The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised (WISC-R) and Standard Raven Progressive Matrices (SPM) Test were evaluated in the context of an intervention/program evaluation study and in terms of a proportionate representation model of test bias. A total of 26,300 boys and girls from 8 different ethnic backgrounds were evaluated over a 9-year period. An intervention based on monitoring o...

The Raven architecture provides object replication for any object system that implements object properties and methods. In the current Windows Internet Explorer implementation, it is particularly tightly integrated with HTML, allowing simple, rapid development of multi-user applications in a web page. Raven uses an XML schema approach to describing the objects to be shared among clients. The XM...

RAVEN is a software tool under development at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) that acts as the control logic driver and post-processing tool for the newly developed Thermo-Hydraylic code RELAP7. The scope of this paper is to show the software structure of RAVEN and its utilization in connection with RELAP-7. A short overview of the mathematical framework behind the code is presented along w...

In the Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization (RISMC) approach we want to understand not just the frequency of an event like core damage, but how close we are (or are not) to key safety-related events and how might we increase our safety margins. The RISMC Pathway uses the probabilistic margin approach to quantify impacts to reliability and safety by coupling both probabilistic (via stoch...

This paper presents a simulation framework for recreating the realistic safety hazard scenarios commonly observed in robotic surgical systems, which can be used to prepare surgical trainees for handling safety-critical events during procedures. The proposed simulation platform is composed of a surgical simulator based on an open-source surgical robot platform, Raven II, integrated with a softwa...