Executive Summary Ensuring safety requires reducing the risk of incidents, faults and failures that can disrupt normal operations. This effort goes far beyond simply installing fail-safe controllers or a safety instrumented system. In fact, to mitigate the risk of serious incidents that can cause injury to personnel, equipment and the environment, it is important to consider safety from all asp...

a comprehensive review of fatigue behavior and fatigue design of heavy section wind turbine castings made of ductile iron en-gjs-400-18-lt is performed. common metallurgical defects that are affecting fatigue behavior of this material were studied. review of different researches on quantitative effect of chunky graphite and micro structure on fatigue behavior of en-gjs-400-18-lt was performed. ...

1 Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University, Engineering Technology, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] 2 Dr. Barbara Sylvester, Western Washington University, University Writing Program, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] Abstract -In teaching the Engineering Technology Department’s new ethics course, instructors from Western Washington University’s Writing Program and ...

Objective: To use agent-based modeling to examine how peer influence in a social network affects behavior change among teenage drivers. Background: Teenagers are involved in more fatal driving crashes than any other age group. A solution to the problem is to utilize both feedback systems and online social networks to promote safe driving behavior. Methods: Using a combination of intention (from...

Abstract: In this project we will explore the properties of stochastic matrices in both the real and the finite fields. We first explore what properties 2  2 stochastic matrices in the real field have and then exam if they hold in the finite fields. We will prove how, given the conditions of a finite field, properties hold or fail to hold. We will extend our scope to 3  3 stochastic matrices ...

The long-term goal of this program is to develop a technology to allow EOD technicians to interrogate an electronically safe and armed munition and determine the electrical status of these devices. Determining the electrical status of the mechanism will provide EOD technicians additional options to consider when determining the appropriate render safe procedure to use against these threat devices.

There has been considerable work in AI on decisiontheoretic planning and planning under uncertainty. Unfortunately, all of this work suffers from one or more of the following limitations: 1) it relies on very simple models of actions and time, 2) it assumes that uncertainty is manifested in discrete action outcomes, and 3) it is only practical for very small problems. For many real world proble...

A action is often criticized for causing reverse discrimination and lowering the qualifications of those hired under the policy. However, the magnitude of such adverse effects depends on whether the best suited candidate is hired absent the policy. Indeed affirmative action may compensate for the distortion discrimination imposes on the selection of candidates. This paper asks whether affirmati...

[Purpose] To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the Safe Driving Behavior Measure and the Driving Habits Questionnaire in community-dwelling older self-drivers. [Subjects and Methods] Forty-five older participated in this study, to measure the Safe Driving Behavior Measure and the Driving Habits Questionnaire. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated along with cut-off values and ov...