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...

This paper starts with description of the widely used risk assessment tool Failure Modes & Effects Analysis. The paper then later examines some of the alternative methods for risk assessment and their advantages. In this work, we also point out the advantages of using Six Sigma in Risk Assessment and propose a novel technique which would overcome the restrictions of existing Risk Management tools.

Introduction: The transfer of patient care from the hospital team to primary care and other providers in the community at the time of discharge is a high-risk process characterized by fi-agmented, nonstandardized, and haphazard care that leads to errors and adverse events. The development of interventions to improve the discharge process requires a detailed evaluation of the process by a multid...

Purpose: of the current research is to develop a reliability assessment method with an extension of the existing ones and pooling them to a common framework. The system must identify the most unreliable parts of a production process and suggest the most efficient ways for the reliability improvement. Design/methodology/approach: FMEA is in the centre of the proposed framework,a reliability anal...

This paper estimates the effects of incumbent spending and challenger spending in U.S. House elections in the 1970s and 1980s. The paper employs FIML simultaneous equations analysis involving instrumental variables as vote predictors, and zero-covariance restrictions for the vote-spending disturbances. This procedure allows the estimation of spending effects given plausible assumptions about th...

M. Roszak, M. Spilka, A. Kania, Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Gliwice, Poland The purpose of this paper is to present a concept of FMEA analysis for environmental aspects, together with a discussion of the importance, implementation and application of the proposed concept. The analyses and the developed E-FMEA methodology have resulted i...

Service companies must be able to face the challenge to offer error-free services to their customers. According to Service definition, the customer is always present during the processes and delivery of the service . If something goes wrong it will happen in the presence of the customer . This article shows the use of FMEA as a prevention tool in the services offered by a Medical Clinic restaur...