Condemning a laissez faire approach to English Language Teaching (ELT), English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher trainers unanimously agree that the building blocks of teachers’ teaching framework are profoundly influenced by conducting research. Focusing on quantitative research, this study endeavored to scrutinize the impact of the Critical Appraisal of Published Research (CAPR) in undergr...

UNLABELLED We initiated the Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis (CAMDA) conference to stimulate and evaluate the development of advanced data analysis techniques for microarrays. A standard data set has been released for this data analysis challenge. The goal of this challenge is to assess the performance of different analytical methods and at the same time to determine how such met...

The terms hazard and risk are significant building blocks for the organization of risk-based food safety plans. Unfortunately, these terms are not clear for some personnel working in food manufacturing facilities. In addition, there are few examples of active learning modules for teaching adult participants the principles of hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP). In this study, we...

Risk is one of inherent problems in all software systems. It becomes more significant if the software system is operated in a critical system (e.g., air traffic control, nuclear plant). It is because in this domain the software system is expected to be always dependable all the time of its operation. The system is dependable when all its risks are suppressed until acceptable level. Therefore, i...

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) was the product of an extended and well-organized political campaign. In Congress, its passage required a grinding eight-year effort, several modifications to the original proposal, numerous committee hearings, multiple reports by both Houses, political compromises that drew some Democratic support, two unsuccessful attempts to terminate debate in th...

Critical Infrastructure Protection importance is seen as basic element of maintaining vital societal functions from social and economic perspective. In relation to the needs of optimal and relevant protection and security measures selection is necessary to establish framework for Critical Infrastructure protection evaluation in relation and interconnection to risk assessment. This article discu...

The meaning of the terms “security” and “safety” varies considerably from one context to another, leading to potential ambiguities. These ambiguities are very problematic in the critical infrastructure protection domain, which involves multiple actors and engineering disciplines. Avoiding misunderstandings caused by the ambiguities during the early stages of system design and risk assessment ca...

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This paper presents a structured approach for quantitative risk assessment and subsequent safety analysis of the General Atomics urban maglev system that is under development. This approach, broadly based upon industry standards such as U.S. Military Standard 882C, AREMA Communications & Signals Manual Section 17, and CENELEC Norm EN50129, is applicable to any safety-critical system, and has be...

This paper describes the course of the litigation following the Bhopal disaster. It begins with a brief description of the various failures in risk assessment and management that gave rise to the hazardous conditions in Bhopal, and then describes in more detail the resulting legal proceedings. Specifying a number of modest criteria against which the success of the litigation can be measured, th...