Methods and systems used to measure and monitor occupational disease and injury in New Zealand

The National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee (NOHSAC) commissioned Health Outcomes International to conduct a review of methods and systems used to measure and monitor occupational disease and injury in New Zealand. This is NOHSAC’s second project designed to provide an independent evidence-based assessment of some of the measures that would deliver the greatest benefit for the prevention of occupational injury and disease in New Zealand

Technical Report: CSVM Ecosystem

The CSVM format is derived from CSV format and allows the storage of tabular like data with a limited but extensible amount of metadata. This approach could help computer scientists because all information needed to uses subsequently the data is included in the CSVM file and is particularly well suited for handling RAW data in a lot of scientific fields and to be used as a canonical format. The use of CSVM has shown that it greatly facilitates: the data management independently of using databases; the data exchange; the integration of RAW data in dataflows or calculation pipes; the search for best practices in RAW data management. The efficiency of this format is closely related to its plasticity: a generic frame is given for all kind of data and the CSVM parsers don't make any interpretation of data types. This task is done by the application layer, so it is possible to use same format and same parser codes for a lot of purposes. In this document some implementation of CSVM format for ten years and in different laboratories are presented. Some programming examples are also shown: a Python toolkit for using the format, manipulating and querying is available. A first specification of this format (CSVM-1) is now defined, as well as some derivatives such as CSVM dictionaries used for data interchange. CSVM is an Open Format and could be used as a support for Open Data and long term conservation of RAW or unpublished data.Comment: 31 pages including 2p of Anne

Technical report writing

This manual covers the fundamentals of organizing, writing, and reviewing NASA technical reports. It was written to improve the writing skills of LeRC technical authors and the overall quality of their reports

Global SPACING Constraint (Technical Report)

We propose a new global SPACING constraint that is useful in modeling events that are distributed over time, like learning units scheduled over a study program or repeated patterns in music compositions. First, we investigate theoretical properties of the constraint and identify tractable special cases. We propose efficient DC filtering algorithms for these cases. Then, we experimentally evaluate performance of the proposed algorithms on a music composition problem and demonstrate that our filtering algorithms outperform the state-of-the-art approach for solving this problem

Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), executive summary

The aim of the Defra-funded project NANR209 ‘Human response to vibration in residential environments’ was to develop exposure-response relationships for vibration experienced in residential environments from sources outside of the residents’ control. The project was performed at the University of Salford between January 2008 and March 2011. The final report was published on the Defra website on 6th September 2012. The NANR209 Final Report consists of the following documents: • Executive summary • Final project report • Technical report 1: Measurement of vibration exposure • Technical report 2: Measurement of response • Technical report 3: Calculation of vibration exposure • Technical report 4: Measurement and calculation of noise exposure • Technical report 5: Analysis of the social survey findings • Technical report 6: Determination of exposure-response relationships This document is the Executive summary