This paper examines the role of school inspection in early (1861–1910) professionalisation Swedish elementary teachers. International research on has focused educational reform, but rarely teachers’ theoretical and practical development. The paper’s assumption is that was initiated by state as part its effort to professionalise teaching 1860s. Using inspectors’ reports, two specific areas: (1) ...

The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector does not simply result...

Sometimes a complex software system fails because of errors undiscovered in the design stage of the development process. Detecting these errors early in the process would eliminate many downstream problems. The so-called ‘‘capture–recapture’’ model, initially used by biologists to estimate the size of wildlife populations, has been widely used to estimate the number of software design errors. H...

Author(s): Assoc. Prof. Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Manager Yoshikazu Shimada, Director Kikuo Tomita Institution(s): Muroran Institute of Technology, Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., Fujita Corporation E-mail(s): [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract: Inspectors of buildings including power plants have to carry a bulk of documents and drawings to ...

The manufacturing of critical applications often requires a low or zero defect level. To ensure quality is not compromised when high product reliability is required, quality-engineering departments frequently employ 100% inspection. Given the fallibility of human inspectors though, re-inspection procedures, at times, may have to be implemented. This paper analyzes various multi-inspector scenar...

The study was aimed to investigate relationship between active, adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies and mental health in police personnel. The sample included 100 constables, 100 inspectors and 100 officers incidentally selected from Uttar Pradesh (UP) police department. The Brief COPE scale (Carver, 1997) and Mental Health Inventory (Jagdish & Srivastava, 1983) were administered on them...

Significance: Dec 29, 2001 Identified By: NRC Item Type: FIN Finding DEGRADED AND INADEQUATELY TESTED TRANSFORMER AND PROTECTIVE RELAYING RESULTS IN INCREASE IN TRANSIENT AND LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER INITIATING EVENT FREQUENCIES On August 2, 2001, Unit 2 experienced a transformer failure, reactor scram, and loss of offsite power. The inspectors determined that a lightning strike in conjunction wit...