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Showing 1 to 20 of 258 for “"High reliability"”.
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TELEMEDICINE PRACTICES IN HIGH-RELIABILITY ENVIRONMENT
… together tackle challenges of telemedicine in high reliability environments. The first paper examines the responses of teams when their technology-mediated routines are disrupted. The need for reliable performance in the face of unpredictable disruptions creates tensions between improvised …
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High reliability performance in Amgen Engineering
… evaluating and then implementing the concepts of High Reliability Organization (HRO). This thesis focuses on using concepts such as HRO to evaluate the Engineering organization at Amgen and then provide tools, frameworks, and recommendations for driving increased reliability and greater process …
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Design of a high reliability transport mechanism
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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High-reliability architectures for networks under stress
… we develop a methodology for architecting high-reliability communication networks. Previous results in the network reliability field are mostly theoretical in nature with little immediate applicability to the design of real networks. We bring together these contributions and develop new …
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Design techniques for high-reliability complex electronic systems
… digital systems. This kind of delegation makes reliability a major requirement for digital systems. The activities to achieve system reliability include validation, verification, testing of the single components and of the entire system, diagnosis of the components, system hardening. These …
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Novel Design Solutions for High Reliability RF MEMS Switches
… (ESA) Contract No. ITT AO/1-5288/06/NL/GLC ?High Reliability Redundancy Switch?. The main purpose of the project is the design and realization of high-reliability RF MEMS switches for satellite payload redundancy networks. Up to now, the common satellite architecture implements redundancy …
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Reconfigurable Accelerators Design Methods for High Reliability Space Applications
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High reliability adhesive joining of metal and composite components
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2001.
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Lead-free solders for high-reliability applications: high-cycle fatigue studies
… investigation has been carried out into their reliability for applications exposed to vibration in service. Aerospace applications, which have service lives measured in decades, are of particular pertinence. The present work shows the development and validation of a method for testing small, …
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Organizational Learning and Situated Identities : A Study of Change in "High Reliability" Organizations.
… of major organizational change within two 'high reliability' organizations (HROs), a British nuclear power station operator and a Canadian electricity grid operator. Situated learning refers to learning that occurs in the everyday experience of social practice, and identity is described as a …
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Team Member Characteristics Contributing to High Reliability in Emergency Response Teams Managing Critical Incidents
… (ERT) member characteristics that contribute to High Reliability performance during patient care resuscitation events or other Critical Incident Management Situations are poorly understood. Findings from this study describe individual characteristics that experienced interprofessional ERT members …
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Mixed-Method Cultural Assessment: High Reliability Characteristics in United States Pathology Residency and Pathologists’ Assistant Programs
… studies described error reduction occurring in high reliability organizational (HRO) settings such as aviation and nuclear power plants. The HRO process consists of five principles: a preoccupation with failure, sensitivity to operations, deference to expertise, reluctance to simplification, and …
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Are we hoping for a bounce? A study on resilience and human relations in a high reliability organization
… resilience factors associated with a military high reliability organization (HRO). The data measuring organizational resilience was gathered from surveys aboard a US Naval vessel in March and October of 2015. A review of the surveys determined that there were potential differences in levels of …
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A study of turnaround efforts in high-poverty schools: characteristics of High Reliability Organizations that determine why some efforts succeed and others fail
… case study design. Using the characteristics of High Reliability Organizations, the researcher used an interview guide that was developed by the researcher to interview 10 participants who consisted of teachers, principals, and their immediate district-level supervisors, as well as reviewed …
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Identifying and enabling core management competencies and compliance factors in high reliability organisations : a study in organisational risk management psychology and training: A small n modified grounded theory qualitative analysis
High reliability entities governed by statutory regulations are required to comply with safety guidelines and specifications. When fatalities or serious injuries occur in otherwise preventable accidents these entities are routinely exonerated from any responsibility by claiming to have ‘systemic …
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Reliability of Fatigue Measures in an Overhead Work Task: A Study of Shoulder Muscle Electromyography and Perceived Discomfort
This study was conducted to measure the reliability of fatigue measures in an intermittent overhead work task. Fatigue measures included several EMG based parameters and subjective discomfort ratings through use of the Borg CR-10 scale. This study was part of a larger existing study that simulates …
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A Network Surveillance Mechanism to Support Partitioned Operation in Distributed Database Systems
… database systems is designed to achieve high reliability and availability. In case of network partitioning, the mutual consistency of data may become doubtful unless the transaction processing mechanism puts appropriate limits on its operation.
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Enabling reliable control with communication constraints
… autonomous agents be wireless. To ensure system reliability, and, most importantly, safety, the communication networks that control these autonomous systems will face strict latency and reliability requirements. Wireless resources are fundamentally scarce, and this scarcity is further compounded …
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Probabilistic engineering analysis and design under time-dependent uncertainty
… This dissertation aims to help build high reliability into products under time-dependent uncertainty by addressing two research issues. The first one is to efficiently and accurately predict the time-dependent reliability while the second one is to effectively design the time-dependent …
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The Development of a Model for Behavioral Observation Performance of Instructional Personnel
… to reduce subjectivity and bias and yield high reliability and agreement among raters. Procedure. There were two urban and one rural school districts that participated in field testing the model for evaluating instructional personnel. After the instruments were developed, each district …
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