Professional airline pilots should be in far better health at all ages than the general population. Every six months, U.S. airline pilots must undergo a first-class flight physical examination, which is defined and required by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). To continue flying as pilots, they must pass the physical examination. Airline pilots reach age 60 (their mandatory-retire...

This case study is a human factors analysis of the aircraft collisionwhich occurred at the LosRodeos airport in Tenerife, on the Canary Islands. The collision between two 747 jumbo jets cost the lives of 583 people. This collision is an example of how large scale disasters result from errorsmade by people in crucial circumstances and illustrates the potentially devastating consequences of ineff...

in this research we study the influencing factors that have direct effect on successful ais implementing. according to other researches, we specified some factors that are most efficacious ones, and categorized them through three main hypotheses of human recourses, technical characteristics of ais and management strategies. to study various dimensions of these groups we determined some other fa...

Transcription factors (TFs) recognize specific DNA sequences to control chromatin and transcription, forming a complex system that guides expression of the genome. Despite keen interest in understanding how TFs control gene expression, it remains challenging to determine how the precise genomic binding sites of TFs are specified and how TF binding ultimately relates to regulation of transcripti...

The accumulation of plaque can reduce signifi cantly the fl ow of blood through a coronary artery — a problem that can result in angina (pain in the chest directly related to the restricted blood fl ow). More serious damage occurs when a plaque ruptures, causing the formation of blood clots that block the fl ow of blood. If a blockage occurs in a coronary blood vessel, the result is a heart att...

Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future by participating in its own installation and customization, maintaining its own health, and adapting itself to new circumstances, new users, and new uses. To create such software will require us to change some of our underlying assumptions about how we write programs. A promising approach seems to be to separate soft...

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This special issue is the Part II of a two-volume special issue comprising of a series of papers documenting the state-of-the-art research in geovisual analytics. Part I consisted of four papers and focused on design and implementation issues in geovisual analytics. Here, with an additional four papers focused on the human factors in geovisual analytics,we present Part II. Visual analytics aims...