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Agree upon and standardize vehicle prestart checks. Identify high-risk tasks, conduct analyses, write procedures, and do critical task observations. 

Management and supervisors are practiced at observing the job site, and perhaps even to an informal level conducting task observations. Generally, however, they do not conduct formal task observation. To conduct a formal task observation program is not too far from what they are aheady practiced in. 

Step 1. Develop a standard observation procedure. Identify who should do formal observations. The author generally makes task observation a two-phase process. Both a quaUfied trainer (if available) and the front-line supervisor conduct the observation. (Not at the same time. Their notes and/ or work sheet are compared later.)... 

Identify when task(s) are to be observed. Task observation should be required, and it should be part of the supervisor s and trainer s evaluation. Tasks should be observed on a regular basis. (A schedule should be followed, and it should be flexible but firm.) In some cases several tasks can be observed at the same time. Those conducting the observation (the frontline supervisor and the trainer) should coordinate their activities to coincide with each other, so the results can be compared at nearly the same time. 

Step 3. Train the observers. Those conducting the observation should be given training in how to conduct task observation. They must learn to utilize the standard observation procedure and the work sheet, as well as generally how to conduct observations. 

Step 4. Conduct the task observation. Task observation should be conducted on the employee s regular shift. If possible the employee should not be alerted to the fact that he or she is being observed. 

It is a good practice to try and predict what level of information is expected to be extracted from the data before conducting sessions relying on observation. For instance, problems posed by movement and interaction among individuals, and the inability of a video system to capture extremely detailed events, must all be considered in advance. If certain aspects of the task are videotaped, the recording process itself should be as unobtrusive as possible. The minimum requirement is that it does not get in the way. Also, some people may react negatively to being observed and recorded. For this reason, the workers should be briefed about the objectives of the observational study in advance. 

The original observation of long-term depletions of DA in the rhesus monkey was made during a study of the development of tolerance to the effects of daily injections of METH (Fischman and Schuster 1977). In this study, it was found that behavioral tolerance to METH on a differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) task persisted long after the repeated METH regimen. In a similar study conducted later, monkeys treated with repeated METH showed reduced sensitivity to apomorphine and increased... 

For instance, cardiac expression of TASK and TREK (both in the myocardium and conductive tissue) is compatible with bradycardia and the negative inotropic effect observed with volatile anesthetics (Terrenoire et al., 2001). 

The reviewer confronted with the task of providing a comprehensive treatment of the conductivity of organic solids and covering both theoretical and experimental aspects faces an almost impossible situation. The body of experimental information is enormous and yet there is no unified theoretical approach which can adequately interpret all observations and measurements. Therefore, it is imperative in such a situation that the writer state his terms of reference and restrict his treatment to cover selected topics. The requirement to... 

New very promising possibilities have opened by recently observed quantum effects in nanogranular metals described partly in Section 6. But much more detailed knowledge is needed for their use, so studies on these effects should be continued. Also, some problems known to be unsolved for a long time, such as the temperature dependence of electrical conductivity and a reason for the Hall effect, are also looking for their solution. The affect of shape distribution on magnetic, electrical, optical and relaxation processes is not clear today in detail the task appears to be too sophisticated but it should be solved at least by computer simulation. 

However, the removal of carbon monoxide by water-gas shift to a low level still demands its selective oxidation to the minimum concentration possible. Much research and development has been conducted during the past decades to find a gold catalyst that can do this the target is usually described by the acronym PROX (preferential oxidation), but sometimes as SCO (selective catalytic oxidation). The task is somewhat simplified by the constraints that are externally imposed the preferred feed gas, often termed idealised reformate, has the composition 1.0% CO, 1.0% 02, 75.0% H2, balance nitrogen or other inert gas, and while of course variations to this composition can be made to explore the kinetics and mechanism, and the effects of the products water and carbon dioxide can be added to observe their effects, the successful catalyst must remove almost all the carbon monoxide (to <10 ppm) and less than 0.5% hydrogen. This requirement is expressed as a selectivity based on the percentage of the oxygen consumed that is taken by the carbon monoxide this should exceed 50%, under conditions where the conversion of carbon monoxide is above 99.5%.5... 

This behavior resembles the law in semiconductors where y = 1, but the decay is slower, y < 1 commonly, y 0.25. As in metals, the number of charge carriers is constant. In the factors that determine conductivity, tj = ne(x the temperature dependence comes from the mobility x. Accounting for the temperature behavior o-(T) is a very delicate task since many different processes can give rise to the observed law. The difficult problem is to obtain the appropriate model for the case in question. The various possible processes have one common feature disorder plays a leading role. 

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