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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"critical situations"”.
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Decision-making in critical situations during pregnancy and birth
… and the attitudes of midwives in relation to critical situations during pregnancy and birth. The data collection (Paper I and II) started in year 2000 with interviews with obstetricians (n=14) concerning the meaning of being in ethically difficult situations. During 2002 to 2004 interviews …
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Soldiers as strangers: morally and culturally critical situations during military missions
Contains fulltext : 140647.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Preserving Accuracy and Privacy in Participatory Sensing Systems
… the accuracy of participant contributions in critical situations, and protects participant privacy in critical situations. PS applications are usually open to the public, and receive sensor data from multiple participants. This openness feature of PS applications allows inaccurate and …
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Development of an Oxygen Saturation Monitoring System by Embedded Electronics
… old people, and pregnant women and in other critical situations. </p> <p>This paper discusses the process of calculating the level of oxygen in blood and heart-rate detection using a non-invasive photo plethysmography also called as pulsoximeter using the MSP430FG437 microcontroller (MCU). …
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Posttraumatic growth amongst community volunteers in Indonesia following the Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006
Volunteering in critical situations can involve great distress, which can result in detrimental outcomes, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research has also shown that traumatic experience can result in positive outcomes like posttraumatic growth (PTG) which is expressed among other …
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Zkušenosti běžné veřejnosti s poskytováním laické první pomoci
… only recommended guidelines but also the real situations that lay responders most commonly encounter. The aim of this thesis was to conduct a critical literature review focusing on the experiences of the lay public in providing first aid, including typical situations people encounter and …
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Dynamic-Data Driven Real-Time Identification for Electric Power Systems
… of power systems in order to be prepared for critical situations as they arise. Innovative measurement tools, such as phasor measurement units, can capture not only the slow variation of the voltages and currents but also the underlying oscillations in a power system. Such dynamic data …
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Mechanics of Righting Behavior in the Tarantula (Theraphosidae)
… righting behavior is not only needed in critical situations (falling and landing upside down), but is necessary after molting, when the tarantula must intentionally turn itself upside down in order to shed the old cuticle. In order to describe and analyze the mechanics of this behavior, …
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Risk Propensity, Self-Efficacy and Driving Behaviors Among Rural, Off-Duty Emergency Services Personnel
… requiring rapid, efficient response to critical situations, creating unique safety considerations within the workforce. With an occupational fatality rate notably higher than average, most of which are attributed to vehicular crashes, compounded by risks faced on rural roadways, rural …
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Characterizing and Predicting Tasks at Risk in Team Task Management
… time, leading to personal or team losses in many situations. To support task-doers in completing their tasks, we conducted a mixed-methods study focusing on Microsoft Planner—a collaborative project management tool—to understand how users manage their tasks in a team setting, what challenges they …
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Risk-Aware Planning by Extracting Uncertainty from Deep Learning-Based Perception
… models when applied in real-world and safety-critical situations. This work proposes the use of Bayesian approximations of uncertainty from deep learning in a robot planner, showing that this produces more cautious actions in safety-critical scenarios. The case study investigated is motivated …
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Multimodality: Models, Algorithms, and Applications
… that ensure model reliability and performance in critical situations. We explore adaptive robust ensemble modeling to augment planning and decision-making under uncertainty. Our predictive and prescriptive models have been effectively implemented in factories, museums, and hospitals to tackle …
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Concrete deterioration inspection system for extending the operating life of nuclear power plants
… program will allow the detection of potentially critical situations thereby directing the maintenance and repair activities necessary to insure the feasibility of extended life.
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Automated Vehicles: A Guide for Planners and Policymakers
… to perform at least some aspects of the safety-critical control (like steering, throttling, or braking) without direct human input. As a guide for planners and policymakers, the objective of this thesis is to develop a strong foundation for anticipating the potential impacts resulting from …
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Coordinated Control of Robotic Swarms in Unknown Environments
… priority is slightly modified in order to handle critical situations that can be detected when robots are moving through an unknown environment. In fact, issues can occur when one or more robots got stuck in local minima: a smart strategy to avoid deadlock situations is provided by the author and …
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Reducing Substance Use with Implementation Intentions: A Treatment for Health Risk Behaviors
… intentions, the structured linking of critical situations and alternative, healthier responses, have been shown to improve health-benefiting behaviors such as eating more fruits and vegetables and being more physically active (Sheeran, Milne, Webb, and Gollwitzer, 2005). Here, a …
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Aircrew Adaptive Decision Making: A Cross-Case Analysis
… and (7) in dynamic, time critical situations, the use of adaptive decision-making strategies led to better performance outcomes.
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The Psychological Vest: Trauma, Resiliency, and Posttraumatic Growth Among Police Officers
… decisions in unpredictable and ambiguous critical situations, while held to extremely high moral and ethical standards and intense public scrutiny. Given their level of trauma exposure and risk for traumatic and morally injurious distress, it is vital to better understand psychosocial …
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Minimal Infrastructure Radio Frequency Home Localisation Systems
… sensitive prompts and detection of safety critical situations such as falls. Such pervasive monitoring functionality offers the potential for elders to live at home for longer periods of their lives with minimal human supervision. The focus of this thesis is on the investigation and …
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Human-Intelligence and Machine-Intelligence Decision Governance Formal Ontology
… to systems failure in complex mission critical situations. It is still debatable whether and when human or machine decision capacity should govern or when a joint human-intelligence and machine-intelligence (HI-MI) decision capacity is required in any given decision situation.</p> <p>To …
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