Forward Operating Locations

At the beginning of the projects design/planning phase, the Project Leader will complete the Preliminary Environmental, Health Safety Assessment Questionnaire. (See Form—Section 7.1 Appendix D, and forward the completed form to the Environmental, Health Safety Professionals located at the operating location that will be impacted by the change.) If an Environmental, Health Safety Professional is not physically located at the operating location, the completed Questionnaire shall be sent to the Environmental, Health Safety Professional responsible for that location. 

The sniper in the field must take all possible care to avoid the compromising of his position to the enemy. Obviously, an advantage in his favor would be the suppression of flash and muzzle noise to eliminate the enemy from picking up the source of fire. The 5.56 mm suppressor is a device designed to deceive persons forward of the firer as to the exact location of the weapon and its operator. 

As a second example, latex, used to produce latex gloves, is a natural ingredient produced from tree sap, which varies in consistency with weather conditions and geographic location. Each batch of latex must be analyzed to determine its properties and then adjusted to get a more consistent performance. This is an example of a feed-forward control mechanism. One cannot set an operating window on the amount of solids added because it depends on the batch of latex. One cannot set an operating window on the percent solids in the latex initially because nature cannot be controlled. However, a control mechanism can still be established that ensures that the product will consistently meet requirements. Again adjustment mechanisms are required. 

The designer has a number of options to achieve the greatest energy economy with a given number of effects. These are usually associated with the location of the feed in respect to the introduction of the steam. Figure 17 illustrates several methods of operation which are forward feed, backward feed, mixed feed, and parallel feed. 

F. Medical and Environmental Surveillance. To ensure the health of service members, the US routinely collects data about the environment where troops are located or operate. For example, the 520th TAML collected air, water, and soil samples in Bosnia for analysis by USACHPPM. This data help to identify possible health threats to US forces. Both TAML and preventive medicine units, along with Naval and Air Forces units, usually have this mission. All data collected on the environment and the health of the troops during a deployment should be forwarded to USACHPPM for archival. 

With the changes in transportation capabilities and associated concepts of operations, the mobility of modern military forces has a tremendous impact on how a medical unit must function. It is essential that the medical facilities that are operating in close support of highly mobile forces be as mobile as those forces. This imposes severe restrictions on how long they can retain patients in one location. An efficient and flexible plan of evacuation is absolutely essential in order for forward medical facilities to retain mobility. 

The derivative (D) being approximated by the finite-difference operator (FD) to within a truncation error (TE) (or, discretization error). The foregoing mathematical consideration provides an estimate of the accuracy of the discretization of the difference operators. It shows that TE is of the order of (Ax)2 for the central difference, but only O(Ax) for the forward and backward difference operators of first order. Equations (4.41) and (4.42) involve 2 or 3 nodes around node i at x , leading to 2- and 3-point difference operators. Considering additional Taylor series expansions extending to nodes i + 2 and i - 2 etc., located at x + 2Ax and x. — 2Ax, etc., respectively, one may derive 4- and 5-point difference formulas with associated truncation errors. Results summarized in Table 4,8 show that a TE of O(Ax)4 can be achieved in this manner. The penalty for this increased accuracy is the increased complexity of the coefficient matrix of the resulting system of equations. 

Naturally, the quality of these decomposition approaches is considerably affected by the neglected interdependency of the decomposed decisions. Therefore, monolithic, time and volume-continuous MILP formulations are proposed recently to integrate these decisions. These models are straight-forward adaptations of one-to-many approaches. The basic setting is adapted from the one-to-many case (see the previous paragraph), i.e. a serially operated main pipeline is assumed with a refinery at its head and depots along this pipeline. One key alteration is that depots now can receive and inject batches in the pipeline. Most other assumptions are inherited from the one-to-many systems. In particular, the product flow is stiU unidirectional and only one location at a time can inject a batch in the pipeline. ... 

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