...MITIGATION OF ERROR by Michael Raynard Mayberry A Paper Submitted to the Worldwide Campus In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master of Aeronautical Science Corporate Aviation Operations ASCI 622 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide Campus November 2011 Abstract Crew Resource Management (CRM) has been a great asset to flight safety by properly using resources for pilots and aircrew. The use of CRM have been effective with other training tools to help encourage better communication and to improve decision making skills. CRM is a valuable asset to companies training program if the technical skills are utilizes in the proper manner. CRM errors will never be eliminated, but the use of effective CRM skill can prevent a substantial amount of errors from ever occurring. Keywords: aviation, CRM, error, human error, decision making, safety Mitigation of Error Crew Resource Management (CRM) has been a great asset to flight safety by properly using resources for pilots and aircrew. Not all researchers accept the concept of CRM to manage error because of its import from other airlines and other training organizational. Other culture and situations could have been worse and not justified use in the United States due to its culture and environment. The researcher will discuss the ability of CRM to eliminate some error; although error can never be completely eliminated, the skills of CRM are an exceptional source that was originally...
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...contains a total of 24 to 26 questions. Since you have thirty-five minutes to complete the section, you have an average of approximately one minute and twenty-five seconds to complete each question. Of course, the amount of time you spend on each question will vary with the difficulty of each question and the total number of questions per section. For virtually all students the time constraint is a major obstacle, and as we progress through this book we will discuss time management techniques as well as time-saving techniques that you can employ within the section. The Section Directions Each Logical Reasoning section is prefaced by the following directions: “The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by commonsense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.” On average, you have 1 minute and 25 seconds to complete each question. Because these directions precede every Logical Reasoning section, you should familiarize yourself with them now. Once the LSAT begins, never waste time reading the directions for any section. Let’s examine these directions...
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...Pfizer Executive Summary Company Overview World’s largest global research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets safe and effective medicines. Mission To be the world’s most valued company to patients, customers, colleagues, investors, business partners and the communities where we work and live. Pharmaceutical Products Aricept Genotropin Spiriva Aromasin Geodon/Zeldox Sutent Caduet Lipitor Vfend Camptosar Lyrica Viagra Celebrex Norvasc Xalatan/Xalacom Chantix Rebif Zmax Detrol/Detrol LA Relpax Zoloft Eraxis Revatio Zyvox Animal Health Products BoviShield Draxxin RespiSure/Stellamune Cerenia Excede Revolution/Stronghold Clavamox/Synulox Improvac Rimadyl Convenia Lutalyse Silentrol Dectomax Naxcel/Excenel Financials Stock Symbol: PFE Price Range: $11-$18 Sales (2008): $48,296,000,000 Net Income: $8,104,000,000 Net Assets: $109,892,000,000 Key Executives CEO: Jeff Kindler CFO: Frank D'Amelio CMO (Chief Medical Officer): Freda C. Lewis-Hall Key Competitors GlaxoSmithKline Johnson & Johnson Novartis AG Roche Holding-AG Sanofi-Aventis Mergers and Acquisitions (2008-2009) Wyeth: announcement of merger 1/26/09, biopharmaceutical Auxilium Pharmaceuticals: 12/08, develops Xiaflex-first in class biologic for treatment of Dupuytren’s contracture and Peyronie’s Disease Schering-Plough...
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...nature, animals and humans. Cloning is defined as the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing human or growing cloned tissue from that individual. This term is generally used to refer to artificial cloning; human clones in the form of identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction. “Human cloning is the asexual production of a human being whose genetic makeup is nearly identical to that of a currently or previously existing individual” (Chesire et al., 2003, p. 1010). To be successful with cloning, scientists utilize and create “generic” cells that that have the ability to make exact duplicates or copies of themselves indefinitely. This process is known as “stem cell research.” Stem cells are a key element of the different types of cloning and will impact advances in helping to cure many different types of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, spinal cord injury, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, and cancer. Before we can discuss this, I need to explain the different types of cloning. Cloning for the most part, as we know it, began on July 5, 1996 with a sheep named “Dolly.” The creation of Dolly was accomplished after many failed and aborted attempts. Dolly came about by agricultural research scientists who were tasked and funded to create the “perfect sheep.” The reason behind the experiment was to...
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...Counseling. 2017 Hynson Discussion Week # 4 Your Vision for Social Change Post by Day 4 Walden’s mission, vision, and intended outcomes for social change for its students. As a part of my reading, I continued reading the Walden’s Universities cover page and ran across the mission and the vision statement that Walden University wrote for its students. The mission statement was such an inspiring statement that let me know that Walden University continues to provide an assortment of scholarly, educational courses, which gives all professionals the ability to go into the community and become that great inspirational person that could create social change among...
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...CHAPTER [ 3 ] Charismatic and Transformational Leadership The purpose of this chapter is to help the reader understand the nature of charismatic and transformational leadership. Although the two forms of leadership overlap, they are treated separately here because the study of charismatic leadership focuses so heavily on personal traits. The legitimacy of either of these forms of leadership as a separate entity has been challenged. Nevertheless, studying charismatic and transformational leadership represents an important current thrust in understanding the leader’s role. CHAPTER OUTLINE AND LECTURE NOTES The study of charismatic and transformational leadership, an extension of the trait theory, has become an important way of understanding leadership Charisma facilitates leaders carrying out their roles. [ I ]. THE MEANINGS OF CHARISMA Charisma is a special quality of leaders whose purposes, powers, and extraordinary determination differentiate them from others. The various definitions of charisma have a unifying theme. Charisma is also a positive and compelling quality in a person that creates a desire in many others to be led by him or her. The attributes of charisma are important because they lead to behavioral outcomes such as commitment to the leader, self-sacrifice, and high performance. A study with law enforcement workers and business students showed that network members influence our attributions of charisma. [ A ]. Charisma: A Relationship Between the Leader...
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...Motivation or preference assessments are designed to determine chain of command under a specific set of conditions in which they are conducted. These types of assessments are observations or trial-based evaluations that allow clinicians to determine a preference hierarchy. A preference chain of command indicates which items are highly-preferred items, moderately-preferred items, and low-preferred items ( http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ebip/preference-assessments/ ). An ABC data form is an assessment tool used to gather information that should evolve into a positive behavior support plan. A is the antecedent which are the events, action, or circumstances that occur before a behavior. B is the behavior. C is the consequences which are the action or response that follows the behavior. The ABC data form is considered a direct observation format because one has to be directly observing the behavior when it occurs. This form is given to the staff as an external observer who during their shift has the time and ability to observe and document behaviors during specified periods of the day which is time and staffs...
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...exposed of having poor labor conditions relative to health and safety. As a result international labor standards have arisen from programs such as the U.N Global Compact. The World Banks identification of the food industry´s problems related to worker rights has ensured protection of workers and set basic labor provisions that regulates employment terms and conditions, wages and hours. National enforcements have also been significant in controlling worker registration, legal rights and disclosure in the overall...
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...Writing Good Multiple-Choice Exams Dawn M. Zimmaro, Ph.D. Measurement and Evaluation Center Telephone: (512) 232-2662 Web: www.utexas.edu/academic/mec Location: Bridgeway Building, 2616 Wichita Street Address: P.O. Box 7246, Austin, TX 78713-7246 Last revised August 19, 2004 1 Table of Contents SECTION Goals of the workshop The KEY to Effective Testing Summary of How Evaluation, Assessment, Measurement and Testing Terms Are Related Course Learning Objectives Abilities and Behaviors Related to Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Illustrative Action Verbs for Defining Objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy Examples of Instructional Objectives for the Cognitive Domain Resources on Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain and Writing Educational Objectives Test Blueprint Description of Multiple-Choice Items Multiple-Choice Item Writing Guidelines Guidelines to Writing Test Items Preparing Your Students for Taking Multiple-Choice Tests Sample Multiple-Choice Items Related to Bloom’s Taxonomy More Sample Multiple-Choice Items Good versus Poor Multiple-Choice Items Activity: Identifying Flawed Multiple-Choice Items Scenario-Based Problem Solving Item Set An Alternative Multiple-Choice Method Guidelines for Administering Examinations Analyzing Multiple-Choice Item Responses Activity: Item Analysis PAGE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11-14 15-17 18 19 20-22 23-24 25-26 27-29 30-32 33-34 35 36-38 39 Last revised August 19, 2004 2 Goals of the Workshop Multiple-choice...
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...encouraged, WorldCom, as one manager says, “encouraged managers to spend whatever was necessary to bring revenue to the door, even if it meant that the long term costs of a project outweighed short term gains” (Accounting Fraud at WorldCom article, pg. 4). Therefore, CFO Sullivan and others subverted the objectives of providing useful information to external users by using accounting entries to achieve targeted performance. 2. The fraud at WorldCom revolved around two accounting irregularities: accrual releases and expense capitalization. a. Explain how these two accounting treatments increased WorldCom’s net income. b. What effect did these accounting treatments have on the company’s balance sheet? A. In regards to accrual releases, GAAP required expected payments to be estimated and matched with revenues in the income statement. This was accomplished however by improperly releasing accruals to pay expected bills. These accruals were...
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...general-purpose language which has been closely associated with the UNIX operating system for which it was developed - since the system and most of the programs that run it are written in C. Many of the important ideas of C stem from the language BCPL, developed by Martin Richards. The influence of BCPL on C proceeded indirectly through the language B, which was written by Ken Thompson in 1970 at Bell Labs, for the first UNIX system on a DEC PDP-7. BCPL and B are "type less" languages whereas C provides a variety of data types. In 1972 Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs writes C and in 1978 the publication of The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie caused a revolution in the computing world. In 1983, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established a committee to provide a modern, comprehensive definition of C. The resulting definition, the ANSI standard, or "ANSI C", was completed late 1988. Error Handling (Exception Handling) in C - (page 2) In this Project file we are going to look at error handling. Although C programming does not provide direct support for error handling (also called exception handling), there are ways to do error handling. Of course the programmer needs to prevent errors during coding and should always test the return values of functions called by the program. A lot of C function calls return a -1 or NULL in case of an error, so quick test on these return values are easily done with for instance an ‘if statement’. So the...
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...translation and build a translator that supports accurate English to Hindi translation. The English input can be of textual, voice or image form and the Hindi output will be in the textual format.. With our research we aim to suggest a way to improve the already available popular translation engines. For this purpose we have used the method of hybrid machine translation. Hybrid machine translation is a method of machine translation that is characterized by the use of multiple machine translation approaches within a single machine translation system. The motivation for developing hybrid machine translation systems stems from the failure of any single technique to achieve a satisfactory level of accuracy. B. Statistical Machine Translation Statistical Machine Translation systems make use of computer algorithms that find out many possible ways of connecting smaller pieces of text together, in order to produce a best translation. Statistical Machine translation basically translates words and phrases along with their statistical likelihood. These are learned automatically from previously translated text, creating a bilingual “database” of translations. A program referred as decoder matches the source code and phrases with the translation databases and searches for all possible translation combinations. An algorithm is then used to select the best translation out of the millions of possible translations and output it. The main advantage of statistical systems is...
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...Social Work Examination Supervision in Social Work Table of Contents SUPERVISION IN SOCIAL WORK Table of Contents Table of Contents I. Introduction and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Individual Supervision and Group Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 III. Supervision Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. Administrative Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 V. Educational Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 VI. Supportive Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 VII. Evaluation/Performance Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 VIII. Miscellaneous Supervision Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Chapter Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Answers and Rationale for Chapter Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...situation, problem, issue, or opportunity that needs addressing. 1. Consider the following example: "Retail sales increases in the 2005 holiday season were below projections. Sales were disappointing because consumers were not confident about economic growth." This is an example of _____. a. an inductive argument b. a deductive argument c. an empirical argument d. a factual argument 2. The acronym, RFP, stands for _____ and refers to the document used to invite research firms to propose ideas for addressing the research needs of the organization. a. request for proposal b. recency frequency population c. research firm proposal d. recognition of problem Objective: Determine the significance, scope, magnitude and feasibility of finding a solution to the situation, problem, issue, or opportunity. 3. Consider the following statements: "Inner-city household interviewing is especially difficult and expensive. This survey involves substantial inner-city household interviewing. The interviewing in this survey will be especially difficult and expensive." This is an example of _____. a. an empirical argument b. an inductive argument c. an exposition d. a deductive argument Objective: Identify ethical issues involved in business research. 4. In a restaurant complaint study, Dr. Jackson used deception to avoid...
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...due to the usual family practice of giving birth. Pro-RH Bill lawmakers have presented the effective measures to control the growing population and provided alternative ways to maintain reproductive health and plausible actions to that program. Amidst all the programs, poor families are seen and cannot sustain the basic necessities of their children and depriving them from enjoying the fullness what is due to for the kids. Young women whose ages range from 14-25 often experience fast hormonal secretions that usually associated with active and rapid biotic potential. Early sexual maturity becomes a primordial factor for fertility and early teenage pregnancy. This then is the scenario that strive the researchers to conduct experiment that provide information on the use of Alstonia Scholaris as a viable material for controlling population. 1.2 Statement of the Problem The project undertaken by the researchers on the Alstonia Scholaris extract as applied to “rabbit” sought to answer the following questions: 1. What is the effect of Alstonia scholaris extract on the biotic potential of “Oryctolagus Cuniculus”? 2. How effective is the use of Alstonia Scholaris extract to the life of “Oryctolagus Cuniculus” in terms of: a. antifertility b. implantation/inhibitory of hormonal activity c. gestation 3. To what extent is the use of Alstonia Scholaris extract before and after mating of the “Oryctolagus Cuniculus” in terms of: a....
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