RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Data about derailments exist both in European and national databases, either pubhc or confidential. These belong to a variety of organizations and are presented in a number of formats differing in stiucture, information under which criteria is reported, definition of causes of accidents, etc. The main sources of information for this research included  

2) European derailment database created within the previous study by Det Norske Veritas [DNV 11]  

4) Great Britain s Safety Management Information System (GB SMIS) administered by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB)  

5) Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) investigation reports  

The D-RAIL database [DRA 12a] enabled the identification of key causes, which produce most damage and losses, as well as which causes were the most common. Some data was collected on derailments with mnltiple causes, but not enough for meaningful analysis. 

Cores are chemical moieties that can have more than one diversification point, provide shape to the molecule, and can be regarded as the molecular skeleton/ scaffold 

Daughters have inherently only one point of attachment. They can be thought of as substituents. 

Structural equation modelling was used to test the model presented in Fig. 15.2. This allows the capture of measurement error associated with the variables and the segregation of the direct and indirect effects, addressing specifically the objectives of this study (Anderson and Gerbing 1988). The software packages SPSS 12 and AMOS 5 were used (Byme 2001) for the data analysis. AMOS is a similar but more user-friendly package than the more frequently used LISREL. 

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Figure 2.1. Schematic presentation of the research methodology combining spectroscopic investigations, reactivity studies, and DFT molecular modeling adopted in this work.

Based on the observed problems in the measurement of safety in the chemical process industry, as outlined in the previous Chapter, additional research into this area is needed to provide companies with better indicators of possible accidents. In this Chapter the research methodology used to gain a more complete understanding of this measurement problem , is presented. This Chapter starts by discussing the focus, type and methodology of the research process. Then the research strategy and methods will be discussed to present the design structure of the complete research. 

In this Chapter emphasis will be put on the planning process while the execution process will be addressed later. In the next sub-Sections the focus of the research, the type of research, the research methodology, the research strategies and methods used will be presented. 

Medication errors have been defined in many ways, depending on research methodologies, incident reporting systems, risk management, or total quality improvement systems. USP uses the broad definition of medication error from the NCC MERP ... 

Basic understanding of research methodology, statistics and evaluation of data. 

Arani RB, Soong S-1, Weiss HL, Wood Ml et al. (2001) Phase specific analysis of herpes zoster associated pain data a new statistical approach Statistics in Medicine, 20, 2429-2439 Bedikian AY, MiUward M, Pehamberger H, Conry R et al. (2006) Bcl-2 Antisense (obUmersen sodium) plus dacarbazine in patients with advanced melanoma The ObUmersen Melanoma Study Group Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24, 4738-4745 Bland M (2004) Cluster randomised trials in the medical Uterature two bibliometric surveys BMC Medical Research Methodology, 4, 21... 

Approachable methodology is required for PoC studies. Close collaboration between the study sponsor and the research institutes providing the research methodology is mandatory. 

Physical chemistry and physics may be different fields but they have some important features in common they are abstract they both use mathematics they overlap in some content areas (such as thermodynamics and quantum mechanics). To a large extent, science and physics educators started research on basic physics concepts that also are used in physical chemistry. Consequently, physical chemistry education research owns much to the work that has been done in physics education and has much in common with it. For example, they share some of the research methodology and an interest in studying the relationship between the physical description of phenomena and its mathematics description in the learner s mind. 

Alroe, H.F. and Kristensen, E.S. 2002. Towards a systemic research methodology in agriculture Rethinking the role of values in science. Agriculture and Human Values 19 3-23. Alroe, H.F. and Kristensen, E.S. 2003. Toward a systemic ethic in search of an ethical basis for... 

Krell, R. and Zanoli, R. 2000. (eds) Research Methodologies in Organic farming On-Farm Participatory Research. REU Technical Series 63. FAO, Rome. 

Raupp, J. 1999. Biodynamic approaches in research and development. In Zanoli, R. and Krell, R. (eds) First SREN Workshop on Research Methodologies in Organic Farming. Proceedings. Frick, Switzerland. 30 September-3 October 1998. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. pp. 41-47. 

The computer has become an essential tool in biochemical research. A computer may be used for the routine jobs of word processing and data collection and analysis. In addition, if a computer is connected to the Internet, then it may be used for biochemical literature searching, accessing information about nucleic acid and protein sequences, predicting protein structure, and seeking research methodology. In this experiment, students will be introduced to all of these skills in bioinformatics. 

Kris-Etherton PM, Lefevre M, Beecher GR, Gross MD, Keen CL, Etherton TD. 2004. Bioactive compounds in nutrition and health-research methodologies for establishing biological function The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of flavonoids on atherosclerosis. Ann Rev Nutr 24 511-538. 

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