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Evaluation and calibration. A piece of tube was rotated around its own axis during four channel wall thickness mea.surements (Figure 7). The four traces are not identical A rotation apart as should be expected. The calibrations of the four equipment s from the manufacture was not the same. Especially one of the traces has less dynamic than the other three. Based on these observations a dynamic calibration system was suggested using a tube, which could be rotated around its own axis in the measuring system. The values should be verified using traditional mechanical measurement around the tube circumference. The prototype system was permanently installed in the workshop at the production hall. Experimental work was more difficult under such circumstances so our participation in the development work stopped. 

The authors would like to thank Dr Mark Taylor, Dr Raquel Duarte-Davidson and the other participants who contributed to our understanding during a workshop on the ecological effects of sex hormone disrupters held at the Institute in January 1998. We also acknowledge the financial support provided by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions for the work at lEH on endocrine disruption. However, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of any government department or agency. 

The best fit, as measured by statistics, was achieved by one participant in the International Workshop on Kinetic Model Development (1989), who completely ignored all kinetic formalities and fitted the data by a third order spline function. While the data fit well, his model didn t predict temperature runaway at all. Many other formal models made qualitatively correct runaway predictions, some even very close when compared to the simulation using the true kinetics. 

Solutions submitted by workshop participants exhibited more variation in reactor performance than had been expected. 

In the original announcement of the workshop the participants were told that everything was to be taken from methanol synthesis except the kinetics. Some may have interpreted this to mean that the known thermodynamic equilibrium information of the methanol synthesis is not valid when taken together with the kinetics. This was not intended, but... 

The confluence of sharply rising Operations and Maintenance (O M) costs. NRC requested Individual Plant Examinations (IPEs) and increased personal computer capabilities gave rise to the R R Workstation. Its uses and maintains-current PSA models and databases for individual plants to perform O M planning and scheduling, and uses the PSA in IPE models to identify plant design, procedure and operational vulnerabilities. The Risk and Reliability Workstation Alliance was organized by EPRI to support the R R Workshop in order to achieve O M cost reduction, plant productivity and safety enhancement through risk-based, user-friendly, windowed software louls (Table 3.6 8). The Alliance, initiated in 1992, includes 25 U.S. utilities and four international partners from Spain, France, Korea, and Mexico. SAIC is the prime contractor for the R R Workstation, with participation of five other PSA vendors. 

I am a physicist who switched to nuclear engineering for my Ph D. My introduction to PSA was as an original participant in the Reactor Safety Study in 1972. Material for this book was first gathered in 1974 for a workshop on what to expect in WASH-1400 (the results of the Reactor Safety Study). Materials were gathered over the years for EPRI, Savannah River Laboratory, and other workshops. A culmination was in 1988 with "Probabilistic Risk Assessment in the Nuclear Power Industry" with Robert Hall as coauthor. This book updates these materials and adds material on PSA in the chemical process industry. I prepared the material for printing using a word processor... 

We offer a special note of gratitude to the participants of a W.H. Freeman workshop on teaching general chemistry. Their insights provided much food for thought ... 

Initially there were different workshops for mentors and mentees, but they were soon asked to attend joint ones, although certain aspects were still discussed separately. Running joint workshops proved much more successful and popular with participants, because they felt that they better understood how the scheme actually worked. Furthermore, once mentors and mentees started to attend the same workshops, it was possible to commence with the first step of matching during these sessions. This involved providing mentees with a pen picture of each mentor as well as a preferences form, and asking them, at the end of the workshop, to indicate both their top three favourites and those mentors they would not perceive as suitable at all. 

The seven mentors attended a 2-day intensive workshop that looked at the nature of mentoring, the skills required, and how to manage the relationship. The mentees had a 1-day workshop, with the mentors joining them towards the end of the day. The second day of the mentors workshop involved a variety of role-plays designed by the participants themselves to reflect the kind of issues they had already encountered between the cultures. 

In addition to the recently published literature, much of the material for this paper was derived from technical presentations and discussions at the following workshops in which I had the opportunity to participate ... 

Technology (Poland) for their participation and assistance in identifying speakers from the Ukraine and Russia. We also thank all other registrants for coming and making the workshop and conference a success. 

The latter session included government perspectives from the EPA OPPTS, the EPA Office of Research and Development, the EPA Office of Children s Health Protection, the OECD, the EMEA and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), in addition to industry perspectives reflecting both the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.19 The NIEHS/NIOSH workshop was limited to 23 invited participants. A limited number of background scientific presentations were given, and the emphasis was on break-out group sessions in which a series of predetermined questions were raised and key points were captured by rapporteurs.17... 

As emphasized above, two important workshops held in 2001 identified a number of data gaps and research needs to advance the state-of-the-science for assessing the potential for dit.161719 30 Moreover, participants in a 2003 roundtable discussion emphasized that a number of important research efforts are currently underway in the areas of DIT, examining immune system responses following developmental exposures to known immunotoxicants.38... 

We thank the many stakeholders who participated in the various workshops and provided valuable guidance in the design of the continental-scale soil geochemical survey. We also thank all the people who have, to date, participated in sampling in all three countries. 

We thank John Horton, Jim Kilburn, Robert Garrett, Rodney Klassen, Jean Morrison, and Harley King for field assistance during sampling along the transects. We thank the many people who participated in the USGS workshops where the sample design protocols and analytical framework for the transects were developed. We also thank the many landowners who provided access to sites. 

CPE IX, held in September 1993 in Alexandria, Cairo/Luxor, Egypt, was a joint conference with EPA/U.S. AID S Fourth International Symposium on Industry in the Developing World. This included a workshop on industrial pollution prevention and clean technologies, and other cooperation and institutional issues. Participants were comprised of a multi-disciplined technical group from 27 countries. 

Now, what can EPA or anyone else do about this elusive but real problem A start has already been made via a data quality workshop which was initiated by the CMA (Chemical Manufacturers Association) and co-sponsored by EPA, NBS (National Bureau of Standards) and NAS (National Academy of Sciences). This resulted in a group of about 40 experienced participants from government, industry and academia reviewing criteria for data quality in four areas of information relating to properties, health and environmental effects. From this beginning, we eventually hope to see the contents of data-bases or data files identified as to the level of reliability of extracted information. The user will then at least have the ability to judge the value of the information he received. 

The author thanks D. Blaschke, T. Kunihiro and M.F.M. Lutz for the discussions. He acknowledges the hospitality and support of GSI Darmstadt. The work has been supported in part by DFG (project 436 Rus 113/558/0-2), and by RFBR grant NNIO-03-02-04008. The author also acknowledges NATO Scientific Program for the support of his participation in Advanced Research Workshop in Erevan, Sept. 2003. 

The following gave some assistance to one or more of the aspects of the project, including field testing, reviewing, workshop participation, experiment development, serving on the National Visiting Committee, etc. ... 

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