reliability and risk prediction

... 1.3 RELIABILITY AND RISK PREDICTION 1.4 ACHIEVING RELIABILITY AND SAFETY-INTEGRITY 1.5 THE RAMS-CYCLE 1.6 CONTRACTUAL PRESSURES jargon Understanding terms and ... hazard assessment The history of reliability and safety technology 1.3 RELIABILITY AND RISK PREDICTION System modelling, by means of failure mode analysis and fault tree analysis methods, has ... a reliability model is far more valuable than the numerical outcome 6 Reliability, Maintainability and Risk Figure 1.1 Figure 1.1 illustrates the problem of matching a reliability or risk prediction...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 17:20

... 1.3 RELIABILITY AND RISK PREDICTION 1.4 ACHIEVING RELIABILITY AND SAFETY-INTEGRITY 1.5 THE RAMS-CYCLE 1.6 CONTRACTUAL PRESSURES jargon Understanding terms and ... hazard assessment The history of reliability and safety technology 1.3 RELIABILITY AND RISK PREDICTION System modelling, by means of failure mode analysis and fault tree analysis methods, has ... a reliability model is far more valuable than the numerical outcome 6 Reliability, Maintainability and Risk Figure 1.1 Figure 1.1 illustrates the problem of matching a reliability or risk prediction...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 19:20

... 1.3 RELIABILITY AND RISK PREDICTION 1.4 ACHIEVING RELIABILITY AND SAFETY-INTEGRITY 1.5 THE RAMS-CYCLE 1.6 CONTRACTUAL PRESSURES jargon Understanding terms and ... hazard assessment The history of reliability and safety technology 1.3 RELIABILITY AND RISK PREDICTION System modelling, by means of failure mode analysis and fault tree analysis methods, has ... a reliability model is far more valuable than the numerical outcome 6 Reliability, Maintainability and Risk Figure 1.1 Figure 1.1 illustrates the problem of matching a reliability or risk prediction...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 17:20

... of Reliability and Safety Technology 1.1╇ Failure Data 1.2╇ Hazardous Failures 1.3╇ Reliability and Risk Prediction 1.4╇ Achieving Reliability and ... guidance document (SR/24, Risk Assessment Techniques) xxi PAR T Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs CHAPTE R The History of Reliability and Safety Technology Safety /Reliability engineering ... these predictions has therefore increased and Chapter examines the range of data sources and addresses the problem of variability within and between them The value and accuracy of reliability prediction, ...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 22:20

... curve in risk prediction Circulation 2007, 116:e133 Pepe MS, Janes H, Gu JW: Letter by Pepe et al regarding article, ‘Use and misuse of the receiver operating characteristic curve in risk prediction ... Use and misuse of the receiver operating characteristic curve in risk prediction Circulation 2007, 115:928-935 Janket SJ, Shen Y, Meurman JH: Letter by Janket et al regarding article, ‘Use and ... Media, LCC; 2009 doi:10.1186/cc9282 Cite this article as: Vasilevskis EE, et al.: Delirium and mortality risk prediction: a story in evolution Critical Care 2010, 14:449 ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... Xu B and Song J Prevalence and risk factors of overactive bladder syndrome in Fuzhou Chinese women Neurourol Urodyn 2006; 25:717 Teleman PM, Lidfeldt J, Nerbrand C, Samsioe G, Mattiasson A and ... Overactive bladder: prevalence, risk factors and relation to stress incontinence in middle-aged women BJOG 2004; 111:600 Coyne K, Margolis M, Zyczynski T, Elinoff V and Roberts RG Validation of ... there was a statistically significant association between OAB and hepatitis (p=0.03, OR=2.2) See Table Table Prevalence of OAB, LUTS and OAB subtypes DISCUSSION The prevalence of OAB in men has...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:35

... gestational age, height and weight of the neonate, and personal identifiers for both mother and child [24] Use of loratadine, other antihistamines, IVF drugs, antidiabetics and epileptics As a part ... 1, 1996 (Aarhus County) and January 1, 1998 (Ringkoebing and Viborg counties) Drugs sold over the counter are not available in these Prescriptions databases Among cases and controls, prescriptions ... (95% CI 0.0-3.8) and for the entire pregnancy 0.5 (95% CI 0.0-2.7) The adjusted ORs for other antihistamines were 1.1 (95% CI: 0.2-3.7) and 0.7 (95% CI: 0.1-2.3), respectively The risk point estimates...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:09

... Davies, 1983) and predicative validity, where test scores are correlated with some future criterion of performance (Bachman and Palmer, 1981) 2.3.3 Reliability and Validity Reliability and validity ... appears inadequate reliability with the rather low reliability coefficient (0.53) and low difficulty and discriminability index and is not valid enough with many weak items and unbalanced parts ... Rt is expressed as a number ranging between and 1.00, with r = revealing no reliability and r = 1.00 indicating perfect reliability An acceptable reliability coefficient must not be below 0.90,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05

... the Riskometer, in chapter of Extremes and Integrated Risk Management (London: Risk Books) Mina J., and J.Y Xiao (2001), Return to RiskMetrics: The Evolution of a Standard, Discussion paper, RiskMetrics ... Fung and Hsieh (2002) and Mitchell and Pulvino (2001) who investigated the performance characteristics of trend-following and risk- arbitrage strategies, respectively More recently, Agarwal and ... insight and extend our understanding of hedge fund risks to a wide range of equity oriented hedge fund strategies They characterised the risk exposures of hedge funds using buy -and- hold and option-based...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 20:00

... downstream and closure of a valve upstream Some results by Ramos et al are available for the first case and guide vane closure of a turbine, and they were obtained in lab conditions and compared ... results being QR and HR the rated conditions for the discharge and net head of the turbine Figure Comparison between experimental data and numerical simulation of a turbine overspeed and guide vane ... river flow and erosion, groundwater and solute transport in soils More than sixty papers on National/International Proceedings and on National/International Journals Owner of national and international...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... interpretation of the available information and their unique sense of risk and return Risk in the Decision-Making Process Analyzing risk requires an understanding of the types of uncertainty that ... time and resources Quality Decisions and Risk Management The quality of an organization’s risk management is the degree to which we understand the uncertainties (risks, implications) of future events ... given the resources and information available at the time of the decision Decision Process To fully understand the risks associated with a decision, and therefore to manage risks most effectively,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15

... Project appraisal and risk management for the public sector A IDEA AND PROJECT DEFINITION KEY QUESTIONS: a Where is the demand? b is this project consistent with company's expertise and strategy? ... appraisal and risk management for the public sector OUTPUT OF MODULE – Technology and life of project – Quantities of inputs by type needed – For investment and operation – Labour required by type and ... strategy? A MARKETING OR DEMAND MODULE Study of sources of demand, nature of market, prices and quantities Major distinction between domestic versus internationally traded goods and services For internationally...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:15

... trade and those O'Neil trades So before you get too excited about a four-week-plus flag or cup -and- handle breakout in a strong RS and EPS stock in a leading group, check these five features and ... on the day of the breakout to show significant demand is coming in Demand volume at least 20% above the 50-day MA of volume on your breakouts and your odds will improve Strong volume can also ... range began When a stock breaks out in price and also in its Relative Strength vs other stocks, it is much more likely to be a true market leader and is more likely to follow through (See Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 13:20

... health risk factors and their role in the current and future disease burden globally and in specific countries and regions His research on risk factors focuses on environmental risks, smoking, and ... Sex, and Age in the World, 2001 CRA Risk Factors, Exposure Variables, Theoretical-Minimum -Risk Exposure Distributions, and Disease Outcomes Distribution of Risk Factor-Attributable Mortality and ... Age and Sex Joint Contributions (PAFs) of the Leading Risk Factors to Mortality and Burden of Disease, by Region Individual and Joint Contributions of Risk Factors to 10 Leading Diseases and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... the report of condition: cash on hand, funds due from the Federal Reserve Bank, exchanges and demand cash items, and other items in cash.) • Deposit Rates and Risk The critical variables for this ... rate and gross losses and the deposit rate and real estate loans None of the other 14 coefficients were significant He thus concluded that no significant correlation between bank rates and bank risk ... total demand deposits His bank risk variables included four measures of gross earnings, two measures of investments as percentages of total assets, and six measures of losses and loans and securities...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... editor, Syntax and Semantics: Discourse and Syntax, pages 337354 Academic Press, New York D Litman and J Allen 1990 Discourse processing and commonsense plans In P R Cohen, J Morgan, and M E Pollack, ... discourse by placing a boundary at all and only those locations with a subject boundary Such an algorithm has 100% recall and precision, and 0% fallout and error For each narrative, our human ... available to the human subjects, between 3.1 and 3.2 Because 3.1 consists of multiple FICs (6 and 7) the algorithm can and does assign boundaries here: (6,7) and (7,8) To normalize the algorithm output,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... variation (CV) and standard deviations (SD) between the first and second 6-MWT (T1–T2), the second and third 6-MWT (T2–T3), the third and fourth 6-MWT (T3–T4), and the fourth and fifth 6-MWT ... The mean CV and SD, respectively, reached 4.0% and 5.0 beats·minϪ1 (Table 3) On the other hand, no HR difference was noted between tests and performed in the morning and tests 2, 4, and performed ... 6-MWT, VO2 and HR were noted every 30 s The reliability and intensity of the 6-MWT were assessed using the mean ˙ VO2 and HR values recorded during the last minute of the walking test Before and after...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... Discussion 23 Sexual debut and sexual experience 23 Risk factors and risk environments for children 23 3.5.1 Risk environments 24 3.5.2 Care and protection 25 3.5.3 Knowledge and communication about ... infection over and above vertical transmission These were: risk environments, care and protection of children and knowledge and communication about sex and HIV/AIDS For ethical and legal reasons, ... HIV infection: Risk environments; Care and protection of children; and Knowledge and communication about sex and HIV/AIDS For ethical and legal reasons as well as to avoid the risk of secondary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... different for all the MOS subscales and the VAS scale (Tables and 4) Discussion We performed the feasibility and reliability of the MOS to measure HRQoL among HIV positive and HIV negative patients with ... managers and clinicians to understand the functioning and well being of TB patients so that individual patient specific needs are addressed to attain the best clinical or treatment outcome, and thus ... of months with Isoniazid and Ethambutol (EH) The protocol was approved by the Faculty of Medicine, Research Ethics Committee and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology Participants...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20