The aim of the article is to present key mechanisms for shaping the safety culture of high reliability organizations through digital transformation, which is now a key challenge for the entire global economy. It is particularly important in processes...
This study examines the available evidence of high reliability organisational (HRO) theory as a strategy to manage construction safety: (1) Background: High reliability organisations (HROs) have been under investigation by organisational scholars to...
The die-bonding layer between chips and substrate determinates the heat conduction efficiency of high-power LED. Sn-based solder, AuSn20 eutectic, and nano-Ag paste were widely applied to LED interconnection. In this paper, the optical–thermal...
With the increasing demand for multi-function and highly integrated space-borne microwave products, a three-dimensional heterogeneous integration based on special substrates and other systems-in-package has difficulty with meeting the requirements of...
In concrete structures, replacing conventional steel bars with high-strength steel reinforcement (HSSR) can effectively save the use of materials. However, the deformation properties and strength dispersion of HSSR are different from those of convent...
The importance of teamwork on patient safety in healthcare has been well established. However, the theory and research of healthcare teams are seriously lacking in clinical application. While conventional team theory assumes that teams are stable and...
The gearbox is essential for power transmission in high-speed trains, and its reliability directly impacts operational safety. Accurate monitoring data and effective assessment methods are crucial for accurately assessing its reliability. This study...
As the core component of electrified railway power supply systems, the fatigue performance and reliability of catenary support structures are directly related to the operational safety of high-speed railways. To address the problem of structural fati...
In the last decades, electromechanical actuators started to be introduced in transport aircraft for primary and secondary flight control surfaces. Some innovative architectures have been proposed in the literature to use these actuators for high-lift...
In order to model and evaluate the reliability of long-life high-voltage relays with small-sample fault data characteristics, a reliability analysis method integrating average rank, the minimum mean square distance empirical distribution function, an...
In order to study the temperature reliability of high-power amplifiers under high cand cold conditions, a 400 W solid-state power amplifier was taken as an example to explore the variation in its performance. The test results showed that its output p...
We have investigated the electrical properties and reliability of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) under high-temperature RF overdrive stress. The experimental results show that the drain current and transconductance of the device...
Satellites become critical to space exploration, global communication, Earth observation, and navigation. There is a growing need for satellite avionics that are highly integrated, reliable, and low-cost, which is essential for mass production and re...
Gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are pivotal for next-generation power-switching applications, but their reliability under high electric fields remains constrained by lattice mismatches and high dislocation densi...
Background/objectives: The oncology setting is complex and recognized as a high-risk area, with an increased potential for errors due to the complexity of therapeutic modalities and different processes. Nurses are pivotal in fostering a culture of pa...
Damage to tunnel lining significantly influences the stability of tunnels during operation, particularly under conditions of extra-high ground stress. This article investigates the stability of tunnel linings subjected to extra-high ground stress, pr...
Mission-critical applications such as telemedicine demand extremely high communication reliability. Multipath redundant transmission ensures reliable packet delivery by concurrently forwarding replicated packets over multiple paths. However, fewer st...
Accurate assessment of the A1 pulley is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of trigger finger, particularly in ultrasound-guided percutaneous release. Although high-resolution ultrasound is widely used to evaluate pulley morphology, the validit...
Tom MacDonald’s success in the music industry can provide valuable insights for leaders and founders, particularly in the context of high-reliability organization (HRO) theory—MacDonald’s approach to music challenges conventional wi...
The uncertain service life of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) imposes constraints on their secure application. In addressing this uncertainty, this study employs the Monte Carlo simulation method for reliability evaluation, quantifying the risk of TB...
This paper presents a compact output-stage current-limiting architecture intended for reliable overcurrent protection in CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuits. In modern integrated systems, the output stages of blocks such as operational amplifiers,...
To assess the long-term fatigue safety of fully enclosed high-speed railway noise barriers and to optimize maintenance strategies, a time-dependent probabilistic reliability framework focusing on fatigue damage and bolt preload relaxation is develope...
Timely and accurate fault location for a 35-kVhigh-reliability distribution network is one of the key technologies to improve the safety and efficiency of distribution network operations. A novel fault location method of 35-kV high-reliability distri...
Reliability analysis of complex engineering products often involves high-dimensional nonlinear state functions, with random variable distributions hard to determine due to limited samples, restricting the fourth-order moment method that fails to link...
High-temperature alkali metal heat pipes are key passive heat-transfer components of heat pipe cooled reactors, space nuclear power sources, and advanced non-light-water reactors; their long-term reliability sets the safety envelope and service life...
Semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery remains constrained by the high cost of pixel-level annotation. Semi-supervised learning can reduce this dependence by exploiting unlabeled images, but improving pseudo-label reliability...
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Construction activities involve a lot of risk as workers are exposed to a wide range of job hazards, such as working at height, moving vehicles, toxic substances, and confined spaces. The hazards related to a construction project are mostly unpredict...
Background/Objectives: Healthy macrovascular and microvascular circulation is essential for wound prevention and healing in high-risk feet. While validated methods of assessing lower limb macrocirculation exist, microcirculation assessment often reli...
This research was conducted in the context of the semiconductor market, with a demand for high-performance and highly integrated semiconductor systems that simultaneously enhance performance and reduce chip size. Scaling down the metal line and via i...
With the advancement of urbanization and motorization, urban traffic conditions increasingly affect both travel efficiency and system stability, yet existing studies based on high-frequency OD data mainly focus on single aspects such as congestion pa...
Safety culture is the result of values, attitudes, and perceptions of the members of an organization that prioritize safety over competing goals. Previous research has shown the impact that organizational aspects can have in safety performance. Under...
Sustainable development is of great significance. The emerging research on data-driven computational sustainability has become an effective way to solve this problem. This paper presents a fault diagnosis and prediction framework for complex systems...
It is often difficult for a structural safety design method based on deterministic analysis to fully and reasonably reflect the randomness of mechanical parameters, while the traditional reliability analysis method has a large calculation cost and lo...
In order to solve the problem of the high cost of coal-based solid waste bulk stacking and paste filling in the large-scale coal electrification base in East NingXia, in this study, fly ash is skillfully used to replace the broken coal gangue as the...
Accurate and quantitative pain assessment remains a major challenge in clinical medicine, especially for patients unable to verbalize discomfort. Conventional methods based on self-reports or clinician observation are subjective and inconsistent. Thi...
The randomness of earthquake excitation has a significant impact on the seismic performance of high earth-rock dams. In this paper, the seismic performance of geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures (GRSS) of high concrete face rockfill dams (CFRDs)...
The peak voltage depending on the load current can be affected by the external capacitors installed in the output stage of the LDO regulator. However, the capacitor-less LDO regulator proposed in this study was applied a current driving buffer struct...
The reliability instability of inhomogeneous Schottky contact behaviors of Ni/Au and Pt/Ti/Pt/Au gate contacts on AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) was investigated via off-state stress and temperature. Under the off-state stress c...
With the increasing requirements for chip data storage capabilities in fields such as automotive electronics and the Internet of Things, Flash memory is becoming more and more widely used. This paper presents a 512 KBytes Flash memory array with high...
Due to the limited and difficult access to sensor energy, energy conservation has always been an important issue in wireless body area network (WBAN). How to make full use of the limited energy of heterogeneous sensors in WBAN to achieve lightweight...
As the development of High-Speed Railways (HSRs) shifts from scale expansion to quality and efficiency, high-density timetables face increasing challenges regarding operational stability. Traditional capacity metrics often prioritize volume over serv...
An urban environment defines a specific micro-climate which directly affects the quality of life in urbanized areas and often has a negative impact on urban populations. Phenomena like urban heat and surface heat islands are direct products of an urb...
Very-high-resolution (VHR) bi-temporal images change detection (CD) is a basic remote sensing images (RSIs) processing task. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown great feature representation abilities in computer vision tas...
The main objective of our paper is to propose an approach to studying the mechatronic system’s reliability through the reliability of their high electron mobility transistors (HEMT). The operating temperature is one of the parameters that influences...
The research scope of the papers published in this Special Issue mainly focuses on high-precision and high-reliability positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) or multi-source sensors, resilient PNT wit...
High-power semiconductor lasers have attracted widespread attention because of their small size, easy modulation, and high conversion efficiency. They play an important role in national economic construction and national defense construction, includi...
With the aim of achieving the combat technical requirements of super-quick (SQ) initiation and reliable self-destruction (SD) of a small-caliber projectile fuze, this paper describes a high-functional-density integrated (HFDI) inertial switch based o...
The owners/operators of complex assets such as production systems, military equipment and power stations aim to achieve high reliability with financial sustainability over long periods of time, and rely on a combination of internal and external socio...
For providing advanced desalination the combination of the improvement of water recovery ratio in the reverse osmosis (RO) process and the No-Chlorine/No-Sodium Bisulfite (SBS) Dosing process was studied. In order to prevent membrane fouling even in...
The long-term application of sensors in a high-temperature environment needs to address several challenges, such as stability at high temperatures for a long time, better wiring interconnection of sensors, and reliable and steady connection of the se...
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