Six smiths and safety

How Many Different "John Smiths", and Who Are They?

In this work we propose three unsupervised measures to automatically identify the number of distinct entities a given ambiguous name refers to in a corpus. We experiment with 22 artificially created name conflations and observe that the measure (PK2) formulated as the ratio of two successive clustering criterion function values outperforms the other two measures. We also describe a method to as...

Six-year perspectives on the safety and tolerability of nefazodone.

Six Sigma and Employees Safety – a Novel Approach

Human beings are capable of operating effectively in a limited range of environmental conditions, with combination of temperature, humidity, air speed and work rate. Safety primarily is the legal and moral obligation of employees. Employees must know the uses of safety measures and it reduces industrial unrest, indiscipline, injuries and major accidents. In the current scenario, even with the a...

Safety Management in a Manufacturing Company: Six Sigma Approach

The manufacturing company under consideration recorded the high accident rates for last few years. These accidents cause the organization the heavy man-day loss, the production loss and heavy costs of insurance. The objective of health and safety department at the manufacturing company was to set and improve accidents prevention system. The paper presents how does the six-sigma technique will h...

Six mental skills for strengthening soft-tissue safety.

Don’t be soft on soft-tissue injuries. These problems—typically, strains and sprains to the back, shoulders, neck, and other areas—plague numerous organizations and, even worse, often escalate as workforces age. Initially, many companies try to injury-proof the workplace, from ergonomic design fixes to job redesign/ rotation. These definitely help but, regrettably, often to a plateau. In last m...