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The purpose of this paper is to define and determine quantifiable measurements for head‐tilt and pilot fatigue by detecting and measuring the six degrees of freedom (6DOF) head motion of test subjects performing flight simulation operations.

First, a flight simulator that met the needs of the research project was designed and fabricated. Second, the tracking system was tested and deemed operable through a series of shakedown runs. Then, the head motion of test subjects was detected and measured using infrared technology. Finally, the data collected were used to establish definitions for head‐tilt and pilot fatigue.

Head‐tilt and pilot fatigue were defined and evidence of their presence was observed in the head motion data.

The goal of this research is to reduce aircraft accidents upon landing and take‐off for general, commercial, and military aviation to include unmanned aerial vehicles.

Literature which covers the definition and measurement of a pilot's head motion in flight is unclear. By defining the optokinetic phenomena of head‐tilt and precisely measuring pilot head motion and developing and using tests of pilots based on the results to screen for head‐tilt, the number of land aircraft veering off runways during both landing and takeoff can be reduced. Also, the number of aircraft overshooting the flight deck on an aircraft carrier can be reduced, as well as fewer crashes upon landing of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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On April 2, 1987, IBM unveiled a series of long‐awaited new hardware and software products. The new computer line, dubbed the Personal Systems 30, 50, 60, and 80, seems destined to replace the XT and AT models that are the mainstay of the firm's current personal computer offerings. The numerous changes in hardware and software, while representing improvements on previous IBM technology, will require users purchasing additional computers to make difficult choices as to which of the two IBM architectures to adopt.

The implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has facilitated the development of an innovative and integrated delivery care system, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). It is timely, to identify how health care managers in rural health clinics (RHCs) are responding to the ACO model. This research examines RHC managers’ perceived benefits and barriers for implementing ACOs from an organizational ecology perspective.

A survey was conducted in spring of 2012 covering the present RHC network working infrastructures – (1) Organizational social network; (2) organizational care delivery structure; (3) ACO knowledge, perceived benefits, and perceived barriers; (4) quality and disease management programs; and (5) health information technology (HIT) infrastructure. One thousand one hundred sixty clinics were surveyed in the United States. They cover eight southeastern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) and California. A total of 91 responses were received.

RHC managers’ personal perceptions on ACO’s benefits and knowledge level explained the most variance in their willingness to join ACOs. Individual perceptions appear to be more influential than organizational and context factors in the predictive analysis.

The study is primarily focused in the Southeastern region of the United States. The generalizability is limited to this region. The predictors of RHCs’ participation in ACOs are germane to guide the development of organizational strategies for enhancing the general knowledge about the innovativeness of delivering coordinated care and containing health care costs inspired by the Affordable Care Act.

RHCs are lagged behind the growth curve of ACO adoption. The diffusion of new knowledge about pros and cons of ACO is essential to reinforce the health care reform in the United States.

The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with information literacy including instruction in the use of information resources, research, and computer skills related to retrieving, using, and evaluating information. This review, the twenty‐second to be published in Reference Services Review, includes items in English published in 1995. After 21 years, the title of this review of the literature has been changed from “Library Orientation and Instruction” to “Library Instruction and Information Literacy,” to indicate the growing trend of moving to information skills instruction.

The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the RSR review column, “Recent Reference Books,” by Frances Neel Cheney. “Reference Books in Print” includes all additional books received prior to the inclusion deadline established for this issue. Appearance in this column does not preclude a later review in RSR. Publishers are urged to send a copy of all new reference books directly to RSR as soon as published, for immediate listing in “Reference Books in Print.” Reference books with imprints older than two years will not be included (with the exception of current reprints or older books newly acquired for distribution by another publisher). The column shall also occasionally include library science or other library related publications of other than a reference character.

The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with orientation to library facilities and services, instruction in the use of information resources, and research and computer skills related to retrieving, using, and evaluating information. This review, the sixteenth to be published in Reference Services Review, includes items in English published in 1989. A few are not annotated because the compiler could not obtain copies of them for this review.

The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with information literacy including instruction in the use of information resources, research, and computer skills related to retrieving, using, and evaluating information. This review, the eighteenth to be published in Reference Services Review, includes items in English published in 1991. A few are not annotated because the compiler could not obtain copies of them for this review.