Public domain definition

Sources of incident data include a variety of public-domain databases, technical literature, and news accounts (Appendix E). Sources are categorized in Appendix E as reviewed only if incident data did not meet the CSB definition of reactive chemical incident (Section 1.3). 

The IBM product PVMe takes advantage of the IBM SP high performance switch, and can as such be expected to perform somewhat better than the public domain version. Indeed, not until around 28 to 32 processors can a definite decrease in performance be detected. For the 32-processor calculation the speed-up factor was 28.44, which, given our initial aim, we find satisfactory. 

At this point, it is important to clarify a few terms that are often used in the context of this chapter. Flavour is usually divided into the subsets taste and smell, which are perceived in the mouth and the nose, respectively [3], The terms aroma and odour are not well defined and often used as synonyms. Qdour is best reserved for the smell of food before it is put into the mouth (nasal perception) and aroma for the retronasal smell of food in the mouth. In this paper, we mainly use the terms aroma and taste , as well as flavour comprising sensory notes imparted by both volatile and nonvolatile compounds (odorants and tastants). In the public domain, however, taste is often used as a synonym for flavour . Proper definitions of these terms are ... 

The medical errors work group of the QuIC, with AHRQ s lead, issued a contract to develop and deploy a valid and reliable instrument that would be available in the public domain and could be used by all components of the federal government, as well as by healthcare institutions and researchers. In order to carry out the necessary development, a contract was awarded to Westat, a private research organisation. A definition of safety culture was adopted for instrument development ... 

For the purposes of this chapter we extracted from PHID a specific sample. First, we disregarded all the projects that had not yet reached the clinical trials. Firms may differ in their definition of an in-house projects, and they may have different attitudes about releasing news about their internal R D activities. By contrasts, when they enter the clinical trials, the information about projects is registered and becomes public domain. This also entails a fairly standard definition of what constitutes a drug R D project. 

It may be argued whethere these examples, which have usually employed X-ray diffraction analysis of previously UV irradiated crystals, fall within the domain of the X-ray photodiffraction methods or solid state photochemistry, and whether the term X-ray photodiffraction should be reserved only for time-dependent studies. Although that in the original publications many of these examples have not been labeled as such, because they involve application of XRD methods to study photochemical reactions, we believe that they should he considered as part of the X-ray photodiffraction method in its broadest definition. 

Other simple codes exist such as the phase flip code, which protects information against phase flip (see below for the definition of the phase flip) and can be simply derived from the bit flip code. Merging these two codes, Peter Shor proposed a code which protects one qubit of information against the action of arbitrary single qubit errors (bit and phase flips) this code involves nine physical qubits and shows the same schematic structure as the previous example. Its publication renewed the interest of physicists for the domain and gave hope that quantum errors are correctable. 

But when it comes to the domain of public or the laypersons , the way they perceive risk may not necessarily bounded by any of the above definitions. That is when one needs to consider the concept of risk perception. 

In a recent publication (G. Gigerenzer), too, the misunderstandings and misdirections in risk estimation are vividly illustrated as risk incompetence , which can be manifested even by high-ranking experts, if the risk is represented other than with relative frequencies in the Time Domain. Against this background, the risk definition provided in ISO 13849-1 can be seriously questioned... 

The time domain that we consider is the set R>o of non-negative reals. The following definitions are based on definitions we used in previous publications [3,4]. We denote by E the finite set of actions, partitioned into two disjoint sets Ei and Eo of input and output actions, respectively. A time sequence is a finite or infinite non-decreasing sequence of non-negative reals. A timed trace cr is a finite alternating sequence of actions and time delays of the form t -a - tk-ak, where for aU i G [l,fc], Oi E and is a time sequence. 

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