In this paper authors have considered a system having three units A, B1 and B2. A is controlled by a controller and B1 and B2 are independent. Two repairmen are involved in repair of the system. One of the repairmen (the first) is the foreman (boss) and the other an assistant (apprentice). Whenever any unit fails, repair is undertaken by boss. If the boss is busy in repairing and at the same ti...

In this paper we present a general Learning Apprentice linked to decision support systems for generating diagnoses. The Learning Apprentice acquires diagnostic knowledge by following the case studies and exemplars presented to the decision support system. It employs three machine learning techniques to learn: Exemplar Based Learning is used to acquire new diagnosis candidates, Explanation Based...

OBJECTIVES Falls from heights are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the construction industry, especially among inexperienced workers. We surveyed apprentice carpenters to identify individual and organizational factors associated with falls from heights. METHODS We developed a 72-item survey on fall prevention with multiple domains including fall experience, fall-prevention knowle...

of letters, shown clearly by Laurence Brockliss and Eric Hamraoui. As well as corresponding widely with his contemporaries, Tissot has left us with abundant source material on the patient/ doctor relationship. His detailed diagnostic letters as well as the patients' requests allow historians, such as Frederic Sardet, Philip Rieder and Vincent Barras, to examine eighteenth-century conceptions of...

Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale demonstrates the characterization of a riotous apprentice, narrative depiction conflict between that apprentice and his master, master’s issuing questionable “papir” “acquitance” (4404 & 4411) to suggest provocatively linked definitions class depictions order transgression specific guild-oriented mercantile culture fourteenth-century London. Considered within context G...