This paper identifies a practical approach to identifying system criticality, which is integral to the process of certifying UAS software. System criticality must be established by identifying potential failure scenarios and mechanisms, and their impact on the safe operation of the UAS. This paper will consider inherent risks and failures...
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 either unplanned or behaves unexpectedly. Only...
In the past three months alone, a torrent of high profile security breaches at enterprises and universities have compromised more than half a billion personal records exposing them to potential fraud. Amidst this backdrop, Application Security, Inc. (www.appsecinc.com) today announced its executives will participate in seven industry- and user-oriented...
Business processes are evaluated to determine their criticality to a business unit that can prioritize the business functions to determine which require a contingency plan and which can be ignored and eliminated. The business risk analysis process inherent in this approach focuses on two types of information to compute a...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WRITTEN over four centuries ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to have a universal appeal for their absorbing stories (of kings, queens and dukes; of battles, rivalries and political turmoil of the time, of love, honour and betrayal), and also for the sensitive, rich, and eloquent use of...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS THE world moves towards ubiquitous, seamless data connectivity to support a global economy, most people will have high quality access to almost any information, anywhere, anytime, on any device. However, as barriers to access fall away, one of the key challenges organisations will...
In our daily life, we generally expect the transport system to be efficient, safe, and reliable. However, there exist several sources of uncertainties in the transportation system both on demand and supply sides. With a constant growth in economic activities most urban transport networks currently operate at...
As the problem of full transit vehicles is encountered daily by passengers in most of the big cities, previous research evaluated the consequence of overcrowding in terms of on-board crowding and passengers not being able to board with full vehicles. The impact of overcrowding in the real...
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREER COUNSELLORS NATIONAL CAREER CONFERENCE, HOBART, 26-28 March 2008 A distinguished assembly of workplace experts and academics will meet to confront the latest issues facing employees and employers around the world. The central theme of the 2008 AACC conference is Career Landscape:...
John Orr Crites, one of the leading vocational psychologists of the 20th century, succumbed to pneumonia on March 15, 2007. With his passing, counsel ling psychology lost an exemplar of its scientist-practitioner model. Jack's scholarly contributions and leadership substantially advanced vocational psychology both as a distinct discipline...
Sightron, Inc. producers of high-quality affordable optics, has joined forces with the NRA to help them with their largest membership drive in history. Consumers who purchase any Sightron scope excluding SI models will receive a free 1-year membership to the National Rifle Association. Current NRA members will receive...
Just wanted to comment about how much I loved the June issue. As a vegan, I have found in the past there would be only a few recipes I could use, and very rarely would there be a dessert recipe I could make without having to figure out my own...
IF YOUR BODY MASS INDEX BMI falls within the normal range (between 18.5 and 25), you might assume you're protected against obesity-related diseases. But in a new study presented at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session, doctors found that more than half of American women with a normal...
When it comes to bodybuilding training, you're often faced with a panoply of decisions: black tank top or white, Metallica's Ride the Lightning or Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, creatine monohydrate or creatine ethyl ester. But one of the most critical predicaments when it comes to training is deciding between opting...
Of all levels of schooling, the high school receives by far the most criticism. There are continuous innovations recommended in journal articles, textbooks, and speeches at state/national conventions on ways to improve the secondary level of schooling. At one teacher education convention, the speaker was criticizing the American high school...
Employers seek job candidates with critically thinking abilities, great written and oral communication skills, and honesty, among other characteristics. Research supports the need to develop those qualities and business faculty are charged with the task of developing and improving them. As a result faculty are continually searching for new and...
Harry Redknapp had certainly seen enough. The Portsmouth manager last night attacked Fabio Capello's England tactics, accusing the Italian of "killing" Steven Gerrard and overseeing "one of the worst performances I have seen" from the national team. "The second half was diabolical," Redknapp, who was working as a television summariser,...
MADRID, Spain -- A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead -- Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio AP -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday after having a brain hemorrhage, a Cleveland Clinic official said. Tubbs Jones, 58, died at 6:12 p.m....
MIDVALE -- A man police say is responsible for a hit-and-run accident earlier this week that injured two people has an extensive criminal history including multiple arrests for DUI. Police say Neil Delynn Lewis' pickup truck hit two people on a sidewalk at State Street near 7100...
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