A personal example

In order to obtain a license to operate a motor vehicle in Virginia before the age of 18, teenagers with a learner s permit are required to take seven two-hour instructional periods of on-the-road experience with an approved driver-training school. For one-half of these sessions they must be the driver the rest of the time they sit in the back seat and perhaps learn through observation. Thus, for seven one-hour sessions Krista drove around town with an instructor in the front seat and one or more students in the back, waiting for their turn at the wheel. This was an opportunity for my daughter to transfer her driver education knowledge to actual performance. 

Driving activators and consequences. On-the-job training obviously requires an 

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Engineering eontrols are designed to eliminate or keep hazards away from a person. Examples inelude maehine guards on equipment, ground fault eireuit interrupters, loeal exhaust ventilation that removes eontam-inated air at the souree, and remote systems (like roboties) used to handle dangerous materials. 

Assume that you want to apply for a job that requires the following qualifications. Write a sentence giving a personal example of each qualification,... 

Our theorizing constrains our observations. As a personal example, I have never conducted a study of precognition. Technically, it would be easier to do than many of the other studies I have done, but my conceptual system, my interlocking network of current theories about reality, simply cannot deal with the idea of knowing about an event before it occurs, before it has been caused. While I never say consciously to myself I will not work with precognition because I don t understand it, ... 

Scoring evaluation This is a pretty good essay with a strong opinion, supported by a personal example that is relevant. The vocabulary use is not as good as it could be, and there are some punctuation, spelling, and usage errors that interfere with the essay s readability. 

I can give you a personal example. A couple of years ago I was lead author on a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need proposal. I quoted some of the same data you did on an early chart, in terms of African American Ph.D.s per year in chemistry. One of the referees wrote back that these data are surely incorrect and the number of students cannot be that small. 

Another student uses a personal example to help her support a point in her essay that contrasts a local food co-op to a big chain grocery store (pages 233-236). By using her friend s experience as an example, the writer shows the reader how a co-op may assist local producers in the community ... 

The second of these routine assumptions is, I believe, valid. Let me illustrate it by a personal example. For about fifteen years, from 1968 to 1984,1 worked on a book on Karl Marx, and eventually felt I got to know him quite well. He was, very obviously, a very emotional person. Moreover, his emotions equally obviously distorted his thinking, both in what he wrote about the communist society and about the process of getting there. His mind seems to have been shaped by two implicit assumptions Whatever is desirable is feasible, and whatever is desirable and feasible is inevitable. The first shows up in his refusal to consider trade-offs between values, and in his beliefs that all good things go together. The second underlies his unwavering belief in the imminent and immanently necessary communist revolution. 

Use an illustration that pertains to the topic. Most oral presentations should begin concretely, and examples and stories serve as good attention steps. Personal examples, particularly those that include humor, tend to work especially well because they illustrate a point and also humanize the speaker. A personal example can also compensate for a relevant experience that the introducer failed to mention. You might say, for example, During my year at CERN,... 

Let me use a personal example. When our children were small we purchased a new car (a Chrysler product). It was a four-door vehicle. When we were driving down the road the back door came opea This was before seat belts and childproof doors. I took the car back to the dealership and I... 

The appropriate quantum mechanical operator fomi of the phase has been the subject of numerous efforts. At present, one can only speak of the best approximate operator, and this also is the subject of debate. A personal historical account by Nieto of various operator definitions for the phase (and of its probability distribution) is in [27] and in companion articles, for example, [130-132] and others, that have appeared in Volume 48 of Physica Scripta T (1993), which is devoted to this subject. (For an introduction to the unitarity requirements placed on a phase operator, one can refer to [133]). In 1927, Dirac proposed a quantum mechanical operator tf), defined in terms of the creation and destruction operators [134], but London [135] showed that this is not Hermitean. (A further source is [136].) Another candidate, e is not unitary. 

A fingerprint ofa chemical structure tries to identify a molecule with some special characteristics, much in the same way as a human fingerprint identifies a person. The characteristic property can, for example, be described by the structure or struc-... 

Specialized training is an absolute requirement for technical service personnel. A typical example is a person involved in supporting a polymer for which the use is the manufacture of rotationaHy molded consumer products. The technical service person is expected to be reasonably familiar with topics such as polymer rheology evaluations, gel-permeation chromatography, rotational mol ding, color science, regulatory requirements for use, mechanical and photochemical behavior of the pigmented polymer, optics, and so forth. Expertise of this variety caimot be expected to be obtained without careful... 

Transparent (Invisible) Flames Some materials have nearly nonluminous flames, which may not be visible, especially in the daytime. For example, hydrogen has a nearly nonvisible flame in the daytime. A person may walk unaware into a hydrogen leak flame. Some other materials, including some alcohols such as methanol, also have nearly nonluminous flames and may be unusually hazardous because the flames cannot be seen in the daytime. 

Sequence errors refer to situations when a person performs a task, or an individual step in a task, out of sequence. For example, charging the reactor before starting the cooling water flow. 

Timing errors occur when a person fails to perform an action within the allotted time, either performing too fast or too slowly. For example, this may include charging a reactor too quickly or too slowly. 

Another common approach is to use an information-processing model to classify human errors. The classification models the information processing which occurs when a person operates and controls complex systems such as processing plants. One such classification (Rouse and Rouse, 1983) identifies six steps in information processing. Exhibit 6.1 lists the six steps, and provides some examples of errors that can occur at each of these steps. 

Let s eonsider lead abatement or asbestos work. These aetivities provide a good example of how hazards are minimized by eontrolling aeeess. Wlien working with either substanee, an enelosure ean be eon-strueted that keeps out unauthorized people and eontains the hazardous substanee. The only persons who should be potentially exposed are those who are trained, qualified, and medieally fit personnel who deal appropriately with the hazard. Workers in the enelosure are proteeted by PPE, respiratory proteetion, engineered ventilation systems sueh as negative air maehines, high-eflfieieney partieulate air (HEPA) vaeuums, and administrative eontrols. 

Some clothing item do values are listed in Table 5.4. For example, the do value of a person wearing a thin shirt, thin trousers, underwear, shoes, and socks estimated by this method would be 0,17 + 0.25 + 0.05 + 0.05 = 0.52 do. If the person were to add a T-shirt under the shirt, the clothing insulation would be expected to increase to 0.6 do. 

For example, a desk chair with a body contact area of 2700 cm- has a Af of 0.1 do. This amount should be added to the insulation of the standing clothing ensemble to obtain the insulation of the ensemble when a person is sitting in the desk chair,... 

For example, the clothing insulation of a person wearing a winter business suit with a standing intrinsic insulation of 1 do would decrease by 0.52 do when the person walks at 90 steps per minute (about 3.7 km/h). Thus the ensemble s intrinsic insulation when walking would be 0.48 do. More complete clothing tables and figures are available in the literature, for example Chapter 8 of the ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals A... 

Different protection factors have been defined. One method is to define it as the ratio of the concentration of a contaminant in the exhaust duct (CJ to the concentration in the breathing zone (C[,) of a person standing in front of the enclosure, for example, a laboratory fume hood ... 

For each quality objective you should have a plan that defines the processes involved in its achievement. Assess these processes and determine where critical decisions are made and who is assigned to make them. Audit the decisions and ascertain whether they were contrary to the objectives. A simple example is where you have an objective of decreasing dependence upon inspection. By examining corrective actions taken to prevent recurrence of nonconformities you can detect whether a person decided to increase the level of inspection in order to catch the nonconformities or considered alternatives. Any person found making such a decision has clearly not understood the quality objective. 

Consider, for example, the transaction made between a person purchasing a replacement lamp for a motor vehicle. How might these requirements apply in such a case ... 

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