... life they built together when the storm came to town When you think like this—when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends ... reality, and, if this distortion is not accepted as reality by individuals, there will be a price to pay socially through marginalization or internally as shame or self-loathing For this reason, ... profound anxiety because they can no longer live under the illusion that things can remain constant and unchanging, and this realization usually occurs as a result of the experience of a significant...
... SAFETY, AND ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM This research was sponsored by the United States Postal Service and was conducted under the auspices of the Safety and Justice Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, ... the processing and delivery process This research should be of interest to policymakers, Congress, and the private sector The RAND Safety and Justice Program This research was conducted under the ... providing documents and other data sources needed for this study We also wish to thank Bruce R Reiter for providing the incident data used in this analysis In addition, we would like to thank John...
... refers to those personnel within this community that deploy to emergency incidents The term first responders was often used by participants in the RAND discussions; we use this term wherever it is ... nation’s emergency responders This report should be of interest to agencies involved in research, implementation, and guidance associated with protecting emergency responders This re- v vi Protecting ... Responders PROTECTING FIREFIGHTERS Firefighters who participated in this study consistently noted that their protective clothing (turnouts or bunker gear) provides excellent flame retardance...
... first computes the set of all users the permission p is a member of, and compares this number with (|U|+1-t) This algorithm has a time complexity of O(NU NP M), where NUis the number of users ... policies not Page of 12 affect its compatibility with SA(or SSoD) policies This enables us to remove them from our consideration This greatly simplifies the problem Theorem Let Q = {e , , e m , f , ... policy sets that are responsible for this inconsistency By definition, we say that a set S is an MIC set, if there does not exist another set S’ responsible for this inconsistency and S’ ⊂ S We have...
... first computes the set of all users the permission p is a member of, and compares this number with (|U|+1-t) This algorithm has a time complexity of O(NU NP M), where NUis the number of users ... policies not Page of 12 affect its compatibility with SA(or SSoD) policies This enables us to remove them from our consideration This greatly simplifies the problem Theorem Let Q = {e , , e m , f , ... policy sets that are responsible for this inconsistency By definition, we say that a set S is an MIC set, if there does not exist another set S’ responsible for this inconsistency and S’ ⊂ S We have...
... requirements) This project will assist growers in adapting to this system through the involvement of a major emerging supermarket chain in Vietnam, Metro Cash and Carry The development of this linkage ... permitted levels (Thach 1999), and are caused by the use of excessive nitrogenous fertilizer (Thi 1999; Thi 2000; Ha and Ali 2005) Despite the heavy pesticide use, significant proportions of crop ... highlight areas for improvement in packaging and package orientation within the truck to reduce temperature build up during transport This research is the first step in mapping the supply chain to determine...
... anyone else associated with this publication, shall be liable for any loss, damage or liability directly or indirectly caused or alleged to be caused by this book Neither this book nor any part may ... need for safety and reliability It is quite common for people to think things are safe before disaster happens; whereas in reality nothing is safe until it is proven to be safe The engineers knew ... to measure the probability of its occurrence It is too common for management to think everything is safe because nothing has gone wrong Unfortunately it is the low cost, easy option that they so...
... should come into contact This is a rare happening and not likely to occur In the past this was usually done for Division areas A hot surface due to a bearing overheating This can be considered ... supervisors left to attend to other business during this time Failure to take corrective action resulted in the discharge of fluids at a blowdown area This was designated as a hazardous area, but a ... responsibility for doing something about the present levels of occupational accidents and disease lies with those who create the risks and those who work with them.’ Section This concerns the obligations...
... system could be made more reliable by adding automatic pressure control This has been shown in Fig 5.3 as an addition With this addition, the system depends on the reliability of the switchgear ... system is more reliable as more things need to fail before there is excessive pressure A logic flow diagram can be used to illustrate the control system (Fig 5.4) This shows that the control logic ... system This, however, cannot improve the risk ranking because a coarse qualitative assessment cannot assess risk reduction To assess the reduction in risk a quantitative procedure has to be used This...
... vans would not help This would also be the case if a flood made all roads impassable This shows that redundancy does not provide reliability if there is a common failure mode This principle is applied ... during the summer then the PAHH is never activated This is a very important point To the operators, the PAHH is useless because it never does anything, and yet it has such significance for pressure ... still be at an acceptable safety level However, from an asset management point of view this may not be acceptable This serves to underline the fact that ensuring safety also safeguards assets so often...
... interesting to note that the probability of failure for this time is: P = − e−0.5 = 0.3934 This means that if a type test on one unit can be completed in this time without a failure then there is a reasonable ... and cover method to construct a section near the Nicoll Highway This section was to be 33 metres deep and 20 metres wide With this method, a large cavity, with retaining concrete walls, is progressively ... ground level to tunnel depth, which in this case was 33 metres As the cavity gets deeper, the retaining walls are braced with a strut-waler support system This system comprises steel bars (struts),...
... that material things have a limited life When nothing goes wrong for decades people and managers become complacent and think that the risk is always the same They need to know that as things approach ... have been to think of how to reduce casualties This will be the order to abandon the platform How to it and how much time was available for evacuation would need to dominate their minds This will ... 1720, or of the Union Carbide managers thinking they could sell everything that they could make To test an idea on a small scale is prudent; scaling up anything can magnify problems out of proportion...
... system could be made more reliable by adding automatic pressure control This has been shown in Fig 5.3 as an addition With this addition, the system depends on the reliability of the switchgear ... system is more reliable as more things need to fail before there is excessive pressure A logic flow diagram can be used to illustrate the control system (Fig 5.4) This shows that the control logic ... system This, however, cannot improve the risk ranking because a coarse qualitative assessment cannot assess risk reduction To assess the reduction in risk a quantitative procedure has to be used This...
... interesting to note that the probability of failure for this time is: P = − e−0.5 = 0.3934 This means that if a type test on one unit can be completed in this time without a failure then there is a reasonable ... and cover method to construct a section near the Nicoll Highway This section was to be 33 metres deep and 20 metres wide With this method, a large cavity, with retaining concrete walls, is progressively ... ground level to tunnel depth, which in this case was 33 metres As the cavity gets deeper, the retaining walls are braced with a strut-waler support system This system comprises steel bars (struts),...
... that material things have a limited life When nothing goes wrong for decades people and managers become complacent and think that the risk is always the same They need to know that as things approach ... have been to think of how to reduce casualties This will be the order to abandon the platform How to it and how much time was available for evacuation would need to dominate their minds This will ... 1720, or of the Union Carbide managers thinking they could sell everything that they could make To test an idea on a small scale is prudent; scaling up anything can magnify problems out of proportion...
... by β-estradiol alone was not accompanied by changes in GAG or collagen content within the disc How can we explain this apparent discrepancy? β-Estradiol had little effect on GAG synthesis, as measured ... fibrocartilaginous pubic symphysis [4-7], this is the first study to demonstrate a similar targeting of fibrocartilaginous tissues from the synovial TMJ, and may implicate this hormone in the pathogenesis ... Connetics Corporation for providing the recombinant human relaxin This research was performed at the University of California, San Francisco This study was supported by grants R29 DE11993 and KO2 DE00458...