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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"control room"”.
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Instruction in a Nuclear Reactor Control Room Simulator
… to investigate instruction in a nuclear reactor control room simulator. Simulator instruction was studied from several relevant perspectives: the goals of instruction as outlined by Cervaro (1988, 1992), the orientations to adult learning as described by Merriam and Caffarella (1991), and the …
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Performance Evaluation of Control Room HVAC Systems Under Accident Conditions
Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-06T18:42:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Almerico_Franco_MS.pdf: 153813355 bytes, checksum: 97b0597a0b807af26137319d5d544950 (MD5) license.txt: 4813 bytes, checksum: 715c4321821a960fa1a1e91d2ac7ebce (MD5) Previous issue date: 1987
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The human factors of automatic speech recognition in control room systems
… viability of automatic speech recognition for control room systems; with careful system design, automatic speech recognition (ASR) devices can be useful means for human computer interaction in specific types of task. These tasks can be defined as complex verbal activities, such as command and …
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Improving particular components of the audio signal chain: optimising listening in the control room
… efficiency in the acoustical treatment of control rooms Research Area 2: Measuring time alignment errors, testing their impact on the listening experience and providing solutions for time alignment of loudspeakers Research Area 3: Using equalisation for correcting and shaping a …
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Evaluation of virtual reality technology for control engineering
… end of the Virtual Reality hardware for use in Control Engineering. The use of Virtual Reality within Control Engineering could impart significant advantages over traditional control rooms currently in use in factories. The primary one, as rated by most commercial ventures, would be the cost …
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The Remote Measurement of Phase Angle
… with the results displayed in the distribution Control Room, A direct measurement may be significantly in error, due to the time delay in transmission of the measurement signals from substation to Control Room. This error is avoided inthe measurement system described. A test signal, superimposed …
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A holistic investigation of complexity sources in nuclear power plant control rooms
… States is moving to modernize aging power plant control rooms as well as develop control rooms for new reactors. New generation control rooms, along with modernized control rooms, will rely more heavily on automation and computerized procedures. Of particular importance to the Nuclear Regulatory …
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Relamping hotel guestrooms to decrease operating costs
… light fixture usage during periods of guestroom inactivity (inactive is defined as periods after the guest had checked-in but was out of the guestroom). Two treatment rooms and two control rooms were monitored to determine inactivity of the room, usage of light fixtures, and usage of …
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A system framework for non-intrusive monitoring of HMI states for detecting human-in-the-loop error precursors
… industrial human-machine interface (HMI) (e.g., control panels) states. For example, ViDAQ results demonstrate approximately 90% accuracy at 1 meter acquisition distance when reading a multi-dial rotary-style meter. Positive results, coupled with real-world control room settings that offer …
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Development of the detector control system for the ATLAS Level-1 trigger and measurement of the single top production cross section
… thesis discusses the development of the Detector Control System (DCS) for the ATLAS Level-1 Trigger. Microcontroller code has been developed to read out slow controls data from the Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger modules into the wider DCS. Back-end software has been developed for archiving this data. …
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A STAMP model of the Überlingen aircraft collision accident
… Germany. This model focuses on the air traffic controller in charge of the aircraft that collided and the surrounding central environment at ACC Zurich, which was the ATC center controlling the aircraft at the time. First the components in the system are analyzed to determine their roles in the …
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Synchrophasor Based Centralized Remote Synchroscope for Power System Restoration
… at the substation level, which might not control or even predict the after effects of synchronization as soon as the synchronizing breaker between the two buses respective to the two islands is closed. However, with the advent of phasor measurement units (PMUs) providing time synchronized …
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A Quasi-Experimental Approach for Assessing Air Traffic Controller Workload
… operational impacts to the Oceanic Air Traffic Controller (controller) from deficiencies of an Oceanic Data Link system. These deficiencies in the Oceanic Data Link system are in regards to the Computer Human Interface (CHI) and its effect on the cognitive effort and physical task requirements …
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The Effect of Room Environment On Patient Experience In A Prenatal Genetic Counseling Session
… pregnancy clinic randomly assigned to one of two room environments: an experimental room which incorporated positive distractions, or a control room lacking such features. Participants (n=98) completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) for Adults pre- and post-genetic counseling and an …
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Development and optimization of new generation start-up instrumentation systems (SUI) for domestic CANDU reactors
… Start-Up Instrumentation (SUI), both in-core and Control Room equipment, using a new generation of detectors and cables in order to manage obsolescence. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a new systematic approach to SUI installation/replacement procedure development and optimization. …
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Measurement of the Effectiveness of a Decision Support System for Blending Control of Large Scale Coal Mines
… by blending adjustments. There is limited control in variability. With only partial information available, operation controllers blend coal by empirical approximation, trying to keep quality between acceptable ranges in order to avoid penalizations, shipment rejections or even contract …
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A testbed to simulate cyber attacks on nuclear power plants
… and cyber. The increasing usage of digital control and computer systems, for supervisory control and data acquisition in the control rooms of new generation nuclear reactors, has introduced several cyber security issues that must be addressed. One of the most significant problems is that …
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The Effect of Nursing Faculty Presence on Students' Level of Anxiety, Self-Confidence, and Clinical Performance During a Clinical Simulation Experience
… experimental group (Group A) and those in the control group (Group B). Results indicated, however, that there was a statistically significant difference in change in the state anxiety scores from pretest to posttest by group. The nursing faculty's presence in the simulation lab during a …
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Design and performance of resonant cavities for communication systems. The theory and performance of resonant cavities for application-, in mobile radio and base-stations in the VHF and UHF bands are investigated.
… of radio communication channels from a single control room without time-sharing between the various channels. Here it is necessary to operate a number of transmitters and receivers simultaneously from the same base station or mobile unit without interference. The best method to achieve this has …
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