Flexibility and safety are often considered conflicting concepts because flexibility implies dealing with changing requirements that can, in turn, produce unpredictable and possibly unsafe operating scenarios. Therefore, some in the automotive and avionic system design industry believe that a safety-critical system implies a fully static system in which all operating conditions are completely d...

This paper describes a significant incident involving an infant admitted with Failure To Thrive (FTT), her young mother and the author as the nurse involved. This incident led to reflection on practice and exploration of the effects of making assumptions and premature judgments on the author's nursing actions. Previous experiences, personal beliefs and the influence of colleagues' opinions on t...

This paper proposes a flexible approach to bus media redundancy in Controller Area Network (CAN) fieldbuses, both to improve the bandwidth by transmitting different traffic in different channels or to promote redundancy by transmitting the same message in more than one channel. Specifically the proposed solution is discussed in the context of Flexible Time-Triggered protocol over CAN (FTTCAN) a...

Abstract Because emotion knowledge and language skills each contribute to children's success in school life, the Feeling Thinking Talking (FTT) intervention combines advancement of teachers’ child‐directed conversations. Teachers from centers early childhood education Germany were taught support strategies (LSS) how apply them during talk while reading picture books, reminiscing about emotional...

Risk propositions are specific and modifiable hypotheses that people hold about the outcomes of risk-taking behavior. According to fuzzy trace theory (FTT), risk propositions arise from the subjective and idiosyncratic interpretations that people make about the meaning of risk information, and form the primary basis of decision-making. A community sample of 255 drivers was interviewed at baseli...

During the sleep onset period (SOP), there is a state-specific relative advantage of the right hemisphere (RH). This superiority could either be due to the ability of the RH when operating at levels of reduced arousal, as suggested by its superiority in sustaining vigilance, or it could depend on a more pronounced homeostatic deactivation of the left hemisphere (LH). To evaluate whether variati...

The 3-[(2-furylmethylene)amino]-2-thioxo-1,3-thiazolidin-4-one (FTT) was used as an excellent ionophore in construction of a Zn PVC-based membrane sensor. The best performance was obtained with a membrane composition of 30% poly(vinyl chloride), 62% nitrobenzen (NB), 3% FTT and 5% sodium tetraphenyl borate (TBP). This membrane sensor shows very good selectivity and sensitivity towards Zn over a...