Organisational characteristics

The organisational characteristics which have an influence on safety-related behaviour at work... 

With the greater emphasis on the human factors approach to health and safety, there is a need to actually identify those organisational characteristics that influence safety-related behaviour. These include ... 

Organisational characteristics which influence safety-related behaviour... 

Investigators routinely attend to and consider six key characteristics of organisational safety when analysing risk. Taken together, these attributes represent the qualities of sociotechnical practice that investigators believe are essential to accomplishing safety. These six organisational characteristics are ... 

Comprehensive details of alloy properties and characteristics are provided in the publications of the major aluminium companies and independent organisations. ... 

The final element which regulations address is quality. Safety and fitness for purpose, as discussed above, are two of the characteristics that you would associate with a quality product. However, these characteristics alone would not describe a quality product. For any product or service to be considered quality you would also expect it to be reliable and consistent. Additionally in the context of medical products, quality means a requirement to demonstrate conformance to agreed specifications or applicable standards for content, purity and stability. Many organisations, from manufacturers to service providers, voluntarily apply quality assurance systems in order to more effectively meet their customers needs on a consistent basis. However,... 

Growth characteristics of cells exposed to water stress mimic some of the structural responses of organised plant tissues. A frequently observed response of plants exposed to water stress is a reduction in cell size (Cutler, Rains Loomis, 1977). This cellular phenomenon was observed in tomato cells stressed with PEG (Handa et al., 1983). Concomitantly with a decrease in cell size with increasing osmotic stress was a reduction in fresh weight. In contrast the dry weight was not affected. 

The formation of host-guest inclusion compounds in crystals (or in highly ordered membranes or other biological structures) is a phenomenon more organised than simple co-crystallisation of a pair of substances. The special characteristic of inclusion crystallisation is a constant identity of one member in a series of pairs, this member thereby being identified as host, and a constancy of structure type (but not necessarily dimensions) for the host. The higher molecular organisation involved in inclusion... 

A further characteristic feature of the evolutionary psychology argument is to point to the relatively short period, in geological and evolutionary terms, over which Homo sapiens - and, in particular, modern society - has appeared. Forms of behaviour or social organisation which evolved adaptively over many generations in human hunter-gatherer society may or may not be adaptive in modern industrial society, but have, it is claimed, become to a degree fixed by humanity s evolutionary experience in the palaeolithic EEA. Hence, they are now relatively unmodifiable, even if dysfunctional. 

In addition, the authors suggest that all such systems must have a semi-permeable active boundary (membrane), an energy transduction apparatus and (at least) two types of functionally interdependent macromolecular components (catalysts and records). Thus, the phenomenon of life requires not only individual self-replication and self-sustaining systems, but it also requires of such individual systems the ability to develop a characteristic, evolutionary dynamic and a historical collectivist organisation. 

As already mentioned, the HGT principle has been known for many years however, until about 15 years ago, it was regarded as only a weak force in the evolutionary events involved in the development of primeval cells, whose organisation must have been very simple. They probably had a loose structure which could easily be modified by HGT processes. An important characteristic of Woese s model is the nature of the evolutionary process Woese assumes that cell design could be achieved only by the overall performance of HGT. It was the community as a whole,... 

We emphasise that the next chapters refer only to the surface of Earth to which light and the atmosphere have access. This is a common restriction in the discussion of evolution but we shall have to examine also the geological and biochemical zones in (and beneath) the deep sea (in Chapter 11), where it appears that evolution could be taking a somewhat different and as yet less advanced route but based on the same principles. We emphasise that each chapter adds new uses of elements, of energy, of space, and of organisation with species variation as new chemotypes evolved. The thermodynamic characteristics of all cells are given in Table 4.11. 

Precision is defined as the closeness of agreement between independent test results obtained under prescribed conditions.19 In a standard method the precision characteristics are obtained from a properly organised collaborative trial, i.e. a trial conforming to the requirements of an International Standard (the AOAC/ISO/IUPAC Harmonised Protocol or the ISO 5725 Standard). Because of the importance of collaborative trials, and the resource that is now being devoted to the assessment of precision characteristics of analytical methods before their acceptance, they are described in detail below. 

The small subunit is composed of two domains. The N-terminal domain shows the characteristic architecture of flavodoxin with the phosphate moiety of the flavin cofactor occupying the binding pocket of the proximal [4Fe-4S] cluster. This N-terminal domain, including the proximal cluster, is found in all [NiFe] hydrogenases and is consequently an essential feature, both structural and functional, of these enzymes. By contrast, the C-terminal domain that binds the other [FeS] clusters is less organised and more variable in [FeS] cluster content and amino acid sequence. 

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