Data management project material

Assembling this material is a large data management task to assure the availability and traceability of all needed information with the output of one task fitting the input of another. This requires that quality assurance has been adhered to throughout the PSA project. 

In the fall of 1999, a pilot zeolite barrier was installed at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in Western New York. The WVDP is an environmental management project being conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the cooperation of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Details of the installation are reported by Moore et al. (2000). The clinoptilolite material used in the barrier had previously been studied by Cantrell (1996) for a proposed installation at the DOE Hanford Facility, by Fuhrmann et al. (1995) for use at the WVDP, and by Lee et al. (1998) for the 1998 installation at Chalk River, Ontario. The range of previously estimated distribution coefficients (Kd) was from 650 mL/g (Fuhrmann et al.) to 2600 mL/g (Cantrell). The variation across these studies is most likely attributable to differences in the source water and experimental conditions, although the data interpretation... 

At various facilities that process uranium for defense programs, uranium is released to the atmosphere under controlled conditions, resulting in deposition on the soil and surface waters. Monitoring data from the area surrounding the Fernald Environmental Management Project (formerly the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center) showed that soil contained uranium released from the facility (Stevenson and Hardy 1993). 

To develop a data management plan pertinent to the project, a checklist of the project material is necessary to enhance the planning. The items to be collected include the protocol, annotated case report forms (CRFs), literature, log-in and tracking forms, file structures, coding rules, CRF review conventions, query handling procedure, required edit checklist, central laboratory address/file format, laboratory normal ranges, clinically... 

From the data management perspective, the clinical data coordinator (CDC) is the central team member receiving and distributing data-related information to the project team members. The CDC meets with the project team members to review the project material collected and to elicit the rules and special requirements from the statistician, clinician, safety officer, medical writer and regulatory associates. These project materials, rules and special requirements will be considered in conjunction with data management requirements to develop the data management plan. The CDC should prepare the following documents before the clinical trials are initiated ... 

From the data management perspective, the clinical data coordinator (CDC) is the central team member receiving and to distributing data-related information to the project team members. The CDC meets with the project team members to review the project material collected and to elicit... 

If you are the project manager, the next question is What resources will be needed to carry out the tasks and what will they cost Resources include personnel with certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes data and information materials equipment and facilities (Norton 2008). Estimate the cost of labor and the expenses for each task. Often this process has already been started, in an approximate or generalized manner, possibly for preparation of a proposal that was submitted to the then potential client, owner, customer, or stakeholder. Now detail it for these two reasons ... 

The pilot study is likely to use all the same Quality Management tools that were used for the integration framework development (Chapter 5). However, the limited scope of the pilot study enforces some limitations and compromises—it will not be possible to make changes outside of the department covered by the pilot. Any existing interfaces with other departments must remain the same. This will impact the design phases of the work. For example, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) may currently be prepared locally, in the overall project it might be proposed to develop these centrally. However, for the pilot study it will not be possible develop the central resource so the pilot would have to continue to rely on local resources and there will be no efficiency improvement. 

Of the projects in the database, four completed projects using pump-and-treat provided performance data for initial and final MTBE concentrations. Median concentrations were 27,000 pg/L for before treatment and <1 pg/L for after treatment. The median project duration for these projects was 14 months. Note that these treatment performance figures are based on the data provided by project managers and others in the source materials used to prepare the treatment profiles website. 

To estimate material-specific emissions from the waste treatment processes, landfill and incineration, of EoL cushion vinyl floor covering a supporting spreadsheet of Ecoinvent is used. The results will depend on the assumptions that are made in these models. In this project these assumptions are not studied in detail. Necessary data for the calculation of the burden are, e.g. element composition, water content, energy content, degradability in landfill, etc. Note that the Ecoinvent waste management model estimates emissions based on the element composition and some general characteristics of the materials (like degradability). Detailed... 

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