scholarly journals Risks Associated with Aircraft Maintenance in European Commercial Air Transport

2019 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Jelle Hieminga ◽  
Cengiz Turkoglu
Keyword(s):  
Safety Issue ◽  
Aircraft Maintenance ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Central Repository ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
Incident Reports ◽  
Reporting Tool ◽  
High Level ◽  
Maintenance Process

In the 2016 EASA Annual Safety Report, 1318 incidents were categorised as involving a safety issue related to aircraft maintenance. All the Key Risk Areas, or most frequent outcomes, for aircraft maintenance as a safety issue were shown to be related but associated Rulemaking Tasks have not yet appeared in the 2017-2021 European Plan for Aviation Safety. Categorising EU-wide incident reports appears to be difficult due to the use and construction of the ‘Event Types’, or contributing causes, taxonomy used in the reporting tool. Previously developed taxonomies are either limited in the number of categories due to limited information in reports, or they are aimed more at an investigation than straight reporting. As a result, these taxonomies are not suited for use in a reporting tool, and these taxonomies lack the detail for focused feedback to the maintenance industry. Thus, a two-level taxonomy has been developed within this study, using a high-level overview of the maintenance process as a basis for the first level and a variation of descriptions, both specific and more broad-spectrum, for the second level. A set of 3910 incident reports from the central repository were analysed, causing 2677 incidents to be excluded for a variety of reasons such as a lack of information (the narrative was empty in 1100 reports or 28%), or the use of a language other than English (814 incidents, 21%). The remaining 1232 incident reports were categorised using the new taxonomy. Of these, 361 incidents occurred during installation of components (29%) and 308 incidents were related to maintenance control (25%). The increased level of detail from the new taxonomy allows for identification of procedure types that are more susceptible to errors, such as installing or removing components or deferral of a defect so that an aircraft can be dispatched. This will hopefully lead to increased vigilance as well as further measures to increase safety.

scholarly journals Information challenges on research concerning certified companies in ISO 14001 in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Augusto Vera-Solano ◽  
Julio Eduardo Cañon-Barriga ◽  
Silvia Teresa Morales-Gualdrón
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
High Level

Although the environmental management model ISO 14001 is one of the most adopted in the world, the search for information on certified companies in this standard in Colombia faces great limitations. We analyze the main challenges encountered when undertaking research related to companies that are currently certified in ISO 14001 in the country and how the limited information reduces the possibilities of expanding knowledge. Lack of information makes it difficult to establish the precise number of certified companies, leading to statistical errors and underestimations of the sample size required for some studies, which also produces inaccurate conclusions about the companies’ performance. We found a lack of consolidated statistics of companies certified in ISO 14001 both in Colombia, with an specific focus on the metropolitan area of Valle de Aburrá, with high level of outdatedness of the little information obtained. We propose some guidelines that could improve the process of managing this type of information in the country.

scholarly journals A Walk-In Clinic for Newly Arrived Mentally Burdened Refugees: The Patient Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2275
Author(s):  
Catharina Zehetmair ◽  
Valentina Zeyher ◽  
Anna Cranz ◽  
Beate Ditzen ◽  
Sabine C. Herpertz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Psychiatric Medication ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Past Experiences

Providing refugees with psychosocial support is particularly important considering the high level of mental health problems prevalent in this population. A psychosocial walk-in clinic operating within a state reception and registration center in Germany has been supporting mentally burdened refugees since 2016. This study focused on patients’ perspectives on their mental health burden, the psychosocial walk-in clinic, and future help seeking. We conducted interviews with n = 22 refugees attending the walk-in clinic from March to May 2019. Qualitative analysis focused on the following four topics: (1) mental burden from the patients’ perspective, (2) access to the psychosocial walk-in clinic, (3) perception of counseling sessions, and (4) perception of follow-up treatment. The results show that the majority of interviewees were burdened by psychological and somatic complaints, mostly attributed to past experiences and post-migratory stress. Therapeutic counseling and psychiatric medication were found to be particularly helpful. Most of the participants felt motivated to seek further psychosocial support. Key barriers to seeking psychosocial help included shame, fear of stigma, and lack of information. Overall, the psychosocial walk-in clinic is a highly valued support service for newly arrived refugees with mental health issues.

scholarly journals Hierarchical decision processes that operate over distinct timescales underlie choice and changes in strategy

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (31) ◽  
pp. E4531-E4540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Braden A. Purcell ◽  
Roozbeh Kiani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Neural Mechanism ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Response Strategy ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Decision Strategy ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level

Decision-making in a natural environment depends on a hierarchy of interacting decision processes. A high-level strategy guides ongoing choices, and the outcomes of those choices determine whether or not the strategy should change. When the right decision strategy is uncertain, as in most natural settings, feedback becomes ambiguous because negative outcomes may be due to limited information or bad strategy. Disambiguating the cause of feedback requires active inference and is key to updating the strategy. We hypothesize that the expected accuracy of a choice plays a crucial rule in this inference, and setting the strategy depends on integration of outcome and expectations across choices. We test this hypothesis with a task in which subjects report the net direction of random dot kinematograms with varying difficulty while the correct stimulus−response association undergoes invisible and unpredictable switches every few trials. We show that subjects treat negative feedback as evidence for a switch but weigh it with their expected accuracy. Subjects accumulate switch evidence (in units of log-likelihood ratio) across trials and update their response strategy when accumulated evidence reaches a bound. A computational framework based on these principles quantitatively explains all aspects of the behavior, providing a plausible neural mechanism for the implementation of hierarchical multiscale decision processes. We suggest that a similar neural computation—bounded accumulation of evidence—underlies both the choice and switches in the strategy that govern the choice, and that expected accuracy of a choice represents a key link between the levels of the decision-making hierarchy.

scholarly journals IDENTIFIKASI TINGKAT KEPATUHAN PASIEN GERIATRI YANG MENDERITA HIPERTENSI DISERTAI PENYAKIT PENYERTA DI RSU PANCARAN KASIH MANADO PERIODE SEPTEMBER-OKTOBER 2018

PHARMACON ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Widia N Runtuwene ◽  
Weny I Wiyono ◽  
Adithya Yudistira
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Geriatric Patients ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Consecutive Sampling ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Scale 8

ABSTRACTHypertension is one of chronic disease with commonly treatment for lifetime. The adherence of geriatric patients in following treatment very important that doesn’t happen can lead to death. This type of research is a descriptive study. The population of this study amounted to 465 patients. The number of samples taken was 40 patients. The sampling technique is consecutive sampling. The level of adherence was measured using the Modified MoriskyAdherence Scale-8 (MMAS-8)questionnaire. From the results of this study it can be concluded that geriatric patients who do treatment at the manado pancaran kasih hospital have a high level of adherence of 10%, have a moderate level of adherence of 40%, and have a low level of adherence of 50%. The results of this study found a problem related to the adherence of geriatric patients aged 60-69 years who took medication at the manado pancaran kasih hospital, namely because of forgetfulness and lack of information obtained from health workers regarding the patients condition and the importance of drugs to drink continue.Keywords : Hypertension, Geriatric, Adherence. ABSTRAKHipertensi merupakan salah satu penyakit kronis dengan pengobatan yang umumnya seumur hidup.Kepatuhan pasien geriatri dalam menjalani pengobatan sangat penting agar tidak terjadi komplikasi berbagai penyakit yang dapat berujung pada kematian. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif.Populasi dari penelitian ini berjumlah 465 pasien.Jumlah sampel yang di ambil sebanyak 40 pasien.Teknik pengambilan sampel secara consecutive sampling.Tingkat kepatuhan di ukur dengan menggunakan Kuesioner MMAS-8 (Modified MoriskyAdherence Scale). Hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan pasien geriatri yang melakukan pengobatan di RSU Pancaran Kasih Manado memiliki tingkat kepatuhan tinggi sebanyak 10%, memiliki tingkat kepatuhan sedang sebanyak 40%, dan memiliki tingkat kepatuhan rendah sebanyak 50%. Hasil penelitian ini mendapatkan masalah terkait kepatuhan pasien geriatri yang berusia 60-69 yang melakukan pengobatan di RSU Pancaran Kasih Manado yaitu karena lupa dan kurangya informasi yang didapatkan pasien dari tenaga kesehatan terkait kondisi pasien dan pentingnya pengobatan secara kontinu.Kata Kunci : Hipertensi, Geriatri, Kepatuhan.

scholarly journals Quality of Service to the Regional Road Transport Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Suela E.Shpuza
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level

Performance is measured and done, the quality represents a key element to achieve the performance, especially customer service quality. In response to the pressure of globalization, the market increasingly competitive and volatile market dynamics that, many organizations actively seeking ways to add value to their services and improve their quality of service. Organizations usually tend to make their operations efficient priority. This process begins with the assessment of nevojave customers, their requirements and assessing the performance of domestic human resources in organization and performance depends on the outcome of the estimated earlier. Since this process can proceed in different directions. The causes of these results may be the lack of information and support of high-level management, performance standards unclear, inaccuracies assessors, very large number of forms to be completed and the use of software for the opposite purpose.

scholarly journals ANALISIS RISIKO KEKERINGAN DI KABUPATEN BANTUL PROVINSI D.I. YOGYAKARTA

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Annisa Mu'awanah Sukmawati ◽  
Puji Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Drought Risk ◽  
Drought Event ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High

Bantul Regency is a district in Yogyakarta Province which has geographic, geological, hydrological, and demographic characteristics that are likely to cause drought. Drought event in Bantul Regency may have significant impacts on various aspects in line with the characteristics of drought impacts which are complex and cross-sectoral. This study addresses to analyze the level of risk of drought with observation units in 75 villages in the Bantul Regency. The risk analysis was carried out by comparing the time period of the 10 years, i.e. 2008 and 2018 to observe the shift of risk areas of drought in Bantul Regency. The research was conducted using quantitative research methods with quantitative descriptive and mapping analysis. The analysis steps are drought hazard analysis, vulnerability analysis, and drought risk analysis. The analysis shows that during the last 10 years, Kabupaten Bantul has been experiencing an increasing number of villages classified as high risk of drought, both in urban and rural areas. In 2008 there were 15 villages (20%) and increased to 21 villages (28%) in 2018 that were classified as very very high level. Meanwhile, in 2008 there were 30 villages (40%) in 2008 and increased to 32 villages (42.7%) in 2018 that were classified as very high level. It caused by the increasing probability of drought as well as vulnerability. The analysis results can be used as input for stakeholders to take mitigation and anticipation actions to reduce the impact of drought based on the spatial characteristics of the risk areas.

scholarly journals Generator Assessment of Hydro Power Station Adequacy after Reconstruction from Classical to HIS SF6 Substation

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 729
Author(s):  
Srete Nikolovski ◽  
Goran Slipac ◽  
Emir Alibašić
Keyword(s):  
State Space Model ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Space Model ◽  
System Operator ◽  
Adequacy Assessment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Maintenance Process ◽  
Reliability And Availability

<p>Reliability analysis of substations and generator assessment of power plant stations are very important elements in a design and maintenance process. This paper presents a generator adequacy assessment of a classical “H” scheme for an open conventional substation, which is often used, and a new HIS - High Integrated Switchgear with SF6 gas isolation. Generator adequacy indices of both types of classical and HIS switchgear were compared and the results showed a high level of reliability and availability of the HIS presented substation. The input data were the annual reports of Croatian TSO-Transmission System Operator (HOPS) and statistics of operation events of Croatian National Electricity (HEP Inc.). For the HIS substation, the input reliability data were used from relevant international literature since only few of HIS substations are installed in Croatia. The generator is modelled with a three-state Markov state space model and Monte Carlo simulations were used for the generator assessment analysis. Adequacy indices LOLP and EDNS were obtained using DIgSILENT software.</p>

scholarly journals Quantifying the risks of TB infection to cattle posed by badger excreta

1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. HUTCHINGS ◽  
S. HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Mycobacterium Bovis ◽  
Disease Prevalence ◽  
Deterministic Approach ◽  
Main Route ◽  
South West ◽  
Route Of Transmission ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
High Level ◽  
South West England

Despite strong circumstantial evidence to suggest that the main route of TB transmission from badgers to cattle is via contaminated badger excreta, it is unclear whether the associated risks are high enough to account for the prevalence of the disease in south-west England. To decide whether this was a viable route of transmission, cattle contact with badger excreta was investigated using a deterministic approach to quantify the risks to cattle posed by badger excreta. Levels of investigative and grazing contacts between cattle and badger urine and faeces could each account for the disease prevalence in south-west England. An infection probability of 3·7×10−4 per bite from pasture contaminated with badger urine infected with Mycobacterium bovis could account for the prevalence of TB in cattle in south-west England. Infection probabilities of 6·9×10−7 per investigation and 1·1×10−7 per bite from badger latrines could each account for the prevalence of TB in cattle in the south-west. When considering only the high risk areas of south-west England these bounds fell by a factor of eight. However, badger excreta may still constitute a high level of risk to cattle. The levels of cattle contact with badger excreta are far higher than previously thought, suggesting that it is the probability of infection per given contact with infected badger excreta which has the greater influence on the probability of transmission and not the level of contact. The infection probability per cattle contact with infected badger excreta is in all likelihood extremely low.

Upgrading Society With Smart Government

2017 ◽  
pp. 272-304
Author(s):  
Badreya Al-Jenaibi
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
High Level ◽  
Smart Government

This paper aims to explore the goals and motives of electronic government utilization among the citizens, the motives of their preference as well as the extent of use of these smart applications in the UAE. Also, it investigates the basic element of Smart Government uses within the federal authorities, response times, and recommendations for improving smart government. This study answers the following questions: What is the purpose of creating smart government? What are the users' aims in using smart government and what level of satisfaction do they experience? To augment this research, 450 questionnaires were distributed among federal authorities' users in all 7 emirates in the UAE. In addition, 18 interviews were conducted with managers in the federal government. The users reported high levels of satisfaction using smart government technologies, indicating a high level of usage and trust. The results also show that higher service speed contributes to higher levels of satisfaction. Managers are very optimistic about Smart Government, but some challenges remain, such as the existence of a lack of information or guidelines for using smart government. There is currently no central government department for applying smart government, and no clear vision or philosophies regarding smart government.

Performance Measurement and E-Reporting

2012 ◽  
pp. 544-560
Author(s):  
Kathryn Kloby
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Data Manipulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Performance Measurement Systems ◽  
High Level

Public sector performance measurement systems are often designed by high-level administrators and agency staff. In many instances performance reports are treated as internal documents or provide limited information of how government actions impact the lives of citizens or fall short of expectations. Performance measurement and reporting approaches, however, are gradually changing to include citizens in the process and to communicate results in a more robust way to the public. This chapter explores the topic of e-reporting and the potential it offers to engage the public in the assessment of government performance. Three exemplary programs are examined: Virginia Performs, Maryland’s BayStat, and King County AIMs High. Each offers useful techniques for describing program objectives, showing government progress, making data available, and exploring interactive mechanisms that support data manipulation or customization. The chapter concludes with a discussion of future areas of research.

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