human factors are among the main elements affecting the reliability of nondestructive examinations (nde). in a man-machine system, human reliability is affected by many factors (performance shaping factors) whose influence on reliability cannot be easily expressed quantitatively. this paper identifies and ranks 59 perform-ance shaping factors by using a fuzzy reasoning method and proposes a pro...

Human factors are among the main elements affecting the reliability of nondestructive examinations (NDE). In a man-machine system, human reliability is affected by many factors (performance shaping factors) whose influence on reliability cannot be easily expressed quantitatively. This paper identifies and ranks 59 perform-ance shaping factors by using a fuzzy reasoning method and proposes a pro...

UNLABELLED Human somatic angiotensin-1 converting enzyme (ACE) is a zinc-dependent exopeptidase, that catalyses the conversion of the decapeptide angiotensin I to the octapeptide angiotensin II, by removing a C-terminal dipeptide. It is the principal component of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system that regulates blood pressure. Hence it is an important therapeutic target for the treatment...

P OLYPEPTIDE growth factors (GFs) 1 play a fundamental role during embryogenesis and regeneration (e.g., wound healing) by stimulating proliferation and differentiation of certain cell populations. Some GFs can be responsible also for malignant transformation and tumor growth (e.g., FGF-4: hst1 oncogene). GF receptors (GFRs) are generally known as plasma membrane proteins which “send” signals t...

Ance is a single domain homologue of mammalian angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and is important for normal development and reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster. Mammalian ACE is responsible for the synthesis of angiotensin II and the inactivation of bradykinin and N -acetyl-Ser-Asp-Lys-Pro, but the absence of similar peptide hormones in insects suggests novel functions for Ance. We now p...

This paper gathers the supplementary material to de Chaisemartin (2016). I show that one can estimate quantile treatment e ects in the comvivors subpopulation, that one can test the CD condition, and that my results extend to multivariate treatment and instrument, to fuzzy regression discontinuity designs, and to the bounds in Lee (2009) for survey nonresponse. ∗Department of Economics, Univers...