The paper presents an innovative approach to integrate Human and Organisational Factors (HOF) into risk analysis. The approach has been developed and applied to a case study in the maritime industry, but it can also be utilised in other sectors. A Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) has been developed to model the Maritime Transport System (MTS), by taking into account its different actors (i.e., shi...

Midori River estuary faces Ariake Bay,and has the largest sandy tidal flat(approximately2,100ha)in Japan.We investigated the spatial distribution of particle size composition of the sediment,microphytobenthos on the surface sediment and macrobenthic animals at the stations set along a cross transect line in Midori River estuary. The Chl-a concentrations of the surface sediment that reflected th...

An iterative scheme of identification and model based control design can be used to tackle the problem of designing an enhanced and robust control system for a plant with unknown dynamics (Schrama 1992). In such an iterative scheme, closed loop experimental conditions are indispensable to obtain data from the (possibly unstable) plant. However, by employing the knowledge of the controller used ...

Laboratory based gait analysis techniques are expensive, time consuming and require technical expertise. Inertial measurement units can directly measure temporal parameters and in combination with gait models may provide a solution to obtain spatial gait measurements within daily clinical assessments. However it is not known if a model and standard correction factor determined by Zijlstra and H...

اندازه‌گیری پرتو گاما در زمینه‌های مختلف تحقیقاتی نیازمند آشکارسازهای کارآمد است. زمینه دزیمتری فوتون آشکارساز جرقه‌ای NaI(Tl) به عنوان یکی از سوسوزن معدنی (غیرآلی)، علت دارا بودن مقدار بالای نور خروجی بسیار حایز اهمیت این پژوهش سعی گردیده است، با کمک کد مونت‌کارلو (MCNPX) مقدمات مشخصه‌یابی توسط و بهره‌گیری روش‌های متفاوت محاسبه دز (تالی‌های 6F، 4*F، 6+F 8*F) انجام شود. طور معمول، یک تابش (شمار...