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A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis
As aircraft have become more reliable, humans have played a progressively more important causal role in aviation accidents. Consequently, a growing number of aviation organizations are tasking their safety personnel with developing accident investigation and other safety programs to address the highly complex and often nebulous issue of human error. Yet, many safety professionals are illequipped to perform these new duties.
The purpose of the present book is to remedy this situation by presenting a comprehensive, userfriendly framework to assist practitioners in effectively investigating and analyzing human error in aviation. Coined the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), its framework is based on James Reason's (1990) well-known \"Swiss cheese\" model of accident causation. In essence, HFACS bridges the gap between theory and practice in a way that helps improve both the quantity and quality of information gathered in aviation accidents and incidents.
The HFACS framework was originally developed for, and subsequently adopted by, the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps as an accident investigation and data analysis tool. The U.S. Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard, as well as other military and civilian aviation organizations around the world are also currently using HFACS to supplement their preexisting accident investigation systems. In addition, HFACS has been taught to literally thousands of students and safety professionals through workshops and courses offered at professional meetings and universities. Indeed, HFACS is now relatively well known within many sectors of aviation and an increasing number of organizations worldwide are interested in exploring its usage. Consequently, the authors currently receive numerous requests for more information about the system on what often seems to be a daily basis.
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Honeymoon
When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness-the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow-O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.
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Identification of Escherichia coli Host Genes That Influence the Bacteriophage Lambda (λ) T4rII Exclusion (Rex) Phenotype
Despite its historic role in evolving our understanding of modern molecular genetics, the mechanism governing the bacteriophage T4rII exclusion (Rex) phenotype has remained a mystery for over six decades. The Rex system is thought... The T4rII exclusion (Rex) phenotype is the inability of T4rII mutant bacteriophage to propagate in hosts (Escherichia coli) lysogenized by bacteriophage lambda (λ). The Rex phenotype, triggered by T4rII infection of a rex+ λ lysogen, results in rapid membrane depolarization imposing a harsh cellular environment that resembles stationary phase. Rex “activation” has been proposed as an altruistic cell death system to protect the λ prophage and its host from T4rII superinfection. Although well studied for over 60 years, the mechanism behind Rex still remains unclear. We have identified key nonessential genes involved in this enigmatic exclusion system by examining T4rII infection across a collection of rex+ single-gene knockouts. We further developed a system for rapid, one-step isolation of host mutations that could attenuate/abrogate the Rex phenotype. For the first time, we identified host mutations that influence Rex activity and rex+ host sensitivity to T4rII infection. Among others, notable genes include tolA, ompA, ompF, ompW, ompX, ompT, lpp, mglC, and rpoS. They are critical players in cellular osmotic balance and are part of the stationary phase and/or membrane distress regulons. Based on these findings, we propose a new model that connects Rex to the σS, σE regulons and key membrane proteins.
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The privatization of fraud investigation : internal investigations by fraud examiners
\"This book discusses privatization of law enforcement in relation to suspected corporate crime and recommends guidelines for successful fraud examinations. There is a growing business for global auditing and local law firms to conduct internal investigations at client organizations when there is suspicion of white-collar misconduct and crime. This book reflects on the work by these private fraud examiners in terms of an evaluation of their investigation reports. The book brings an original theoretical and methodological approach to investigations of white-collar crime. It develops the theory of convenience as an explanation for motive, opportunity and willingness to commit and conceal white-collar crime. This theory is then related to the case studies. Structured in such a way as to allow the reader to use the text as a non-sequential reference source or guide to a set of connected issues, the book illustrates the practice of privatization by cases and presents guidelines for successful fraud examination. As an investigation can lead to conviction and incarceration, this privatization of crime investigation feeds into the larger issue of privatization of policing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How Much Does Ne Vary Among Species?
The population frequency of polymorphic alleles varies in time. This variation has a stochastic component, mainly determined by the size of the considered population, Ne: genetic drift... Genetic drift is an important evolutionary force of strength inversely proportional to Ne, the effective population size. The impact of drift on genome diversity and evolution is known to vary among species, but quantifying this effect is a difficult task. Here we assess the magnitude of variation in drift power among species of animals via its effect on the mutation load – which implies also inferring the distribution of fitness effects of deleterious mutations. To this aim, we analyze the nonsynonymous (amino-acid changing) and synonymous (amino-acid conservative) allele frequency spectra in a large sample of metazoan species, with a focus on the primates vs. fruit flies contrast. We show that a Gamma model of the distribution of fitness effects is not suitable due to strong differences in estimated shape parameters among taxa, while adding a class of lethal mutations essentially solves the problem. Using the Gamma + lethal model and assuming that the mean deleterious effects of nonsynonymous mutations is shared among species, we estimate that the power of drift varies by a factor of at least 500 between large-Ne and small-Ne species of animals, i.e., an order of magnitude more than the among-species variation in genetic diversity. Our results are relevant to Lewontin’s paradox while further questioning the meaning of the Ne parameter in population genomics.
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Tonight you're dead
Attorney Nora Linde is asked by Detective Thomas Andreasson, a childhood friend, to help in a disturbing investigation. The apparent suicide of a university student turns into something more sinister: a thirty year-old cold case that someone wants to keep covered up.
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Fatal affair
Detective Sergeant Sam Holland has a chance to redeem her career when she is assigned to investigate a senator's murder, but when she is teamed up with a former fling, she must separate her reignited passions from the case at hand.
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Raport de Cercetare Arheologică În Situl De La Limba-Oarda De Jos, Sectorul Ș esul Orzii, Proprietatea Karaioş Alexandru
The present report addresses the circumstances and results of an archaeological investigation initially authorized as a monitoring activity but subsequently developed into a preventive excavation, conducted within a site that has been subject to systematic and preventive research since 1995. The infrastructure project, involving the installation of a sewage system along the axis of a future access road to a property located within the site’s perimeter, required the excavation of a trench measuring approximately 90 m in length and c. 1–1.2 m in width for the installation of the sewer line, including five inspection chambers and four branch connections. A total of eight features attributed to Vinča - period occupations were identified and partially investigated, the majority consisting of sunken features (semi-subterranean dwellings and refuse pits), alongside one surface structure (Feature Cpx. 8), interpreted as the platform of an above-ground dwelling. The archaeological material recovered in substantial quantities enabled a reliable cultural and chronological attribution of the investigated complexes.
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