DEATH CERTIFICATION AND LIFE ASSURANCE.

High Assurance Life and Death

Today’s airspace environment is congested and complex. The enroute environment is a tangled web of victor airways and jet routes connecting the multitude of radio navigation aids sprinkled all over the world and especially the US. The terminal area environments are highly congested with air traffic and requires precise aircraft control by pilots and ground controllers. This situation is even mo...

Quality assurance and certification of software modules

More than 70 electronic control units (ECU’s) serve for safety and comfort functions in a luxury car. Communicating over different bus systems (e.g. CAN class C and B, LIN, MOST, Bluetooth) on one hand many ECU’s are dealing with close loop control functions as well as reactive functions and do have many safety critical hard real time constraints (thus the software is running under a real time ...

Basing Aviation Software Certification on Assurance Cases

Pediatric death certification.

OBJECTIVE To determine location, manner, and physician certifier of pediatric deaths. DESIGN A descriptive study of death certificate information for all child deaths (aged birth through 17 years) for the years 1995 and 1996. SETTING Urban county of more than 780,000 population. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Field of specialty of physician certifiers, location of death, and category of deaths cer...

Syphilis and Life Assurance