Competing values, tensions and trade-offs in management of nuclear power plants

Competing values, tensions and trade-offs in management of nuclear power plants.

The specific goal of the study is to look how tensions, competing values and trade-offs manifest in the management of nuclear power plants. Second goal is to inspect how existing frameworks, such as Competing Values Framework, can be used to model the tensions. Empirical data consists of thirty interviews that were conducted as part of a NKS study on safety culture in the Nordic nuclear branch....

Democracy Models and Civic Technologies: Tensions, Trilemmas, and Trade-offs

This paper aims at connecting democratic theory with civic technologies in order to highlight the links between some theoretical tensions and trilemmas and design trade-offs. First, it reviews some tensions and ‘trilemmas’ raised by political philosophers and democratic theorists. Second, it considers both the role and the limitations of civic technologies in mitigating these tensions and trile...

Frequency-dependent physiological trade-offs between competing colour morphs.

Evolutionary theory suggests that alternative colour morphs (i.e. genetically controlled phenotypes) may derive similar fitness under frequency-dependent selection. Here we experimentally demonstrate opposing effects of frequency-dependent social environments on plasma hormone levels (testosterone and corticosterone) and immune function between red- and black-headed male morphs of the Gouldian ...

Power/Performance Trade-offs for Direct Networks

High performance portable and space-borne systems continue to demand increasing computation speeds while concurrently attempting to satisfy size, weight, and power constraints. As multiprocessor systems become necessary to satisfy the computational requirements, interconnection network design will become subject to similar constraints. This paper focuses on the design of multiprocessor intercon...

Probabilistic Safety Analysis in Safety Management of Nuclear Power Plants