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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"human factor"”.
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HUMAN FACTOR RISK MANAGEMENT FOR MARITIME PILOTAGE OPERATIONS
… occurring on a worldwide basis as a result of human error have not ceased to transpire, despite advances in technology and a significant set of international conventions, regulations, and recommendations to reduce them. Existing studies reveal that previous maritime risk and safety assessment …
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The School Level Human Factor in Education Reforms
… in conduct of reforms is a function of a Human Resource Strategy integrating performance improvement decisions to overall mission of reforms. Such integration was so weak in this case, that management and development of teachers were unsystematically executed; definition, specification, …
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The Human Factor in Supply Chain Risk Management
In a three paper essay series we address the human impact in SCRM from the microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. First, using a positivist theory building approach, we synthesize behavioral risk management and supply chain risk management theory to propose behavioral supply chain risk …
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The School Level of Human Factor in Education Reforms
… in conduct of reforms is a function of a Human Resource Strategy integrating performance improvement decisions to overall mission of reforms. Such integration was so weak in this case, that management and development of teachers were unsystematically executed; definition, specification, …
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Fatigue: Investigation of a Human Factor for Regional Airline Pilots
… crew schedules that are not compatible with human limitations; Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) that have not evolved with the advancement of aircraft performance and the public demand for 24 hour availability of flights; and poor personal habits. An analysis of the data and literature led …
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Gene transfer of keratinocytes with a human Factor XIII - plasmid construct
Factor XIII (plasma transgutaminase) is essential to the clotting process. It catalyses the cross-links between the fibrin monomers, in consequence of the forming fibrin clot achieves an improved stability and a high fibrinolysis resistance. This provides a provisional matrix for the cell migration …
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Characterization of the Recombinant Human Factor VIII Expressed in the Milk of Transgenic Swine
Factor VIII is a protein which has therapeutic applications for the treatment of Hemophilia A. Its deficiency, either qualitative or quantitative, results in Hemophilia A, a disorder affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 males. Currently, FVIII replacement therapy uses FVIII derived from plasma or …
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Ship design with the human factor: evacuation and normal operations modelling in the ship design process
This thesis addresses the modelling of human factors and how they can impact ship design. Two different but related applications areas are considered; passenger ship evacuation analysis and naval vessel normal operations and evacuation analysis. In the first instance, this thesis investigates the …
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Characterization of Post-translational Modifications and Resulting Structure/Function Relationships of Recombinant Human Factor IX Produced in the Milk of Transgenic Pigs
… caused by a deficiency in or dysfunction of factor IX (FIX), a complex plasma glycoprotein required for the formation and maintenance of blood clots. Treatment of hemophilia B involves infusion of replacement FIX currently derived from two sources: FIX purified from pools of human plasma …
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Exploring a New Conceptual Framework in Aviation Maintenance Incident Reporting Using Natural Language Processing
<p>In the analysis of human error incidents, human factors specialists predominantly follow two schools of thought in categorization strategies. One is to categorize the operator’s actions by the physical properties of the activity (phenotypes); the other focuses on the cognitive behaviors …
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An analysis of spatial and temporal variation in fecal indicator concentrations in Singapore
… E. coli, enterococci, total coliform, and human factor. Twenty twelve-hour time series were examined, with indicator concentrations measured every hour from 8 am to 7 pm. Six stations in Singapore were evaluated, across three land-use categories (high-density residential, low-density …
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Some Economic Implications of Human Resource Valuation
Even before the wheel the human factor was an essential element in the work process. As early as the 1830's the productivity of the American worker was noticeably higher than their foreign counterparts." For some observers this was the result of the industrial revolution. The cause and effect …
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Data Analysis and Visualization for Electricity Markets
… various visualizations is evaluated using formal human factor experiments. The results of these experiments show the advantages of the visualizations utilized in the dissertation, provide direction and caveats in future power system visualization research, and prove the necessity of such formal …
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The influence of transformational leadership and organisational climate on organisational citizenship behaviour among support staff at a selected University in the Western Cape Province
… Universities and many other organizations, the human factor is the most important element of the organization and its functions exert a huge influence on the effectiveness, efficiency and success of the organization. Therefore, discretionary behaviours such as OCB among employees in such …
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The development of a personal approach in stage management
… the artists around him, I will refer to the 11 human factor 11 of stage management throughout this handbook...
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Development of distraction risk index (DRI) among the intrastate bus drivers in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
… being found and the most dominant categories are human factor which have 14.06 percentage of variance. Human factor consists of three sources of distraction which are driver's health, comfortability of the driver's seat and condition of the bus. Distraction Risk Index (DRI) had been developed and …
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The development of a systems design model for job performance aids : a qualitative developmental study
… upon a synthesis of instructional technology and human factor literature and a series of interviews with instructional design and human factor experts. A job performance aid was developed using the procedural design model for use by corporate aviation cabin crewmembers. The procedural design model …
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