The DFG-Senate Commission for Food Safety (SKLM) considered the high pressure treatment of foodstuffs already in 1998 and published an opinion entitled "High pressure treatment of foodstuffs, particularly fruit juices". In view of the continued development of this technology, the extension of the types of product involved and the ongoing research in this field, the Working Group "Food technolog...

Author: John C. Sloan Title: Finite Safety Models for High-Assurance Systems Institution: Florida Atlantic University Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Year: 2010 Preventing bad things from happening to engineered systems, demands improvements to how we model their operation with regard to safety. Safety-critical and fiscally-critical systems both dema...

Reasoning about heap-allocated data structures such as linked lists and arrays is challenging. The reachability predicate has proved to be useful for reasoning about the heap in type-safe languages where memory is manipulated by dereferencing object fields. Sound and precise analysis for such data structures becomes significantly more challenging in the presence of low-level pointer manipulatio...

The importance analysis provides a means of analyzing the contribution of potential low-level system failures to identify and assess vulnerabilities of safety-critical systems. Common approaches attempt to enhance the system safety by addressing vulnerabilities using an iterative analysis process, while considering relevant constraints, e.g., cost, for optimizing the improvements. Typically, da...

A health management (HM) system is responsible for information gathering about a system’s health and corresponding decision-making. HM systems are typically used to identify any degradation in performance that may affect safety or successful operations of a system. Effective long term development of successful health management solutions requires an improved understanding of the relationship be...

Background: Occupational incidents still account for a high percentage of causes of death and disability. A study was designed to determine the relationship between employee safe behavior and safety culture. Methods: In this analytical study, all employees of an industrial livestock units of Tehran participated (n = 200). The data on the employee behavior was evaluated using the safety samplin...

The use of mowing robots in anthropic environment is increasing, leading to the call for specific safety standards. This is a challenging endeavour, however, because the user must usually be placed in the robot's workspace and the residents must frequently interact with the robot. Although specific safety standards for mowing robots do not yet exist, there are several mowing device standards an...

The article by Cheri Wilson, “Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access”, highlights 
the challenges of providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) to patients with 
Limited English Proficiency (LEP). As the US pursues high-value, high-performance healthcare, our ability 
to meet the needs of our most vulnerable will determine whether we succeed...