Activity metrics

The metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of building protection should be defined on the basis of the goals and objectives of protection. For example, if the goal is to maintain critical activities, metrics for evaluation might be continuity of operation and time to recover from an incident or to restore services. If the goal is to protect occupants, then metrics might include fraction of occupants exposed (FOE) or lives saved. Other criteria for evaluation that must be considered... 

The first round of so-called leading indicators was little more than a measurement of safety-related activities hours of safety training, attendance at safety meetings, participation in safety programs, etc. OSHA s crackdown on incentives that could potentially suppress reporting of accidents drove many organizations to base their incentives on these activity metrics rather than simply not... 

The oxygen uptake rate (OUR) provides a metabolic activity metric for aerobic fermentations ... 

The first model reduction algorithm based on the activity metric is shown in Fig. 2.2 and is called Model Order Reduction Algorithm (MORA). Given the full model, the goal of MORA is to order the importance of the energy elements in that model as given by their activity and reduce the size of the model based on a user-supplied threshold of the percent of the total activity to be retained in the reduced model. 

At the end of the simulation of the full model, the time response of the output variables in (2.3) is available for the activity analysis. Given these output variables, the element power is calculated. Then, the activity metric is calculated using (2.2). Finally, the activity index in (2.5) of each element is calculated. The activity indices are then sorted in descending order to identify the elements with high activity, considered more important, and low activity, considered less important. The result of the sorting process is the ranking of the element importance and it is represented with the vector r as shown in (2.17). The first element of this vector points to... 

J.A. Kypuros and R.G. Longoria Variable fidelity modeling of vehicle ride dynamics using an element activity metric. ASME 2002 International Mechanictil Engineering Congress and Exposition 71, 525-534 (2002)... 

The following are examples of activity metrics that can be used to monitor and assess your safety management system in a positive manner. Modify and adjust for your organization. 

In order to achieve the most accurate results, we analysed all four HRV feature variables (see Section 3.1) and all three EMG feature variables (see Sections 3.2). We chose to use the standard deviation of Heart Rate Variability (Time Series) as our mental load metric and the standard deviation of EMG (EMGSD) as our muscle activity metric, as these measures proved to be the most consistent. 

Dimeihylamine, C2H7N, (CH3)2NH. Colourless, inflammable liquid with an ammoniacal odour, mp -96" C, b.p. 7°C. Occurs naturally in herring brine. Prepared in the laboratory by treating nitrosodimetbyl-aniline with a hot solution of sodium hydroxide. Dimethylamine is largely used in the manufacture of other chemicals. These include the solvents dimethylacetamide and dimethyl-formamide, the rocket propellant unsym-metrical dimethylhydrazine, surface-active agents, herbicides, fungicides and rubber accelerators. 

A particular vibration will give an absorption peak in the IR spectrum only if the dipole moment of the molecule changes dunng the vibration Which vibration of carbon dioxide the sym metric stretch or the antisymmetric stretch is infrared active 2... 

Metrologia International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) Pavilion de Breteuil Parc de St. Cloud, Prance Includes articles on scientific metrology worldwide, improvements in measuring techniques and standards, definitions of units, and the activities of various bodies created by the International Metric Convention. 

Total reserves of thorium at commercial price in 1995 was estimated to be >2 x 10 metric tons of Th02 (H)- Thorium is a potential fuel for nuclear power reactors. It has a 3—4 times higher natural abundance than U and the separation of the product from Th is both technically easier and less expensive than the enrichment of in However, side-reaction products, such as and the intense a- and y-active decay products lead to a high... 

Excluding Eastern European countries and China where production figures have not been pubHshed, the world production capacity of activated carbon was estimated to be 375,000 metric tons in 1990 (35). The price of most products was 0.70 to 5.50 /kg, but some specialty carbons were more expensive (36). Eorty percent of the production capacity was in the United States, 30% in Western Europe, 20% in Japan, and 10% in other Pacific Rim countries (Table 2). 

Economic Aspects. CMC is the most widely used cellulose ether. Excluding the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, from which httie data are available, world consumption of cmde and purified grades totaled approximately 123,000 metric tons in 1987 (Table 2). Annual growth rate is nominal at 1—2%. The total volume in the United States declined in the 1980s from —32,000 metric tons in 1981 to —19,500 in 1987 because of decreased oil well drilling activity, an important outiet. 

Japan was the lea ding producer of iodine in the 1980s, producing nearly 7000 metric tons per year. Elemental iodine was released into brine by treatment with sodium nitrate or chlorine. The free iodine was then adsorbed on activated carbon. It was stripped from the carbon with sodium hydroxide followed by acidification to form a slurry of elemental iodine ... 

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