... Management ... Effective internal control is critical to achieving reliable information for all management reporting and decision making purposes. i ...

The approach, recommended by GE-ARSD, for confirming the achievement of LMFBR reliability goals relies upon a comprehensive understanding of the physical and operational characteristics of the system and the environments to which the system will be subjected during its operational life. This kind of understanding is required for an approach based on system ...

Reliable distinctions in parameters of neurodynamic and psychomotoric functions in students with different flying advancement, which were markedly manifested with presentation and processing of complex information have been established. No reliable distinctions were found in other functional parameters. PMID:9026389

The reliability achieved by military electronic systems and equipments is highly dependent upon the proper selection and application of the electrical and electronics parts used therein. Chapter I of this document provides requirements for three basic ele...

... The goal of this investigation was to ... Carrier Requirement (MMBHMF) Achievement (MMBHMF) ... 5. HMMWV Reliability Requirements/Achievements ...

This viewgraph presentation reviews operational reliability and its role in achieving high reliability through design and process reliability. The topics include: (1) Reliability Engineering Major Areas and interfaces; (2) Design Reliability; (3) Process ...

As computer attack patterns shift and threats to networks change and grow almost daily, it is critical that organizations achieve reliable information security. Investment decisions about information security are best considered in the context of managing...

Most reliability references place heavy emphasis on the mathematics of measuring reliability and relatively little emphasis on the actions which contribute to a product's reliability. This booklet emphasizes how reliability is achieved during the military...

Achieving High Reliability and. Survivability for Greenhouse Gases ... Organization. GOSAT is the joint project of JAXA, MOE (Ministry of the ...

... Title : RELIABILITY TABLES. ... Abstract : The reliability tables in this document are intended to close a gap in existing tabular information. ...

... SYSTEM RELIABILITY WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION CONCERNING RELIABILITY OF ELEMENTS (O GARANTIROVANNYKH OTSENKAKH ...

Tutorial as part of a course titled GD 251: Methods Allocation V-Model. "Method "Reliability Models" (RELM) is a category of methods, the individual applicable reliability models are described in a more detailed way in RELM - Reliability Models (in Annex 1), by listing the selection criteria. A special method is only defined within the ...

A workshop was held at APS to address reliability goals for accelerator systems. Seventy-one individuals participated in the workshop, including 30 from other institutions. The goals of the workshop were to: (1) Give attendees an introduction to the basic concepts of reliability analysis. (2) Exchange information on operating ...

A workshop was held at APS to address reliability goals for accelerator systems. Seventy-one individuals participated in the workshop, including 30 from other institutions. The goals of the workshop were to: (1) Give attendees an introduction to the basic concepts of reliability analysis. (2) Exchange information on operating ...

characteristics of music's notation system and exploring the methods by which musicians and conductors handle to understand musicians' interpretative decisions, as well as their interactions with each other, because these are the primary means by which musicians achieve artistic, reliable performances

Discussed here is failure physics, the study of how products, hardware, software, and systems fail and what can be done about it. The intent is to impart useful information, to extend the limits of production capability, and to assist in achieving low cos...

Optimum repair and overhaul of the high-precision, quiet-running motors in submarine service, to achieve satisfactory performance and reliability, require adequate technical information, tools, and facilities. It is proposed that the Electrical Repair Sho...

Post-test examinations, which have been an important part of the Li-Al/FeS battery development program, have provided valuable information for recommendations on designs to achieve improved cell performance and reliability and for the selection of materia...

The time code reader described is composed of an assembly of commonly available electronic components logically arranged to minimize component count while reliably achieving the basic function of decoding and displaying the time of year information which ...

A concept for personal computers is presented that allows the simulation and visualization of the entry of cosmic ray particles into the Earth`s magnetosphere and of their transport in the near-Earth space with a reliability not previously achieved.

To achieve the agency's mission of having defensible and reliable scientific data with which to make informed decisions, the EPA Quality Assurance (QA) community must continue its successful efforts in increasing support for QA activities through personal communication and carefu...

The maritime oil shipping industry has great public demands for safe and reliable organizational performance. Researchers have identified a set of organizations and industries that operate at extremely high levels of reliability, and have labelled them High Reliability Organizations (HRO). Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster ...

Over the years many advancing techniques in the area of reliability engineering have surfaced in the military sphere of influence, and one of these techniques is Reliability Growth Testing (RGT). Private industry has reviewed RGT as part of the solution to their reliability concerns, but many practical considerations have slowed its ...

Information technology has the potential to provide a tremendous step forward in perioperative patient safety. Through automated delivery of information through fixed and portable computer resources, clinicians may achieve improved situational awareness of the overall operation of the operating room suite and the state of individual ...

Large accelerators for high energy physics research traditionally have been designed using informal best design, engineering, and management practices to achieve acceptable levels of operational availability. However, the Next Linear Collider(NLC) project presents a particular challenge for operational availability due to the unprecedented size and ...

Creating an effective and cost-efficient government has long been a public expectation. Achieving this goal will require federal agencies to produce useful, reliable, and timely information that can be used daily by the Congress, federal managers, and other decisionmakers. Inventory is one of the major areas in the federal government ...

Wireless military information systems require high reliability, which is difficult to achieve in adverse conditions. To provide high reliability one must overcome packet loss across multiple wireless hops. Buffering packets in a lossy environment is well ...

Wisden, Tenet, RMST Unreliable IFRC, Fusion, CODA QCRA, ESRT Surge, CentRoute, RBC Table 1--Sensor, routing tree, and link loss rate information. ESRT (Event- to-Sink Reliable Transport) [24], is also to increase or decrease rate in order to achieve the desired event reliability. But ESRT assumes that the sink

motion estimation results, and uses the temporal constraint to achieve more reliable object tracking The foreground layers detected at individual frames may be reliable. There are several reasons. First, the motion first utilize innovative methods of combining color and edge information in improving the object ...

Robust mobile robot localization requires the availability of highly reliable features obtained by the external sensors of the robot. Redundancy assures reliability and precision of the observed features. In this work we use two different sensors, namely, a laser rangefinder and a monocular vision system, whose complementary nature allows to robustly ...

The maximum rates for reliably transmitting classical information over bosonic multiple-access channels (MACs) are derived when the transmitters are restricted to coherent-state encodings. Inner and outer bounds for the ultimate capacity region of the bosonic MAC are also presented. It is shown that the sum-rate upper bound is ...

governing variables to achieve high reliability in the Stirling Radioisotope ..... approach would be to perform accelerated life testing at elevated ...

Dec 12, 2007 ... Reliability and Maintainability Engineering forms an essential part of achieving safe and successful missions. ...

... is applicable to integrated systems that achieve ... competing functions on system reliability. ... Completion Success Probability, and Failure Resiliency. ...

& Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy), received the first ever "Lifetime Reliability Achievement Awards" from the Indian Society of Reliability, Maintainability and...

The objective of this research is how to achieve in engineering practice the potential advantages of reliability that a large scale data communication network should make possible. From a technical viewpoint, the principal areas of investigation reported here are computer resource sharing, adaptive network routing, and the efficient representation of ...

Results achieved on the reliability and safety of power systems are documented. Approaches to reliability and safety analysis were investigated and compared with regard to their applicability. On the basis of these investigations, two computer programs we...

Describes philosophy and function of specifications in relation to achievement of reliability assurance, general and detailed specifications, environment, interferences, interactions and interfaces affecting system performance requirements.

RELIABILITY. PRACTICES. PRACTICE NO. PT-TE-1438. PAGE 1 OF 5 ... testing), and fail-safe designs to achieve reliability in launch vehicle command destruct ...

The mission of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) "is to improve the reliability and security of the bulk power system in North America. To achieve that, NERC develops and ... ...

Contents: The organism as a dynamical system; The organism as an automaton; The organism as an information processor; A unified approach to organismic reliability.

Perinatal high reliability is achievable with principles of high reliability organizations. Key organizational, leadership, and clinical characteristics that are essential for developing and sustaining a highly reliable perinatal unit are presented. Interdisciplinary collaboration and commitment to safe care that ...

The European Environment Agency aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public. The web site contains environmental ...

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the number of questions and patients that are needed to achieve reliable measurements of patients' judgements of care in general practice. DESIGN: Sensitivity study, using generalisibility theory and real data from surveys of patients. SUBJECTS: 739 patients with chronic illness from 23 general practitioners in The Netherlands. MAIN ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the temporal stability of 5 independent measures of phonological skill: phonetic inventory (initial, final), word shape, syllable structure level, and the index of phonetic complexity. Method: Ten toddlers with typical development participated in two 20-min play sessions within a 1-week period. Test-retest reliability for each ...

The continued exponential growth of photovoltaic technologies paves a path to a solar-powered world, but requires continued progress toward low-cost, high-reliability, and high-performance PV systems. High reliability is an essential element in achieving low-cost solar electricity by reducing operation and maintenance (O&M) costs ...

... Accession Number : ADA466664. Title : Scalability, Complexity and Reliability in Quantum Information Processing. Descriptive ...

... Accession Number : ADA535624. Title : Reliability Information Analysis Center. Descriptive Note : Briefing charts. Corporate ...

... Accession Number : ADA197060. Title : Explanations of the Use of Reliability Information as the Response in Probabilistic Inference Word Problems. ...

Patients using the Internet are inundated with abundant information on health care that may be correct and may be incorrect. It is becoming the role of clinicians to enable patients to educate themselves by providing information about accurate and reliable Web sites, and to answer questions from literature that patients encounter. In ...

The reliability of information obtained from questionnaires is a basic requirement for evaluating the usefulness of these data as behavior predictors. The purpose of the study was to determine the reliability of biographical and job situation items by mea...

Future generation automated human biometric identification and verification will require multiple features/sensors together with internal and external information sources to achieve high performance, accuracy, and reliability in uncontrolled environments. The primary objective of the proposed research is to develop a theoretical and ...

... DEMONSTRATE THE ASSEMBLY ACHIEVES A ... SELECTING FIVE ASSEMBLIES FROM EACH ... AND CONTINUOUS PICTURE AS PRACTICABLE ...

... Corporate Author : FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON DC SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE. ...