This paper provides a method based on information theory for risk analysis and evaluation. A basic method to construction site risk evaluation by Shannon entropy is used. Safety and technical risk of the building construction process has been calculated by Shannon’s entropy which provides information of the system, of various kinds under uncertainties. The method has been applied to a case stud...

I. Introduction The reasons for improving the analog and mixed-signal test program set design and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) process are well documented [1-7]. For instance, identification of chronic production faults, improved safety and reliability through the analysis of difficult to test failure modes, investigation of circuit failure mechanisms, and excessive part stress could al...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been extensively used for examining potential failures in products, processes, designs and services. An important issue of FMEA is the determination of risk priorities of the failure modes that have been identified. The traditional FMEA determines the risk priorities of failure modes using the so-called risk priority numbers (RPNs), which require the...

This article presents the comparison of SingleGate SOI and Multi-Gate SOI MOSFETs. In the first part we have presented two main fundamental problems of the “ultimate” (sub-10-nm) MOSFET scaling of Single-Gate geometry: the exponential growth of power consumption and sensitivity to fabrication uncertainties. These factors have played the decisive role in for eventual transfer of the CMOS industr...

Aims. We present VRi photometric observations of the quadruply imaged quasar HE0435-1223, carried out with the Danish 1.54 m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Our aim was to monitor and study the magnitudes and colors of each lensed component as a function of time. Methods. We monitored the object during two seasons (2008 and 2009) in the VRi spectral bands, and reduced the data with two i...

Qualitative simulation interpreted by the use of functional labels to identify significant system behaviour has been shown to be a useful technique for automating design analysis tasks such a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. However, increasing sophistication of the systems to be analysed means that it is becoming increasingly important that the correct timing of these system functions be in...

We investigated how constraints imposed by the concurrent visual context modulate the effects of prior gender and action cues as well as of stereotypical knowledge during situated language comprehension. Participants saw videos of female or male hands performing an action and then inspected a display showing the faces of two potential agents (one male and one female face) as they listened to Ge...

In this report presents our experience with automating parts of the FMEA process using a model checker. As the case study a minepump control system is used, that prevents flooding in a mineshaft

This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to privacy. The subject is examined from an ethical, social, and economic perspective reflecting the preliminary findings of the EU-funded research project PRESCIENT. The analysis will give a comprehensive illustration of the dimensions’ unique and characteristic features. This will build the basis for identifying overlaps and developing synerget...

This paper shows that a zero-sum redistribution of wealth within a country can have persistent aggregate effects. Motivated by the case of an unanticipated inflation episode, we consider redistribution shocks that shift resources from old to young households. Aggregate effects arise because there are asymmetries in the reaction of winners and losers to changes in wealth. We focus on two sources...