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A failure modes and effects analysis delineates components, their interaction.s ith each other, and the effects of their failures on their system. A key element of fault tree analysis is the identification of related fault events that can contribute to the top event. For a quantitative evaluation, the failure modes must be clearly defined and related to a numerical database. Component failure modes should be realistically and consistently postulated within the context of system operational requirements and environmental factors. 

Events in a fault tree are not restricted to hardware failures. They can also include software, human, and environmental factors. 

What are some examples of these attractants (Figure 1) For mate finding, the insect-produced pheromones are the primary examples. However, environmental factors may also play an important role in the effectiveness of attractants. In the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis. alpha-pinene released from an attacked tree is necessary along with the endogenously produced frontalin in order to attract males for mating (14). 

In contrast to tree and fungal laccase, whose molecular parameters and mechanisms of action have been thoroughly investigated (8), few such studies have been reported for ascorbate oxidase. This is mainly because of the relatively diflScult isolation and purification procedure of ascorbate oxidase in comparison with laccase. Furthermore, this enzyme appears to be more sensitive to environmental factors such as ionic strength of the buffer medium, its pH, or the presence of extraneous metal ions. Consequently, many samples isolated over a long period were found to be homogeneous from the standpoint of the protein biochemist but appeared inhomogeneous with respect to the catalytically active copper sites (9). 

A fault tree is a model that graphically and logically represents the various combinations of possible events, both fault and normal, occurring in a system that lead to the top event. A fault event is an abnormal system state. A normal event is an event that is expected to occur. The term event denotes a dynamic change of state that occurs in a system element. System elements include hardware, software, human, and environmental factors. Details about the construction of fault trees can be found in Henley et al. (1992). 

The next step to validate the reliability FT is to test the independence of events within the tree. This is not simply ensuring that repeated events are not present (which have already been resolved by applying Boolean algebra), but to consider if there are common causes that can cause otherwise independent components to fail simultaneously (such as use of common components of the same batch, common environmental factors or common interfaces like power sources). Of particular importance is to ensure that the events on either side of an AND gate are truly independent, as common causes (like repeated events) can result in a lower probability estimate than is true by several... 

Stress is an additional factor included in aU models except for SPAR-H. Yet, the definition of this factor is not homogeneous across the models. In particular, the EPRI HRA Calculator defines stress as the culmination effect of other performance shaping factors, such as environmental factors. Interestingly, the Surry dependence model relates stress as whether the conditions of the red paths or the orange paths of the reactor safety function trees are met. 

Software Fault Tree ( Soft Trees ) The soft tree technique is used to determine what software event, failure, or combination of each will result in a real or hypothetically loss event (a top event). This top-down analytical approach, which assumes a problem and then evaluates affecting conditions backward to determine causal factors, also takes into consideration any influencing environmental factors. It is concerned primarily with the analysis of any hardware-software interfaces that deal directly with the operation of mechanical components. 

FTA is a tool employed in the analysis of complex systems to estimate the likelihood of a hazardous event. It has been applied, for example, in safety evaluations of nuclear power plants, space missions, air, rail, highway, marine and pipeline transport, liquefied natur gas, chemical manufacturing, and other hazardous material facilities. With this method, all material, personnel, and environmental factors of a complex system can be systematically presented. A well-constructed fault tree enables us to discover failure combinations that would not normally be discovered and provides for both qualitative and quantitative evaluation. 

Breeding for yield is a complex task, because the final measure is the dry seed, the raw cacao after complex postharvest treatment. Before harvesting ripe pods, there are many steps which depend on the interaction of the plant with environmental factors. This field is still under intensive evaluation, especially under management aspects for the decision if a cacao plantation shall be run under shade trees or in direct stm. Directly combined with these decisions is the shorter lifetime of plantations in direct sun, the high investment costs for high fertilizer input, and the potential need for irrigation [5, 17]. 

Several economical and environmental factors encourage the planting of trees, such as increasing productivity or reducing erosion. The social benefits gained from... 

Elsewhere, there is little, if any, evidence of a correlation between air pollution and tree health or growth. Where such studies have been undertaken, the correlations generally indicate that air pollution is less important than other environmental factors, particularly those related to stand characteristics and soil conditions (Brooks 1989,Hauhs 1989, Neumann 1989). 

Common cause failures are described in Section 2.2.3.4 as simultaneous failures of multiple components due to some underlying common cause, such as design errors or environmental factors. Common cause events can be placed directly on fault trees for analysis. Engineering judgment is used to determine which common cause events are important enough to include. It is not possible to include all conceivable combinations of common cause events due to the number of components involved. For example, the number of combinations of motor-operated valves in a plant that could fail from a common cause is almost endless. Standard practice is to consider common cause combinations across multiple trains of single systems, but with a few exceptions not across multiple systems. 

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