Vergleichende Grammatik der nördlichen Türksprachen

von W. Radlof

Analysis of accidents with tower cranes on construction sites and recommendations for their prevention

Abstract Analyzing and investigating accidents with tower cranes on construction sites is a particularly important preventative measure to ensure their accident-free work and reduce the number of occupational accidents at the construction site. The urgency of this problem is increasing very much in view of the relatively long operational life of the tower cranes on construction sites. This article presents various types of results from researches related to the analysis of accidents with tower cranes on construction sites worldwide. In addition, an approach for analysis of the absolute probability of a major tower crane accident caused by failures of mechanical components is considered, as well as analysis of possible sequences of failures of mechanical components leading to a tower crane accident, which are analyzed based on Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). An adequate statistical approach is proposed to establish the most significant organizational and technical causes, mainly related to the organization of the construction site and the activities for maintenance of the machine park, which cause accidents with tower cranes. An approach is proposed to calculate the conditional probability (weighting factor) of a specific organizational and technical cause to lead to a serious accident with the tower crane using Bayesian formulas, as well as an approach to determine the total assessment for each organizational and technical cause regarding its potential for causing accidents. Finally, proposals and recommendations are made related to the identification of key technical and organizational measures, the adequate and timely implementation of which could lead to a reduction in the number of occupational accidents with tower cranes on construction sites.</jats:p

Observations sur les Kirghis / par M. Radloff

Aus: Journal asiatique ; 9. 186

Das türkische Sprachmaterial des Codex Comanicus : Manuscript der Bibliothek der Marcus-Kirche in Venedig ; nach der Ausgabe des Grafen Kuun (Budapest 1880)

von W. Radlof

Fighting a rhinoceros with a straight pin

High resolution image of a political cartoon from the Russian weekly satirical journal The New Satyricon (Новый Сатирикон - Novyi Satirikon), volume 17, page 6, 21 April 1916. Available in digitally enhanced Russian and English versions on the Russia’s Great War and Revolution website (See URL in Other sources above).Caption: Американец: -- Женщины и дети! Теперь вы можете свободно ехать по морю! Это чудовище уже не может выстрелить! (Translation: American: “Women and children! Now you can sail the seas unmolested! This monster can no longer shoot!”) NOTE: The same title heads a humorous sketch by Arkadii Averchenko (editor of The New Satirikon), published in his 1915 anthology entitled Wolf pits (Вольчи ямы).Ermal Garinger Acacemic Resource Center, University of Kansas Libraries' Center for Digital Scholarship and Slavic and Eurasian Studies department, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studie