Notation and Acronyms α scale parameter β shape parameter φ demand rate for the hidden function per hour CA cost of an accident CI cost of inspection COC opportunity cost of lost production Cr cost of repair CRep cost of Discard FFI Failure Finding Inspection F(t) unreliability function FN(t) conditional probability of failure within the N extended FFI Fk(t) conditional probability of failure w...

This article presents personality factors juxtaposed with coping styles among men and women aged 18 to 71 years. The first section describes the concept of personality, its components, definition stress styles. Personality traits were examined using NEO-FFI Inventory Coping Stress Questionnaire (CISS). study was conducted in a sample 175 women, data collected online methods. There positive corr...

For the last century, fire management has focused on techniques to both protect human communities from catastrophic wildfire and to maintain fire-dependent ecological systems. However, despite a large and increasing allocation of resources and personnel to these goals, we are losing ground. It is clear that current fire management techniques are no match for the challenges requested of fire man...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

Indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving EFL learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics Brown (2001). Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

Flavoprotein fluorescence imaging (FFI) is a novel intrinsic optical signal that is steadily gaining ground as a valuable imaging tool in neuroscience research due to its closer relationship with local metabolism relative to the more commonly used hemodynamic signals. We have developed a technique for FFI imaging in the primary visual cortex (V1) of alert monkeys. Due to the nature of neurovasc...

Feedforward inhibition (FFI) between the dentate gyrus (DG) and CA3 sparsifies and shapes memory- and spatial navigation-related activities. However, our understanding of this prototypical FFI circuit lacks essential details, as the wiring of FFI is not yet mapped between individual DG granule cells (GCs) and CA3 pyramidal cells (PCs). Importantly, theoretically opposite network contributions a...