This paper describes the use of reliability based procedures in the formulation of structural design standards in Australia. These procedures are the use of formal Monte Carlo simulations and closed form solutions. Examples of applications include aspects of design codes, quality control procedures and building regulations. INTRODUCTION Reliability concepts and procedures, although of intense a...

OBJECTIVE To measure the validity of safety behaviours, safety equipment use and hazards reported on a questionnaire by parents/carers with children aged under 5 years participating in a series of home safety case-control studies. METHODS The questionnaire measured safety behaviours, safety equipment use and hazards being used as exposures in five case-control studies. Responses to questions ...

Globalization has engendered increased complexity in the modern society. This complexity penetrates almost every aspect of our life. In the context of food systems, globalized food supply chains have created greater challenges for assuring food safety, with myriad actors, who are economically, socially and culturally diverse, involved in the production and distribution processes. To manage such...

Objectives: Hospitals and clinical centers are concerned about patient safety. Safety climate is a perceived value of safety in an organization that could improve the safety of workers and patients. The present research was conducted to study the safety climate of patients in the hospitals and rehabilitation centers affiliated to the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences.  M...

In this paper, absorbing Markov chain models are developed to determine the optimum process mean levels for both a single-stage and a serial two-stage production system in which items are inspected for conformity with their specification limits. When the value of the quality characteristic of an item falls below a lower limit, the item is scrapped. If it falls above an upper limit, the item is ...

We consider the inverse problem of recovering locations and amplitudes a collection point sources represented as discrete measure, given M+1 its noisy low-frequency Fourier coefficients. Super-resolution refers to stable recovery when distance Δ between two closest is less than 1/M. introduce clumps model where are closely spaced within several clumps. Under this assumption, we derive non-asymp...