Flight safety assessment based on a modified human error risk quantification approach.

In risk and safety assessments of aviation systems, engineers generally pay more attention to the risks of hardware or software failure and focus less on the risks caused by human errors. In this paper, a (FRAHE) method is proposed for identifying this critical error type and determining the risk severity of human errors. This method accounts for the human error probability as well as the impacts of human errors on the system.

Analgesic Effect Comparison Between Nalbuphine and Sufentanil for Patient-Controlled Intravenous Analgesia After Cesarean Section.

: Efficient maternal pain relief after cesarean delivery remains challenging, but it is important to improve outcomes for the mother and the newborn during the puerperium. We compared the analgesic effect of nalbuphine (a κ receptor agonist/μ receptor antagonistic) with that of sufentanil (a -receptor agonist) in patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) after cesarean section. : We enrolled 84 patients scheduled for elective cesarean sections with spinal anesthesia and randomized them into either nalbuphine or sufentanil groups (42 patients each).

Flight safety assessment based on an integrated human reliability quantification approach.

Human error is an important risk factor for flight safety. Although the human error assessment and reduction technique (HEART) is an available tool for human reliability derivation, it has not been applied in flight safety assessment. The traditional HEART suffers from imprecise calculation of the assessed proportion of affect (APOA) because it heavily depends on a single expert's judgment.

Spin-orbit corrected potential energy surface features for the I ((2)P(3/2)) + H2O → HI + OH forward and reverse reactions.

Using the CCSD(T) method with relativistic correlation consistent basis sets up to cc-pVQZ-PP, the entrance complex, transition state, and exit complex for the endothermic reaction I + H2O → HI + OH have been studied. The vibrational frequencies and the zero-point vibrational energies of the five stationary points for the title reaction are reported and compared with the limited available experimental results. Opposite to the valence isoelectronic F + H2O system, but similar to the Cl + H2O and Br + H2O reactions, the I + H2O reaction is endothermic, in this case by 46 kcal mol(-1).

Communication: Some critical features of the potential energy surface for the Cl + H2O → HCl + OH forward and reverse reactions.

The forward and reverse reactions Cl + H2O → HCl + OH are very important in atmospheric chemistry. The entrance complex, transition state, and exit complex for the endothermic reaction Cl + H2O → HCl + OH have been studied using the CCSD(T) method with the correlation consistent basis sets through cc-pVQZ. The vibrational frequencies and the zero-point vibrational energies of the five stationary points for the reaction are reported and compared to the limited available experimental results.

The phase transition, and elastic and thermodynamic properties of CaS derived from first-principles calculations.

First-principles calculations of the crystal structures, phase transition, and elastic properties of B1-B2 phase calcium sulfide (CaS) have been carried out with the plane-wave pseudopotential density functional theory method. The calculated values (for crystal structures and the phase transition) are in very good agreement with experimental data as well as with some of the existing model calculations. The dependence of the elastic constants c(ij), the aggregate elastic modulus, the deviation from the Cauchy relation, and the elastic anisotropy on pressure have been investigated.