We present a computationally eeective approach to representing and reasoning about actions with many qualiications. The approach involves treating actions as qualiied not by speciic facts that may or may not hold when the action is executed, but instead as potentially qualiied by general constraints describing the domain being investigated. Speciically, we suggest that the result of the action ...

One of the most time consuming activities in new product development is associated with reliability assessment and qualification. This is defined as a process to verify whether the anticipated reliability is indeed achieved under actual life cycle loads for some specified length of time. Reliability assessment and qualification is usually accomplished by testing under accelerated loads to achie...

In this paper, we propose a solution to McCarthy’s qualification problem [lo] based on the notion of possible worlds [3, 61. We begin by noting that existing formal solutions to qualification seem to us to suffer from serious epistemological and computational difficulties. We present a formalization of action based on the notion of possible worlds, and show that our solution to the qualificatio...

The status of Polish medical laboratories in continuously changing. Since 2001 the legal framework was established for the clinical chemists employed in medical and microbiological laboratories. Since that time, the job performance by clinical chemists is limited only to the specialist, member of the Polish Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians. According to that legal act, graduate in laborator...

The quality of water is crucial for the qualification river beaches. Cávado River watershed (Northern Portugal) contains five beaches with a regular and specific mandatory monitorization. main subject this research evaluation spatial temporal microbiological physicochemical parameters to assess improvement consequently management. results monitoring surface water, considering from (2015/19), th...

Coordinate metrology aims to answer two questions: whether a manufactured part meets design tolerance specifications and how well the manufactured part meets the specifications. Existing methods for analyzing measured coordinate data are not adequate or effective for parts of complex tolerance zones. This paper presents a new approach to dimensional qualification of manufactured parts. In this ...

This article considers that the National Plan of Workers’ Qualification – Planfor established too audacious general objectives: democratization of access to professional qualification; the search of a sustainable development model; and new State’s performance. It also considers that the Plan succeeded in the first and third objectives, while its limits have had great impact on the second one.

There is no lack of debate in the field of mediation. Topics that tend to attract the most attention and vigorous discussion include mediator qualification and process outcome. What's lacking, according to Douglas Noll, is a practical theory that would bring together different views, and help both practitioners and clients. In the following article, Noll reviews existing literature to form a si...

Equipment qualification is the way to ensure that analytical equipment is fit for purpose. Qualification consists of four basic elements. Design qualification or DQ (Specification of what exactly the analytical scientist requires the equipment to do). Installation qualification or IQ (Does the instrument work to the manufacturer’s specification?). Operational qualification or OQ (Does the instr...