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Transitioning Your Practice to Bankruptcy |
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Wednesday, 05 July 2006 |
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Bankruptcy has been a hot topic in the legal market ever since the dotcom bubble burst in the late 1990's. Although many of the dotcoms disappeared with nary a the quick and public demise of huge international companies such as Enron Corp., WorldCom and Global Crossing increased the amount of... |
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Nuclear Criticality Accidents in the Workplace |
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Friday, 30 June 2006 |
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This paper provides information on nuclear criticality accidents that have occurred since the beginnings of the nuclear industry with primary focus on those that have occurred in the workplace. A nuclear criticality accident is the occurrence of a self-sustaining neutron chain reaction that is... |
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New Technology for Preventing Residential Electrical Fires: Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupters... |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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A new generation of residential electrical branch circuit breakers that incorporates technology to detect and mitigate the effects of arcing faults is described in this paper. Fire loss estimates attributed to electrical wiring and the development of the arc-fault circuit interrupter for the... |
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The Role of Night Vision Equipment in Military Incidents and Accidents |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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It is important to emphasize that the additional capabilities provided by night vision devices also create new risks. Night operations continue to result in significantly more accidents and incidents than their daytime counterparts. Some of these mishaps can be directly attributed to problems in... |
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Risk and Decision-Making in Military Incident and Accident Reporting Systems |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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Incident and accident reporting systems can be used to identify patterns of operator behavior in the causes and mitigation of adverse events. Most attention in this area has, however, focused on the civilian process, healthcare and transportation industries. In contrast, this paper focuses on human... |
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Looking Beyond the Cockpit: Human Computer Interaction in the Causal Complexes of Aviation... |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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Aviation mishaps stem from complex combinations of human error, managerial failure, design flaws, environmental and meteorological factors. Mackie uses 'Causal fields' to denote a subjective frame of reference that guides a search for particular causes. This helps to explain why many investigators... |
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Establishing Public Policy as a Primary Cause of Engineering Failure: Did Market Deregulation... |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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On the 14th August 2003, a complex combination of latent problems and catalytic events led to a domino-effect in which 50 million people suffered some interruption to their power supplies. Losses have been estimated between $5-10 billion. It is, therefore, one of the most wide reaching and serious... |
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The Operational Strengths and Weaknesses of Military Night Vision Equipment |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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An important objective of this short paper is to balance the operational benefits with the potential hazards from using night vision equipment. Personnel might be trained to exploit those advantages, for instance by time operations to maximize the light provided by the waxing and waning of the moon... |
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Incident and Accident Investigation Techniques to Inform Model-Based Design of Safety-Critical... |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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The quality of the design of an interactive safety-critical system can be enhanced by embedding data and knowledge from past experiences. Traditionally, this involves applying scenarios, usability analysis, or the use of metrics for risk analysis. This paper presents an approach that uses the... |
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Developing Greater Flexibility and Resolution in Aviation Accident Analyses |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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Priorities in aviation safety have been largely influenced by a few published safety summaries compiled from the worldwide objective fatal accident data record which tend to aggregate data into broad categories that cross regional, aircraft and operational boundaries. Derived safety concerns are... |
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