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Incidents of image travel.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Researching Critical Incidents of Transformation
… information. The research focused on critical incidents at or shortly after the workshop that produced significant and meaningful change in the subjects. It also examined the stimuli and the internal processes experienced and reported by the subjects that appear to be most transformative. Its …
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A critical incidents study of differentiation
… During the program and from interviews, 508 incidents were collected. Flanagan's (1954) critical incident technique was used as an evaluation method. Subsequently, the total of 508 reported incidents was reduced to the six major categories. Each major category had its facilitating and …
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Hostage and Barricade Incidents: A Profiling Perspective
… the perpetrators of hostage and barricade incidents. This research is conducted using a questionnaire that is completed at incident conclusion. The questionnaire was provide .. by the FBI as part of a project called HOB AS (Hostage, Barricade, and Suicide). The HOBAS information is …
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Smart monitoring of cybersecurity incidents using machine learning
As cyber crime and Internet usage increase, cybersecurity solutions must evolve rapidly to keep pace. Despite significant advancements, these systems remain imperfect and are used daily by security analysts to monitor large networks, necessitating further improvements. Machine learning has gained …
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Fire Service - Management and Command of Major Incidents
… upon the decision-making processes used at major incidents by the fire service in the United Kingdom rather than the more routine decisions made on the fireground. This partly because major incidents are safety critical events, involving complex technical or communication issues involving large …
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Security Incidents in an Academic Setting: A Case Study.
<p>Academic institutes' networks, like commercial networks, have confidential and valuable information that attracts hackers. From 6 October 2000 to 29 March 2001, the authors collected data on possible attacks and probes against East Tennessee State University's campus network. The number of …
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Methodology for Assessing Learning from Incidents - a Process Industry Perspective
Learning from incidents (from minor disturbances to major accidents) is considered one of the most important ways in the process industry to learn from experiences for improving safety performance. Most companies have a formal incident learning system and considerable resources are used for …
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Debiasing Cyber Incidents – Correcting for Reporting Delays and Under-reporting
… – reporting delays and under-reporting of cyber incidents. Both problems are important to understand the true picture of cyber incident rates. While reporting delays addresses the problem of delays in reporting due to delays in timely detection, under-reporting addresses the problem of cyber …
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Application of Dupont’s Dirty Dozen Framework to Commercial Aviation Maintenance Incidents
<p>This study examined the 12 preconditions for maintenance errors commonly known as the Dirty Dozen and applied them to actual incident and accident data provided by a participating airline (PA). The data provided by the PA consisted of Maintenance Event Reports (MERs) (reactive), Maintenance …
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Surviving sexually oriented bias incidents: The experiences of homosexually active men
Discrimination, persecution, violence and harassment of certain groups are not a new phenomenon. Legend has described the formation of groups who have been known to persecute others, such as Jews, blacks, religious orders, as a means of protecting the dominant views of society. Homosexually active …
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From Fear to Reverie: Incidents in Isolation in the American Wilderness
<p>This thesis looks at Nineteenth Century American adventure narratives to examine the role of the wilderness. This thesis centers on a motif of isolated characters in the wilderness and analyzes the various techniques nineteenth-century authors use to project the psyche of their characters. The …
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Investigating the Dynamics of Bystander Behavior in Child Sexual Abuse Incidents
<p>It is well known that child sexual abuse is a long standing problem in society. Much has been researched concerning the pedophile and other child molesters who choose to sexually exploit minors. Too often the victims of these crimes have been abused over a protracted period—sometimes years. Even …
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Major incidents in the Western Cape, South Africa: a descriptive study
… situations tend to be referred to as Major Incidents. Although a standard understanding of what constitutes a major incident has not been agreed, with the term being interchanged with both mass casualty incident and disaster, for health services a major incident may be considered to be: “any …
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An analysis of health facility preparedness for major incidents in Kampala
Background & Objectives: Major incidents occur commonly in Uganda, but little is known about either local hazards which risk causing major incidents, or health system preparedness for such events. Understanding risk and current preparedness is the first step in improving response. Methods: We …
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Enhancing situational awareness when addressing critical incidents at suburban and rural schools
… response capabilities and protocols for critical incidents in suburban and rural schools. The research also identifies and evaluates emerging technologies that can improve situational awareness, enhance safety, and assist in applying these policies when addressing critical incidents at suburban …
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The Influence of Inequality and Noneconomic Institutions on Cross-National Terrorist Incidents
… terrorism this study connects terrorist incidents on a global scale with economic and noneconomic institutional factors. Whereas most terrorism studies use social disorganization theory or anomie theory as their theoretical bases, this study uses institutional anomie theory (IAT) to …
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Racial Incidents in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study on Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions
… of and subsequent teaching strategies racial incidents that occur in a preschool classroom. The study used focus groups to explore the implications of a teacher’s ability to a) perceive the racial situation; and b) act or intervene through curriculum or other choices to turn the situation into …
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Modelling traffic incidents to support dynamic bus fleets management for sustainable transport
… the fundamental role of bus and traffic incidents in bus-based public transport, a microscopic simulation model capable of modelling the impact of the individual incidents? characteristics on bus operations has been developed and applied to a variety of scenarios.<br/><br/>This research …
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