Entrez 1 is a data retrieval system developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) that provides integrated access to a wide range of data domains, including literature, nucleotide and protein sequences, complete genomes, three-dimensional structures, and more. Entrez includes powerful search features that retrieve not only the exact search results but also related record...

Marck Robinson PowerData Corporation [email protected] Pamela Ey SOS Intl [email protected] ABSTRACT Motivation – Investigations of large-scale outages in the North American interconnected electric system often attribute the causes to three T’s: Trees, Training and Tools. To document and understand the mental processes used by expert operators when making critical decisions, a naturalistic deci...

The concept of power is a core term in political science, and an important one for other social sciences as well. According to Elster it is “the most important single idea in political theory, comparable perhaps to utility in economics” (Elster 1976, 249). Indeed political science can be conceived mainly as the study of power phenomena (Mokken and Stokman 1976, 47). Yet the discipline seems to ...

Most of economics can be summarised in four words: " People respond to incentives. " The rest is commentary. INTRODUCTION The organisation of the workplace is evolving. In many industries, mass production by large, vertically integrated, hierarchically organised firms is being replaced with more flexible forms of both internal organisation and industrial structure (Brynjolfsson & Mendelson, 199...

The delegation of administrative decision-making powers is explored in the following pages as a legal technique to enhance co-operation between politics and administration, both within the policy-making and in the domains of implementation of policy and law. Delegation, as a legal instrument, also has organisational and managerial consequences insofar as it suggests certain organisational patte...

Physician orders, the concrete manifestation of clinical decision making, are enhanced by the distribution of clinical expertise in the form of order sets and corollary orders. Conventional order sets are top-down distributed by committees of experts, limited by the cost of manual development, maintenance, and limited end-user awareness. An alternative explored here applies statistical data-min...

In this paper we describe ongoing research in the areas of maintenance and warranty decision-making for gas turbines used in power plants. We first frame the problem within a larger context of equipment monitoring, diagnostics and maintenance. We then focus on describing and modeling economic issues related to warranty maintenance service from the perspectives of both the consumer (power plant ...

Objective The aim of the present study was to identify online resources community members may access to inform themselves about their legal duties and rights in end-of-life decision making.Methods Resource mapping identified online resources that members of the public in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland are likely to identify, and assessed the ease or difficulty in locating them. Resour...

The more important governmental cooperation and bureaucratic involvement become in ESDP, the more pressing becomes the issue of democratic control of executive cooperation. This article starts from the argument that parliamentary involvement in decisionmaking is of central importance for ensuring the democratic quality of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). It uses the notion of a mult...

The study discusses the inclusion of health in the evaluation of environmental impacts to allow actors potentially involved in decision-making to determine the need and technological and geographic adequacy of projects ahead of implementation. The point of departure was a request from the Public Attorney to the Federal University of Ceará to analyze the project of a coal-fired power plant to be...