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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 NOHSACâs 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Data and long term conservation of RAW or unpublished data.Comment: 31 pages including 2p of Anne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 âHuman response to vibration in residential environmentsâ was to develop exposure-response relationships for vibration experienced in residential environments from sources outside of the residentsâ 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:
âą Executive summary
âą Final project report
âą Technical report 1: Measurement of vibration exposure
âą Technical report 2: Measurement of response
âą Technical report 3: Calculation of vibration exposure
âą Technical report 4: Measurement and calculation of noise exposure
âą Technical report 5: Analysis of the social survey findings
âą Technical report 6: Determination of exposure-response relationships
This document is the Executive summary
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