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This indispensable guide offers detailed coverage of the
regulations, requirements, and techniques for the validation of
processes and systems used in regulated international industries -
addressing all significant requirements for pharmaceutical, medical
device, and biologic companies as well as environmental
laboratories. Elucidating up-to-the-minute industry changes and
international concerns, Validation Compliance Annual 1995 examines
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Good Clinical Practices
(GCPs), Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs), and Good Automated
laboratory Practices (GALPs)... provides unabridged texts of U.S.
and European Union regulatory requirements as well as summaries of
the validation requirements of other nations... furnishes complete
guidelines and tools for system validation... supplies an in-depth
look at problems related to inadequate system validation, including
actual regulatory citations for noncompliance... explains the
rationale behind regulatory compliance policies and inspectional
practices... assesses the future of regulatory and industry
trends... and more. Containing key bibliographic citations and a
thorough glossary of validation terms, Validation Compliance Annual
1995 is an incomparable day-to-day workbook for analytical,
pharmaceutical, food, and environmental chemists; instrumentation
specialists; industrial, bio-process, chemical, and pharmaceutical
engineers; quality and reliability managers and directors;
laboratory managers and technicians; computer scientists; and
upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these
disciplines.
During the last ten years a considerable volume of inform ation has
been accumulated regarding the inelastic behaviour of materials.
The increasing number of communications published in specialised
journals and also the frequency of meetings in these fields,
indicates a considerable research effort aimed at such topics as
plasticity, creep, fatigue, visco-plasticity and the like. This
fact encouraged a group of Brazilian researchers, stimulated
enthusiastically by Professor P. Germain, to submit a proposal for
a Symposium on the "Inelastic Behaviour of Plates and Shells" to
the General Assembly of IUTAM. Brazil had recently joined IUTAM and
the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences was eager to host
an IUTAM meeting. In the selection of the subject, it was taken
into account, besides a promising number of original contributions,
the interest to be raised amongst the Brazilian researchers and
engineers, in order to maximise the participation of the host
country. The recent steps taken in this country towards the develop
ment of the aero-space industry, the construction of nuclear power
plants a.nd the off-shore exploration of petroleum have required an
intensification of research activities in several fields,
structural behaviour of plates and shells being one of the most
important. Therefore, the suggested theme would attract the
interest or a significant group of Brazilian researchers and
engineers and match the necessity for exchanging experience among
leading scientists working in those fields."
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) administers
two disability programs: Social Security Disability Insurance
(SSDI), for disabled individuals, and their dependent family
members, who have worked and contributed to the Social Security
trust funds, and Supplemental Security Income (SSSI), which is a
means-tested program based on income and financial assets for
adults aged 65 years or older and disabled adults and children.
Both programs require that claimants have a disability and meet
specific medical criteria in order to qualify for benefits. SSA
establishes the presence of a medically-determined impairment in
individuals with mental disorders other than intellectual
disability through the use of standard diagnostic criteria, which
include symptoms and signs. These impairments are established
largely on reports of signs and symptoms of impairment and
functional limitation. Psychological Testing in the Service of
Disability Determination considers the use of psychological tests
in evaluating disability claims submitted to the SSA. This report
critically reviews selected psychological tests, including symptom
validity tests, that could contribute to SSA disability
determinations. The report discusses the possible uses of such
tests and their contribution to disability determinations.
Psychological Testing in the Service of Disability Determination
discusses testing norms, qualifications for administration of
tests, administration of tests, and reporting results. The
recommendations of this report will help SSA improve the
consistency and accuracy of disability determination in certain
cases. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2
Disability Evaluation and the Use of Psychological Tests 3 Overview
of Psychological Testing 4 Self-Report Measures and Symptom
Validity Tests 5 Cognitive Tests and Performance Validity Tests 6
Economic Considerations 7 Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix
A: Public Workshop Agendas Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members Appendix C: Glossary
Advances in computing hardware and algorithms have dramatically
improved the ability to simulate complex processes computationally.
Today's simulation capabilities offer the prospect of addressing
questions that in the past could be addressed only by
resource-intensive experimentation, if at all. Assessing the
Reliability of Complex Models recognizes the ubiquity of
uncertainty in computational estimates of reality and the necessity
for its quantification. As computational science and engineering
have matured, the process of quantifying or bounding uncertainties
in a computational estimate of a physical quality of interest has
evolved into a small set of interdependent tasks: verification,
validation, and uncertainty of quantification (VVUQ). In
recognition of the increasing importance of computational
simulation and the increasing need to assess uncertainties in
computational results, the National Research Council was asked to
study the mathematical foundations of VVUQ and to recommend steps
that will ultimately lead to improved processes. Assessing the
Reliability of Complex Models discusses changes in education of
professionals and dissemination of information that should enhance
the ability of future VVUQ practitioners to improve and properly
apply VVUQ methodologies to difficult problems, enhance the ability
of VVUQ customers to understand VVUQ results and use them to make
informed decisions, and enhance the ability of all VVUQ
stakeholders to communicate with each other. This report is an
essential resource for all decision and policy makers in the field,
students, stakeholders, UQ experts, and VVUQ educators and
practitioners. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1
Introduction 2 Sources of Uncertainty and Error 3 Verification 4
Emulation, Reduced-Order Modeling, and Forward Propagation 5 Model
Validation and Prediction 6 Making Decisions 7 Next Steps in
Practice, Research, and Education for Verification, Validation, and
Uncertainty Quantification Appendixes Appendix A: Glossary Appendix
B: Agendas of Committee Meetings Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix D: Acronyms
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Identifying the Culprit - Assessing Eyewitness Identification (Paperback)
Committee on Scientific Approaches to Understanding and Maximizing the Validity and Reliability of Eyewitness Identification in Law Enforcement and the Courts, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, Policy and Global Affairs, Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, …
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Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can
identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of
eyewitnesses make identifications in criminal investigations each
year. Research on factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness
identification procedures has given us an increasingly clear
picture of how identifications are made, and more importantly, an
improved understanding of the principled limits on vision and
memory that can lead to failure of identification. Factors such as
viewing conditions, duress, elevated emotions, and biases influence
the visual perception experience. Perceptual experiences are stored
by a system of memory that is highly malleable and continuously
evolving, neither retaining nor divulging content in an
informational vacuum. As such, the fidelity of our memories to
actual events may be compromised by many factors at all stages of
processing, from encoding to storage and retrieval. Unknown to the
individual, memories are forgotten, reconstructed, updated, and
distorted. Complicating the process further, policies governing law
enforcement procedures for conducting and recording identifications
are not standard, and policies and practices to address the issue
of misidentification vary widely. These limitations can produce
mistaken identifications with significant consequences. What can we
do to make certain that eyewitness identification convicts the
guilty and exonerates the innocent? Identifying the Culprit makes
the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness
identification, new law enforcement training protocols,
standardized procedures for administering line-ups, and
improvements in the handling of eyewitness identification in court
can increase the chances that accurate identifications are made.
This report explains the science that has emerged during the past
30 years on eyewitness identifications and identifies best
practices in eyewitness procedures for the law enforcement
community and in the presentation of eyewitness evidence in the
courtroom. In order to continue the advancement of eyewitness
identification research, the report recommends a focused research
agenda. Identifying the Culprit will be an essential resource to
assist the law enforcement and legal communities as they seek to
understand the value and the limitations of eyewitness
identification and make improvements to procedures.
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