Basic safety manual of the state of Alabama, adopted by the Board of Appeals, June 15, 1939.

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Protecção radiológica em Portugal: análise da nova directiva internacional (oportunidades e ameaças)

A Comissão Europeia irá lançar, num futuro próximo, uma nova directiva relativa à protecção radiológica - Basic Safety Standards – a qual irá substituir, num único documento, os actualmente existentes. Durante as últimas três décadas, em Portugal, a protecção radiológica contra radiações ionizantes tem sido regulada segundo cinco directivas, publicadas entre 1989 e 2003. Têm sido relatados vários incidentes ocorridos em ambiente clínico, nomeadamente naqueles que operam com radiação ionizante, pois na maioria dos casos, as regras, boas práticas e infra-estruturas não estão adequadas para esta finalidade. As questões ligadas com esta temática estão agora em análise e sob discussão pública. É, contudo, importante entender os desafios e requisitos da nova directiva para melhorar e assegurar a excelência dos resultados nas organizações de cuidados de saúde. Este novo documento reúne as abordagens da International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) e World Health Organization (WHO) e também de outros especialistas na matéria. O propósito da nova directiva aplicada a qualquer exposição previamente planeada baseia-se no princípio ALARA (optimização das práticas, justificação da exposição e limitação da dose). O objectivo deste estudo é, na opinião das partes interessadas, identificar as oportunidades que podem resultar da implementação da nova directiva.

In vitro evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of a range of probiotics against pathogens: Evidence for the effects of organic acids

The aim of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial properties of fifteen selected strains belonging to the Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Lactococcus, Streptococcus and Bacillus genera against Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. In vitro antibacterial activity was initially investigated by an agar spot method. Results from the agar spot test showed that most of the selected strains were able to produce active compounds on solid media with antagonistic properties against Salmonella Typhimurium, Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile. These results were also confirmed when cell-free culture supernatants (CFCS) from the putative probiotics were used in an agar well diffusion assay. Neutralization of the culture supernatants with alkali reduced the antagonistic effects. These experiments are able to confirm the capacity of potential probiotics to inhibit selected pathogens. One of the main inhibitory mechanisms may result from the production of organic acids from glucose fermentation and consequent lowering of culture pH. This observation was confirmed when the profile of organic acids was analysed demonstrating that lactic and acetic acid were the principal end products of probiotic metabolism. Furthermore, the assessment of the haemolytic activity and the susceptibility of the strains to the most commonly used antimicrobials, considered as basic safety aspects, were also studied. The observed antimicrobial activity was mainly genus-specific, additionally significant differences could be observed among species.

Type Systems for Distributed Programs: Components and Sessions

Modern software systems, in particular distributed ones, are everywhere around us and are at the basis of our everyday activities. Hence, guaranteeing their cor- rectness, consistency and safety is of paramount importance. Their complexity makes the verification of such properties a very challenging task. It is natural to expect that these systems are reliable and above all usable. i) In order to be reliable, compositional models of software systems need to account for consistent dynamic reconfiguration, i.e., changing at runtime the communication patterns of a program. ii) In order to be useful, compositional models of software systems need to account for interaction, which can be seen as communication patterns among components which collaborate together to achieve a common task. The aim of the Ph.D. was to develop powerful techniques based on formal methods for the verification of correctness, consistency and safety properties related to dynamic reconfiguration and communication in complex distributed systems. In particular, static analysis techniques based on types and type systems appeared to be an adequate methodology, considering their success in guaranteeing not only basic safety properties, but also more sophisticated ones like, deadlock or livelock freedom in a concurrent setting. The main contributions of this dissertation are twofold. i) On the components side: we design types and a type system for a concurrent object-oriented calculus to statically ensure consistency of dynamic reconfigurations related to modifications of communication patterns in a program during execution time. ii) On the communication side: we study advanced safety properties related to communication in complex distributed systems like deadlock-freedom, livelock- freedom and progress. Most importantly, we exploit an encoding of types and terms of a typical distributed language, session π-calculus, into the standard typed π- calculus, in order to understand their expressive power.

Usability of clay mixed red mud in Hungarian building material production industry

The naturally occurring radionuclide (²²⁶Ra,²³²Th and⁴⁰K) content of building Materials (NORM) contributes to the total radiation dose experienced by humans. In this survey 27 clay and 68 red mud samples were surveyed with gamma spectrometry and screened according to European Basic Safety Standards (BSS) I-index. It was found that average I-index of clays was 0.6 (0.4–0.8) less than the I-index of 1, which makes them suitable for building material production. The average I-index of red mud 2.3 (1.3–3.0). The maximal mixing ratio of red mud was calculated, varied between 12 and 39 %, with 23 % average.

Chemical products : basic guide on labelling and safety data sheets

Hazardous chemical products have to comply with, amongst others, the provisions of a correct classification of danger, labelling and compilation of the safety data sheets. The aim is to protect people's health and the environment from exposure to hazardous chemicals- especially the health and safety of direct users, professionals or not, and the general public, via environmental exposure. This publication is intended to contribute to the knowledge of the objectives and basic aspects of these legal provisions, and thereby increase their degree of compliance in Andalusia and other european regions. This Guide is directed toward those people who, in the development of their professional activities, are in one way or another in contact with dangerous chemical products.

Chemical products : basic guide on labelling and safety data sheets

Hazardous chemical products have to comply with, amongst others, the provisions of a correct classification of danger, labelling and compilation of the safety data sheets. The aim is to protect people's health and the environment from exposure to hazardous chemicals- especially the health and safety of direct users, professionals or not, and the general public, via environmental exposure. This publication is intended to contribute to the knowledge of the objectives and basic aspects of these legal provisions, and thereby increase their degree of compliance in Andalusia and other european regions. This Guide is directed toward those people who, in the development of their professional activities, are in one way or another in contact with dangerous chemical products.

Safety and environmental design considerations in the use of commercial electronic variable-message signage. Final report.

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Crash testing of experimental safety vehicles. Volume II - Renault Basic Research Vehicle. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Hand receipt covering contents of components of end item (COEI), basic issue items (BII), and additional authorization list (AAL) for automatic message switching central AN/TYC-39(V)1 (NSN 5805-01-123-1851), AN/TYC-39(V)5 (NSN 5805-01-152-3068).

"20 April 1984."

Hand receipt covering contents of components of end item (COEI), basic issue items (BII), and additional authorization list (AAL) for message entry device, variable format AN/GSC-21 (VFMED) (NSN 7010-01-017-6967).

"3 June 1983."

Adaptive message rate control of infrastructured DSRC vehicle networks for coexisting road safety and non-safety applications

Intelligent transport system (ITS) has large potentials on road safety applications as well as nonsafety applications. One of the big challenges for ITS is on the reliable and cost-effective vehicle communications due to the large quantity of vehicles, high mobility, and bursty traffic from the safety and non-safety applications. In this paper, we investigate the use of dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) for coexisting safety and non-safety applications over infrastructured vehicle networks. The main objective of this work is to improve the scalability of communications for vehicles networks, ensure QoS for safety applications, and leave as much as possible bandwidth for non-safety applications. A two-level adaptive control scheme is proposed to find appropriate message rate and control channel interval for safety applications. Simulation results demonstrated that this adaptive method outperforms the fixed control method under varying number of vehicles. © 2012 Wenyang Guan et al.