Applying the Safety and Environmental Risk and Reliability Model (SERM) for Malaysian Langat River Collision Aversion

2013 ◽  
pp. 193-225
Author(s):  
Oladokun Sulaiman Olanrewaju ◽  
Ab Saman Ab Kader
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Reliability Model ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Risk Quantification ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accident Frequency ◽  
Water Transportation ◽  
Reliable Design ◽  
Accident Scenarios

Collision accident remains a big threat to coastal water transportation operation. Occurrence of a collision event exposes vessel owners and operators as well as the public to risk. The nature of the threat can be worrisome; it may lead to loss of life, damage to the environment, disruption of operation, and injuries. This makes hybrid analysis of accident frequency and consequence for risk quantification of accident scenarios through stochastic tools very imperative for reliable design and exercise of technocrat stewardship of safety and safeguard of the environmental. The study involves a predictive model for collision risk and mitigation option for aversion of collision incident. Accident frequency and consequence are obtained using probability tools. Validity of the result is checked with reliability tools. Findings of the study were checked with subsystem and uncertainty risk-contributing factors in order to arrive at a sustainable decision support for collision aversion for inland water transportation. This chapter discusses the result and validation of implementation of the Safety and Environmental Risk and Reliability Model (SERM) for aversion of collision accident for vessel navigating for inland waterways.

Applying the Safety and Environmental Risk and Reliability Model (SERM) for Malaysian Langat River Collision Aversion

2015 ◽  
pp. 1180-1215
Author(s):  
Oladokun Sulaiman Olanrewaju ◽  
Ab Saman Ab Kader
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Reliability Model ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Risk Quantification ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accident Frequency ◽  
Water Transportation ◽  
Reliable Design ◽  
Accident Scenarios

Collision accident remains a big threat to coastal water transportation operation. Occurrence of a collision event exposes vessel owners and operators as well as the public to risk. The nature of the threat can be worrisome; it may lead to loss of life, damage to the environment, disruption of operation, and injuries. This makes hybrid analysis of accident frequency and consequence for risk quantification of accident scenarios through stochastic tools very imperative for reliable design and exercise of technocrat stewardship of safety and safeguard of the environmental. The study involves a predictive model for collision risk and mitigation option for aversion of collision incident. Accident frequency and consequence are obtained using probability tools. Validity of the result is checked with reliability tools. Findings of the study were checked with subsystem and uncertainty risk-contributing factors in order to arrive at a sustainable decision support for collision aversion for inland water transportation. This chapter discusses the result and validation of implementation of the Safety and Environmental Risk and Reliability Model (SERM) for aversion of collision accident for vessel navigating for inland waterways.

The Role and Perceptions of Independent Audit Partners in the Governmental Audit Market

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne H. Lowensohn ◽  
Frank Collins
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk Factors ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Audit Firm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audit Market ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Independent Audit

Audits are the primary means of monitoring that public funds are appropriately spent by governmental entities. Currently, independent auditors (rather than governmental auditors) are the primary suppliers of governmental audit services, despite the fact that many of them view governmental audits as “secondary” (AICPA 1987). Furthermore, nongovernmental auditors are believed to be less “independent” and more prone to lose sight of the programmatic demand to safeguard the public trust (Power 1997) than governmental auditors. To better understand the supply of governmental audit services, this study investigates independent audit firm partner opinions of governmental audits and their motivation to pursue these engagements. Multiple regression results of our data reveal that partners are more likely to pursue governmental audits if they believe that desirable intrinsic and extrinsic rewards are attainable through performing these audits. Furthermore, environmental risk factors—an active political climate and authoritative changes—reduce partner motivation to pursue governmental audits. It is suggested that environmental risk factors disrupt the comfortable principal/agent relationship of the auditor and auditee because the relationships have become decoupled (abstracted) from the audit's programmatic mission.

Preface to Recent Studies Involving the RMS Titanic

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (02) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Author(s):  
William H. Garzke
Keyword(s):  
Remotely Operated Vehicles ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Deep Diving ◽  
Modern Computer

The loss of the RMS Titanic has fascinated the public for nearly a century. When Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck in September 1985, it was determined that the ship had sustained a hull failure and another visit in 1986 found that a portion of the midsection of the ship was missing. Recent use of deep diving Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) and modern computer techniques have enabled evidence that has been recovered or seen on the seabed to be analyzed to determine what really caused this magnificent ship to sink and break apart. Yes, the ship did collide with an iceberg, but were there other contributing factors?

High national acceptance for COVID-19 contact tracing technologies in Taiwan (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Garrett ◽  
Yuwen Wang ◽  
Joshua P. White ◽  
Yoshihisa Kashima ◽  
Simon Dennis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Privacy Measures ◽  
Credible Intervals

BACKGROUND Governments worldwide have introduced COVID-19 tracing technologies. Taiwan, a world leader in controlling the virus’ spread, has introduced the Taiwan ‘Social Distancing App’ to facilitate COVID-19 contact tracing. However, for these technologies to be effective, they must be accepted and used by the public. OBJECTIVE Our study aimed to determine public acceptance for three hypothetical tracing technologies: a centralized Government App, a decentralized Bluetooth App (e.g., Taiwan’s Social Distancing App), and a Telecommunication tracing technology; and model what factors contributed to their acceptance. METHODS Four nationally representative surveys were conducted in April 2020 sampling 6,000 Taiwanese residents. Perceptions and impacts of COVID-19, government effectiveness, worldviews, and attitudes towards and acceptance of one-of-three hypothetical tracing technologies were assessed. RESULTS Technology acceptance was high across all hypothetical technologies (67% - 73%) and improved with additional privacy measures (82% - 88%). Bayesian modelling (using 95% highest density credible intervals) showed data sensitivity and perceived poor COVID-19 policy compliance inhibited technology acceptance. By contrast, technology benefits (e.g., returning to activities, reducing virus spread, lowering the likelihood of infection), higher education, and perceived technology privacy, security, and trust, were all contributing factors to overall acceptance. Bayesian ordinal probit models revealed higher COVID-19 concern for other people than for one’s self. CONCLUSIONS Taiwan is currently using a range of technologies to minimize the spread of COVID-19 as the country returns to normal economic and social activities. We observed high acceptance for COVID-19 tracing technologies among the Taiwanese public, a promising and necessary finding for the successful introduction of Taiwan’s new ‘Social Distancing App’. Policy makers may capitalize on this acceptance by focusing attention towards the App’s benefits, privacy and security measures, making the App’s privacy measures transparent to the public, and emphasizing App uptake and compliance among the public. CLINICALTRIAL Not applicable.

scholarly journals The representation and tenure of female principals in public enterprises in emerging markets: A protracted dearth?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-73
Author(s):  
Ralph Marenga
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Reduced Representation ◽  
Female Principals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Robust Implementation ◽  
Implementation Gaps

The reduced representation and tenure of women as public enterprise (PE) principals in Namibia as an emerging market and developing country are concerning (Mboti, 2014; Menges, 2020). The contributing factors are an element literature fails to address explicitly in the Namibian case. This paper, therefore, aims to consolidate evidence on whether the underrepresentation and limited tenures of female principals in Namibian PEs signal a protracted dearth of women in such positions. Methodically, a desk review is used to analyse the literature. Key findings of this paper identify the absence of top-down hands-on leadership; legal and policy implementation gaps; failure to declare gender diversity as imperative in the public sector; failure to focus on helping women gain broad line experience early on, among others, as contributing factors that have disadvantaged female principals in Namibian PEs. The challenges women face in being appointed or completing their tenure as PE principals over the years signal a protracted dearth of women in positions of PE principals in Namibia. Understanding these dynamics is relevant for enhancing Namibia’s policy efforts to curb the further proliferation of patriarchy as nuanced in the glass ceiling. This paper recommends the robust implementation of existing anti-patriarchy legislation.

scholarly journals A Research on Multi-View Video Summarization Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6837-6846
Keyword(s):  
Video Summarization ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Original Video ◽  
Multiple Views ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Still Images ◽  
Maximum Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surveillance Cameras ◽  
Accident Scenarios

Video Surveillance System uses video cameras to capture images and videos that can be compressed, stored and send to place with the limited set of monitors .Now a Days all the public places such as bank, educational institutions, Offices, Hospitals are equipped with multiple surveillance cameras having overlapping field of view for security and environment monitoring purposes. A Video Summarization is a technique to generate the summary of entire Video Content either by still images or through video skim. The summarized video length should be less than the original video length and it should covers maximum information from the original video. Video summarization studies concentrating on monocular videos cannot be applied directly to multiple-view videos due to redundancy in multiple views. Generating Summary for Surveillance videos is more challenging because, videos Captured by surveillance cameras is long, contains uninteresting events, same scene recorded in different views leading to inter-view dependencies and variation in illuminations. In this paper, we present a survey on the research work carried on video summarization techniques for videos captured through multiple views. The summarized video generated can be used for the analysis of post-accident scenarios, identifying suspicious events, theft in public which supports Crime department for the investigation purposes.

User Perception towards Ride hail Service: A case of Nagpur city, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
B. Raghuram Kadali
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
University Campus ◽  
User Perception ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shared Service

In recent times, there is an increase in the utilization of the ride-hail service (viz., mobile application-based shared service) by the younger generation due to tremendous changes in technology, extensive usage of smartphones, and perceived convenience during travelling. For evaluating ride-hail service further, it is necessary to understand the user perception towards the ride-hail service and public transportation system (viz., bus in this case) to efficiently plan the public transportation services. Hence, the present study analyzes user perception while making trips, using ride-hail service and public transport buses. A long stretch of 3.8 km has been selected in the Nagpur city for the study and the stretch attracts a good number of trips by ride-hailing and public transportation. To perform the analysis, a survey has been conducted in the stretch which includes an online survey (viz., based on the Google form) and an offline survey (viz., at selected bus stops on the route between university campus and shopping complex). A binary logit model has been developed to understand the user perception towards ride-hail service and to identify the significant contributing factors towards the preference of the ride-hail service over the public transport bus. From the model results, it has been noted that age, accessibility, waiting time, travel time, income, and travel cost of the trip are the most significant contributing factors that affect user decision for availing the ride-hail service. It has been concluded from the study that the inferences obtained would be useful in the direction of developing warrants for transport planners and policymakers to improve the service quality of public transport buses (viz., frequency and routes) in cities especially in the Indian context.

Catharine Market and Its Neighborhood

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Baics
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Public Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Agglomeration

This chapter examines the neighborhood setting, which provided the immediate economic, social, and cultural contexts of the public markets. Through a case study of Catharine Market, it documents the piecemeal process by which the neighborhood marketplace was assembled, along with the consolidation of its economic agglomeration, internal social and spatial order, everyday functioning, formal and informal management, and daily relations to customers. By the early nineteenth century, Catharine Market served as one of Gotham's largest and most thriving food emporia. It functioned as the regular meeting point for diverse participants in the provisions trade: neighborhood food vendors, including butchers, hucksters, and peddlers; Long Island and other New York region farmers; fishermen harvesting the city's plentiful coastal and inland waterways; and, of course, the area's booming and diverse population of merchants, artisans, and laborers shopping daily at this marketplace.

Development on Water Transport System in Sri Lanka with Available Water Resources

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3458-3465
Author(s):  
T.D.C. Pushpakumara ◽  
◽  
U.L.P. Nimesh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Past History ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Western Province ◽  
Water Transportation

Traffic congestion is an enormous problem at peak hours in western province. Existing transport system is not capable to overcome these complexity situations. Therefore, Srilankan government needs to find out different mode of transport to save time and money and finally economy of the country. In the past history, there was a rich water transportation system over the country. Specially, the western province has a well-distributed network of inland waterways, comprising of main rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and tanks. Most of the time, the existing waterways were used for freight transportation (timber, sand, brick, and tiles. compare to Public transportation. The study is to determine the efficient use of waterways for the public transportation focusing the travel time and fuel consumption. The existing water way network was map and find availability of other network connectivity using ArcGIS and Google Earth Pro software. Then compare it with an existing public transportation mode (bus) and checked the suitability of usage of water transportation as an alternative to reduce the existing traffic congestion problem. And proposed water way transport system, that capable of potential and strategic way to reduce the traffic congestion problem in Colombo and its sub urban areas.

scholarly journals Environmental risk management. Forecasting and modeling of emergency risk management situations

2018 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 06030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaly Kas’yanov ◽  
Vadim Danilchenko ◽  
Vasily Amelin ◽  
Valeria Tolmacheva
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Environmental Risk Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Emergency Risk Management ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

For processes of environmental risk management, the results of a study of its perception are important. The identified priorities in the public concern about the state of the environment should be taken into account when preparing the necessary environmental measures. The prevention of risk or its reduction should take into account not only quantitative, but also qualitative characteristics of risk, which are caused by various factors and mechanisms of risk perception. Risk perception research data is essential for adequate risk communication, so managers involved in risk management should be interested in increasing the use of such data.

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