Cockpit Resource Management Training: Are Current Instructional Methods Likely to be Successful?

How Effective is Cockpit Resource Management Training ?

The question “Is cockpit resource management effective?” has been asked frequently in the years since 1979 when a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Industry workshop addressed the concepts of crew coordination and effective utilization of all available resources in flight operations (Cooper, White, & Lauber, 1980). If one looks at the proliferation of cockpit resource managem...

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Preliminary results from the evaluation of cockpit resource management training: performance ratings of flightcrews.

The first data from the NASA/University of Texas Crew Performance project on the behavior of flightcrews with and without formal training in Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) is reported. Expert observers made detailed ratings of 15 components of crew behavior in both line operations and in full mission simulations. The results indicate that such training in crew coordination concepts increases...

Sparse Representations Are Most Likely to Be the Sparsest Possible

Given a signal S ∈ RN and a full rank matrix D ∈ RN×L with N < L, we define the signal’s overcomplete representations as all α ∈ RL satisfying S = Dα. Among all the possible solutions, we have special interest in the sparsest one – the one minimizing ‖α‖0. Previous work has established that a representation is unique if it is sparse enough, requiring ‖α‖0 < Spark(D)/2. The measure Spark(D) stan...

Patients Refusing Prehospital Transport Are Increasingly Likely to Be Geriatric

Objective. Elderly patients are becoming an increasingly larger proportion of our population, and there is a paucity of data regarding the epidemiology of geriatric patients refusing transport. Treatment refusal rates range from 5% to 15% in many studies. This study sought to test the hypothesis that geriatric patients constituted an increasing proportion of those persons refusing prehospital t...