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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"safety models"”.
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A new approach to prevent accidents in the steel industry
… regulations, and community concerns. Safety, in particular, has been an important topic in which the industry has put remarkable efforts to improve its performance. Traditional safety models currently used to analyze and prevent accidents have been in use for decades. However, the …
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Development and Application of a Risk-Based Online Body-of-Knowledge for the U.S. Underground Coal Mining Industry: RISKGATE-US COAL
… the need for improved methods of major safety hazard identification and control. While many solutions to reducing the risk of mine disasters have been proposed, including stricter regulation and improved technology, a comprehensive risk management approach has yet to be fully integrated …
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DATA-DRIVEN BAYESIAN METHOD-BASED TRAFFIC CRASH DRIVER INJURY SEVERITY FORMULATION, ANALYSIS, AND INFERENCE
… prior information and studied datasets, Bayesian models are efficient methods in data analysis with more accurate results, but their applications in traffic safety studies are still limited. By examining the driver injury severity patterns, this research is proposed to systematically examine the …
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Quantifying the Safety Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems
… to the police every year in the United States. Safety is significantly important considering the rapid increase on traffic volume on American roads. This thesis describes the development of a safety model whose primary objective is to capture the benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems …
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A Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) Approach to Compare Cardiovascular, Orthopedics, Trauma Care, and Neurosurgery
… </strong>Despite significant progress in patient safety, human error continues to occur at high rates in procedural settings. Traditional safety models tend to focus on retrospective incident analysis, often overlooking the systemic conditions that allow errors to occur. The Human Factors Analysis …
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Perceptions of School Leaders, School Division Leaders, and non-SRO Model Employees Regarding a New School Safety Model in One Urban Virginia School Division
… employees regarding the transition from a school safety model with School Resource Officers (SROs) to a model with non-SRO (NSRO) employees in one urban school division in Virginia. The researcher sought to answer one research question: What are school leaders' and non-School Resource Officer …
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Assessing Crash Occurrence On Urban Freeways Using Static And Dynamic Factors By Applying A System Of Interrelated Equations
… the main causes of death in the US, making road safety a high priority issue that needs urgent attention. Recognizing the fact that more and effective research has to be done in this area, this thesis aims mainly at developing different statistical models related to the road safety. The thesis …
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Model-Based Safety Assessment of Industrial Automation Systems using IEC 61499
… control and automation of hazardous plants. Safety of such systems is of paramount importance and may even be mandated by law. Safety-related systems may be required to demonstrate conformance to an applicable functional safety standards to assure safety and demonstrate the that these systems …
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Origins and Use of Presidential Polling in Mexico, Presidential Approval in Mexico, Government Spending and Public Opinion in Mexico
… third papers made use of vector autoregression models to account for feedback effects among the spending and opinion variables, controlling, at the same time, for a possible `backwards' process in the opinion variables. The main assumption is that the variables are connected: all variables …