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S U R V E Il L a N C E of D Is a S T E R -a V Ie W F R O M Th E D E N O M in a T O R

The National Institute o f Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is dedicated to achieving "safety and health at work for all people — through research and prevention." An important procedure in pursuing this goal is the NIOSH surveillance studies where the number o f injuries are monitored according to demographic, employment, and injury characteristics. These numeric data are then used to id...

T R a N S D U C E R S Based on N E T W O R K S of Evolutionary Processors

We consider a new type of transducer that does not sean sequentially the input word. Instead, it consists of a directed graph whose nodes are processors which work in parallel and are specialized in just one type of a very simple evolutionary operation: inserting, deleting or substituting a symbol by another one. The computation on an input word starts with this word placed in a designated node...

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W. R. D. Fairbairn