Government Data Banks

Some of the kinds of data available are engineering, metrology, reliability and maintainability data, failure experience, and safety hazards and experiences. 

A special part of the program is the ALERT program. GIDEP immediately notifies all participants of actual or potential problems with parts, components, materials, manufacturing processes, test equipment, or safety conditions. The list seems almost infinite and very long per industry, but here are just a very small handful of other useful U.S. government sources (many countries have their own information sources)  

General data that can be useful— https //www.data.gov/ 

Chemical Hazards and Emergency Medical Management— http //chemm. nlm.nih.gov/ 

NIOSH Pocket Guide To Chemical Hazards— http //www.cdc.gov/niosh/ npg/default.html 

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This huge data file covers over 4500 potentially hazardous chemical substances. It contains information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency-handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, and related areas. All data are referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports and selected primary journal literature. HSDB is peer-reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel (SRP), a committee of experts in the major subject areas within the data bank s scope. (Data-Star, DIMDI, STN Easy, TOXNET available as part of TOMES PLUS by Micromedex). Household Products Database ... 

Through the lACs, industry has access to some 10 million documents, one of the world s largest repositories of technical data. Nearly two million of these documents are NASA reports covering every field of aerospace activity. In addition, the data bank includes the continually updated contents of many scientific and technical journals, plus thousands of published and unpublished reports compiled by industrial researchers and by government agencies other than NASA. Each month another 50,000 documents are added to this wealth of technical information. 

Large libraries have been replaced by small massive digital memory storage units governed by a central computer linked to a vast terminal network. These are the so-called data banks or data bases , a homogeneous collection of information Items stored on magnetic media and accessible by computers. They differ from other Information media In three essential aspects, namely ... 

Winston SJ, Solar Energy Information Data Bank (1981) Ethanol fuels use, production economics, 1st edn. US Government Printing Office, Golden... 

The rules that govern the formation of specific interfaces are only partly understood, and much of what we know about them derives from the data acquired over the years by structural biologists, and stored in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The PDB contained over 96,000 entries at the end of 2013, and more than 9000 new entries have been deposited that year. These entries report the structure of many binary protein-protein complexes and oligomeric (multisubunit) proteins and of a few large assemblies such as ATP synthase" or the ribosome. " The PDB is a rich source of information on protein-protein interaction, and the protein-protein complexes present in it have been subjected to a number of generic studies over the years.These studies stressed the diversity of the protein-protein interfaces, but they also pointed out some common properties. Features such as the interface size, geometry, chemical composition, and conservation in evolution can be used in modeling protein-protein interaction, and they have been the basis of a bevy of computational approaches in recent years. 

Once recorded, the data cannot be rewritten, and short of destruction of the disk, cannot be erased. WORM disks are being used for archival purposes or in documentation-intensive applications such as insurance, banking, or government. 

All of these examples for estimating are per something. The information for these types of estimates can be obtained from the Internet, technical literature, government, banks, data files of cost engineering or accounting, and the service providers. 

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