Contract definition

In another randomized, double-blind trial in 10 936 subjects in areas of the USA in which Ljme disease is endemic, either recombinant B. burgdorferi OspA with adjuvant or placebo was given initially and at 1 and 12 months (9). After two injections, 22 subjects given vaccine and 43 given placebo contracted definite Lyme disease vaccine efficacy was 49% (95% Cl = 15, 69%). In the second... 

Stage II—planning and design. This stage terminates with Major contracts Let. It includes base design, cost and schedule planning, contract definitions, and detailed planning of the project. 

As stated above the Surveyor s role will include an assessment of the yard s quality control department including the suppliers of any contracted NDE services. The Surveyor will look for the employment of qualified personnel, the availability of adequate inspection procedures and the presentation of definitive NDE reports. 

The accuracy of a fixed capital estimate tends to be a function of the design effort involved. As the project definition is refined, the estimates evolve from the various preliminary phases, ie, order of magnitude, predesign, factor estimates, etc, into the more detailed estimates used for budget authorization, project control, and contracts. At the same time, the uncertainty in the estimate decreases from 50% to as Htfle as 5%. 

The combination of the contributions should result in complete process safety information for the toll. As you can see in this definition, there are many facets to both sides of the tolling contract that can be impacted by either party s philosophy of process safety. 

Contracts with the federal government require compliance with Executive Order Nos. 11625 and 12138 to utilize small and small disadvantaged businesses. The contractor/subcontractor must complete a copy of the representations and certifications providing self-certification of business classification under existing federal definitions. The representations and certifications also provide tax identification information required by the Internal Revenue Service. The original of the representation and certification form should be sent to regional purchasing and a copy included in the project file. 

There is a clear definition of the purpose of the product or service you are being contracted to supply. 

The definition of nonconformity in ISO 8402 states that it is the nonfulfillment of specified requirements therefore a nonconforming product is one that does not conform to the specified requirements. Specified requirements are either requirements prescribed by the customer and agreed by the supplier in a contract for products or services, or are requirements prescribed by the supplier which are perceived as satisfying a market need. This limits the term nonconformity to situations where you have failed to meet customer requirements. However, ISO 8402 1987 suggests that nonconformity also applies to the absence of one or more quality system elements, but clearly the requirements of clause 4.13 cannot be applied to nonconformity with quality s /stem requirements. Both ISO 9001 and ISO 9004 only address nonconformity in the context of products, processes, and services and when addressing quality system elements the term deficiencies is used. Some auditors use the term nonconformity to describe a departure from the requirements of ISO 9001 but it would be preferable if they chose the term noncompliance to avoid any confusion. The requirements of clause 4.13 therefore only apply to products, processes, and services and not to activities, quality system elements, or procedures. 

Although the standard does not recognize any classification of nonconformities, the practical application of nonconformity controls requires controls to be balanced with the severity of the nonconformity. It is not necessary to seek concessions from a customer against requirements that have not been specified, or seek design authority approval for workmanship imperfections. The definition of the term defect in ISO 8402, and the fact that there are many requirements other than those specified in a contract or needed to satisfy market needs, demands that it is sensible to classify nonconformities into three categories ... 

If a quality record was intended to be any document generated or used by the quality system, the definition would surely have indicated this. If we decompose the definition further, requirements for quality are defined in ISO 8402 as the expression of the needs or their translation into a set of quantitatively stated requirements for the characteristics of an entity to enable its realization and examination. Clearly, such a requirement would be a contract, product specification, design requirement, etc. This implies that any product verification records are quality records, but it rules out any recorded information as being a quality record. 

The impact of this requirement depends upon what constitutes the specified requirements. The standard does not require you to demonstrate conformance with every requirement of ISO 9001. However, if your customer has invoked ISO 9001 in the contract, this clause requires that you maintain sufficient records to demonstrate compliance. As stated elsewhere in this book, there is no definition clarifying what specified requirements are. If specified requirements are a//the requirements that you have specified in your quality system, your plans, procedures, specifications, etc., this requirement may well be viewed as the most onerous in the standard. A pragmatic approach to take is to declare in your quality manual that the specified requirements are specified customer requirements . 

Dissipative systems whether described as continuous flows or Poincare maps are characterized by the presence of some sort of internal friction that tends to contract phase space volume elements. They are roughly analogous to irreversible CA systems. Contraction in phase space allows such systems to approach a subset of the phase space, C P, called an attractor, as t — oo. Although there is no universally accepted definition of an attractor, it is intuitively reasonable to demand that it satisfy the following three properties ([ruelle71], [eckmanSl]) ... 

The proof is by induction. It is clearly true for two factors since then it reduces to the definition of the contraction symbol. Furthermore, it is sufficient to prove the theorem under the assumption that Z is a creation operator and that all the operators UV XY are destruction operators. If UV- - -XY are all destruction operators and Z is a creation operator, we may then add any number of creation operators to the left of all factors on both sides of Eq. (10-196) within the N product, without impairing the validity of our theorem, since the contraction between two creation operators gives zero. If on the other hand Z is a destruction operator and UV - - - are creation operators, then Eq. (10-196) reduces to a trivial identity... 

Matter can also be categorized into three distinct phases solid, liquid, and gas. An object that is solid has a definite shape and volume that cannot be changed easily. Trees, automobiles, ice, and coffee mugs are all in the solid phase. Matter that is liquid has a definite volume but changes shape quite easily. A liquid flows to take on the shape of its container. Gasoline, water, and cooking oil are examples of common liquids. Solids and liquids are termed condensed phases because of their well-defined volumes. A gas has neither specific shape nor constant volume. A gas expands or contracts as its container expands or contracts. Helium balloons are filled with helium gas, and the Earth s atmosphere is made up of gas that flows continually from place to place. Molecular pictures that illustrate the three phases of matter appear in Figure 1-12. 

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