A wide spectrum of disordered many-body systems that are inherent structures (i.e., local minima potential energy landscape) was recently discovered to possess a novel hidden long-range order known as hyperuniformity, yet the mechanisms associated with emergence hyperuniformity in such not well understood. Here, we address this important fundamental problem by linking together concepts topologi...

ite power and grounding audits/evaluations of commercial and industrial locations routinely identify electrical power system grounding and bonding problems. According to S. Frank Waterer, an electrical engineering IEEE Fellow at Schneider Electric with more than 30 years of experience, approximately 70% of all anomalies, dysfunctions, or problems associated with power distribution systems are d...

OBJECTIVES Although the safety of patients has been one of the inherent concerns of dental practice, but because the proposals made in the field of dentistry are few and improperly structured, this paper constitutes an attempt to present a proposal titled "Plan for Dental Health Care Risk Management, " promoted by the General Council of Dentists of Spain, including a description of the proposed...

In many applications, especially autonomous exploration, there is a trade-off inherent in the way resource usage is estimated at planning-time: to maintain the safety of the agent, the plan must be robust to pessimistic outcomes; yet, to maximise the amount of activities undertaken, resources must be used to their full potential. In this paper we consider a method of planning that maintains ope...

The number of older drivers will continue to increase as the population ages. Health care professionals have the responsibility of providing care and maintaining confidentiality for their patients while ensuring public safety. This article discusses the ethics of clinical decision-making pertaining to reporting health-related driving risk of older drivers to licensing authorities. Ethical consi...

The technique of reaction inhibition is a poorly researched topic. Other methods of runaway reaction control, namely inherent safety, process control, containment, reactor venting, crash cooling and drown-out, are well documented, established techniques that are regularly used for the protection against, or prevention of, runaway chemical reactions. Increasing environmental protection legislati...

The supply and maintenance of safe and wholesome foods to a population is a complex system involving multiple stakeholders. An organizational scheme for representing this complexity is a food chain. A food chain also provides the appropriate structure for the management and communication of food risks. A natural extension of this framework is the concept of a food safety objective. The mathemat...

Hybrid automata have been introduced in both control engineering and computer science as a formal model for the dynamics of hybrid discrete-continuous systems. In the case of so-called linear hybrid automata this formalization supports semi-decision procedures for state reachability, yet no decision procedures due to inherent undecid-ability 4]. Thus, unlike nite or timed automata, already line...

Numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of alcohol and traffic policies in reducing automobile crashes and fatalities, but only a few have analyzed the impact of state-specific policies on motorcycle safety. Given the growing popularity and inherent safety risks of motorcycle riding, this study provides a comprehensive investigation of both fatal and non-fatal injuries. State-level lon...

Querying a safety case to show how the various stakeholders’ concerns about system safety are addressed has been put forth as one of the benefits of argument-based assurance (in a recent study by the Health Foundation, UK, which reviewed the use of safety cases in safety-critical industries). However, neither the literature nor current practice offer much guidance on querying mechanisms appropr...