This research project was designed to investigate cultural and cognitive issues related to the work of nuclear power plant operators during their time on the job in the control room and during simulator training (emergency situations), in order to show how these issues impact on plant safety. The modeling of the operators work deals with the use of operational procedures, the constant changes i...

Increasingly, renewable energy comprises a larger share of global energy production. Across the western United States, public lands are being developed to support renewable energy production. Where there are conflicts with threatened or endangered species, translocation can be used in an attempt to mitigate negative effects. For the threatened Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), we sou...

Conflicts identification among non-functional requirements is often identified intuitively which impairs conflict analysis practices. This paper proposes a new model to identify conflicts among non-functional requirements. The proposed model uses the matrix mechanism to identify the quality based conflicts among non-functional requirements. The potential conflicts are identified through the map...

We give the nuclear analogue of Dadarlat’s characterization of exact quasidiagonal C∗-algebras. Specifically, we prove the following: Theorem 0.1. Let A be a unital separable simple C∗-algebra. Then the following conditions are equivalent: i) A is nuclear and quasidiagonal. ii) A has the stabilization principle. iii) If π : A → M(A ⊗ K) is a unital, purely large ∗-homomorphism, then the image π...

Public sector corruption has long-term and damaging effects that are deep and broad. Addressing corruption relies on understanding the drivers that precipitate acts of corruption and developing educational programs that target areas of vulnerability. This paper provides an innovative approach to explore the nature of corruption by drawing on the perceptions and ideas of a group of public servan...

The Sleeping Beauty problem has spawned a long debate between Thirders and Halfers which centers on their conflicting answers to the question “What is Sleeping Beauty’s credence in the event that the coin lands Heads?” In this paper, we show that the conflicting answers that Thirders and Halfers provide are the results of conflicting assumptions that each group makes. We lay out those assumptio...