Background/Objectives: Software changes and technical failures can alter the treatment delivered by a digital intervention or the data used to evaluate it. In trials alongside pharmacotherapy, medication use and replacement care may also affect the c...
Technical failures in helicopters are a main concern for helicopter safety. The prominence of mechanical failures differs for specific helicopter operations. This analysis used 151 General Aviation accident reports from the National Transportation Sa...
Design-build contractors are challenged with the task of minimizing failure risks when introducing new technical solutions or adapting technical solutions to new conditions, e.g., climate change. They seem to have a disproportional trust in suppliers...
The paper provides findings on the technical efficiency of the European dairy processing industry, which is one of the most important subsectors of the food processing industry in the European Union (EU). The ability to efficiently use inputs in the...
Sea-going ships are unique systems, and each ship—even those which are mass-produced—are different. Once in service, they are subjected to unique environmental exposure due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, their mod...
Systemic data bias constitutes a major source of failure in real-world AI systems and represents a regulatory challenge that remains insufficiently addressed by existing legal frameworks, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. Although the AI...
The U.S. Liberty Ship Building Program in World War II set a record—a total of 2700 Liberty Ships were built in 6 years, in order to support the battle against Nazi-Germany. However, numerous vessels suffered sudden fracture, some of them being split...
Background/Objectives: Transjugular liver biopsy (TJLB) occasionally fails, most commonly because of difficulty in hepatic vein (HV) catheterization. We investigated whether the HV–inferior vena cava (IVC) confluence angle measured on CT or MRI...
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Road traffic accidents result in injury or even death of passengers. One potential cause of these accidents is mechanical failures due to a lack of vehicle maintenance. In the quest to identify these mechanical failures, this paper aims to set up the...
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) has been used to successfully characterize the mechanical behavior of healthy and diseased muscles, but no study has been performed to investigate the reliability of MRE on lumbar muscles. The objective of this w...
Metro station emergencies are increasingly characterized by compound hazards, where multiple disruptions interact across emergency management stages. Existing approaches typically focus on technical failures or isolated stages, overlooking how manage...
The current understanding of critical health infrastructure resilience is still dominated by a technical perspective. Reality however is different, as past events including the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed: emergency situations are only rarely exc...
In order to develop and improve bio-inspired fibers, it is necessary to have a proper understanding of the fracture behavior of bio-fibers such as flax fibers from an individual fiber down to the constituent micro-fibrils and nano-fibrils. For invest...
Background: Hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) chemotherapy for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) is delivered through a port–catheter system implanted percutaneously by interventional radiology or surgically. Previous studies have pooled device...
Since the first pancreas transplant in 1966, over 67,000 pancreas transplants have been performed worldwide and the number is growing. While the number of transplants in the US has changed only slightly over the past decade, many countries outside th...
Transport is associated with high amounts of energy consumed and greenhouse gases emitted. Most transport means operate using fossil fuels, creating the urgent need for a rapid transformation of the sector. In this research, we examine the transport...
Background: Failure to rescue (FTR), defined as death after major postoperative complications, is a critical quality indicator in pancreatic cancer surgery. Despite advances in surgical techniques and perioperative care, FTR rates remain high and var...
Background and Objectives: Implant-supported single crowns have become a routine approach for the replacement of missing single teeth, being considered as one of the most common ways of rehabilitation when adjacent teeth are healthy. The present...
The Post Office Horizon scandal represents one of the most severe miscarriages of justice in modern British legal history, rooted in the deployment of a defective IT system and the institutional suppression of evidence that exposed its unreliability....
The present work is devoted to the analysis of the most important reliability indicators of components of electrical devices of mining dump trucks, and analytical methods of their evaluation are proposed. A mathematical model for calculating the reli...
With the evolution of data collection technologies, sensor-generated data have become the norm. However, decades of manually recorded maintenance data still hold untapped value. Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers new ways to extract insights fr...
The reliability of the electro-power equipment of electrical power transmission systems is essential in ensuring an uninterrupted power supply with the necessary voltage and frequency stability. This is especially important when performing lengthy pr...
Heart failure (HF) represents a growing public health concern, driven by rising prevalence and the challenge of frequent, costly (re-)hospitalizations from decompensation. To address these, HF management has progressed towards incorporating devices f...
This case study examines an encryption failure incident involving the exposure of sensitive personal data within a governmental information system environment. The analysis is based on the well-documented data breach that occurred within the U.S. Dep...
The creation and application of classification category labels are essential tasks for transforming complex information into structured knowledge. Categories are used for summary and reporting purposes and have historically been identified by domain...
The transition toward a circular economy (CE) represents an urgent industrial imperative under the European Green Deal, requiring fundamental restructuring from linear throughput to closed-loop socio-technical systems. While small and medium-sized en...
Digital health solutions increasingly rely on interoperable software platforms that integrate heterogeneous data sources, support remote patient monitoring and deliver clinical decision support while complying with strict security, privacy and regula...
Background: Comparative data of the Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC-3)-defined technical success between bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic stenosis (AS) remain lacking. Aims: We sought to compare the technical success and other clinical outco...
In this era of subspecialty care in orthopedics, iterations of implant design can occur in a silo which then precludes gaining knowledge from failures of implant design that may have occurred in different subspecialties. This literature review descri...
Lately, a new technical solution, pre-compressed joint sealing tapes in precast concrete sandwich panel facades, has been introduced in Sweden. Although the consequences of performance failure can go far beyond the component, affecting the building,...
The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic literature review with a subsequent meta-analysis on the technical complications and failures of removable partial denture (RPD) therapy in the moderately reduced dentition. A systematic literature se...
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is a common orthopedic procedure, but graft failure remains a significant complication, particularly in young and active individuals. Understanding the multifactorial etiology of failure and optimizing...
Background: Specialist literature indicates a large share of the human factor among the causes of failure of technical systems at the level of 70 to 90%, which depends on the sector studied. The collective water supply system is an anthropotechnical...
Robots are increasingly used in healthcare to support caregivers in their daily work routines. To ensure an effortless and easy interaction between caregivers and robots, communication via natural language is expected from robots. However, robotic sp...
Background: A paravalvular leak (PVL) is a complication following valve replacement, which may lead to heart failure and hemolysis. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the clinical outcome after transcatheter PVL closure differs according...
Blockchain is a distributed database technology that enables immutable, verifiable data recording, properties that are useful for failure analysis processes requiring high data integrity and traceability. In conveyor belt failure analysis, there is a...
Water distribution networks are often assessed mainly through the number of recorded failures, although this indicator does not fully reflect the technical and economic burden imposed on utilities. This study proposes an Operational Failure-Cost Asse...
The advancement of automated driving technologies offers potential safety and efficiency gains, yet safety remains the primary barrier to higher-level deployment. Failures in automated driving systems rarely result from a single technical malfunction...
Bone-conduction implants are a standard therapeutic option for patients with conductive, unilateral, or mixed hearing loss who either do not tolerate conventional hearing aids or can benefit from surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate long-te...
Failure analysis is a complex task that plays a fundamental role in technical applications [...]
Technical systems, which form the basis of modern technology, are structures designed to achieve a specific purpose by bringing together different components. In this respect, they have a wide field of study. Our study is aimed at the general evaluat...
The study develops and implements a methodology for prioritizing power units (PUs) of captive power plants (CPPs) to support the development of maintenance and repair (M&R) programs considering their actual technical condition (TC) and reliabilit...
The rhythmic and stable operation of trolleybuses and autonomous trolleybuses or urban electric buses, depends to a large extent on the reliability of the equipment installed on the trolleybus. The actual operational reliability of trolleybus electri...
This paper contends that the semiotic failure in generative art is not merely a technical anomaly to be optimized away, but a critical aesthetic event that exposes the internal mathematical constraints of non-human computational models. Bridging Dona...
Existing analyses of the February 2017 Oroville Dam Crisis identify maintenance failures and engineering shortcomings as the root cause of a nearly catastrophic failure of the tallest dam in the United States. However, the focus on technical shortcom...
Background: Testicular torsion is a urological emergency that requires prompt diagnosis and surgical intervention to preserve testicular viability. Bilateral orchidopexy is widely regarded as the definitive treatment for the prevention of recurrence....
Background: In percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), the impact of prolonged fluoroscopy time (FT) on procedural outcomes is poorly studied. Methods and Results: We analyzed the outcomes of 12,538 consecutive elective PCIs. The primary endpoint...
The number of server failures, including those in radiotherapy, has dramatically increased over the past 5 years, primarily due to cyberattacks. Despite this trend, many clinics remain unprepared to handle such situations effectively. While it is pos...
In intelligent technical multi-sensor systems, information is often at least partly redundant—either by design or inherently due to the dynamic processes of the observed system. If sensors are known to be redundant, (i) information processing can be...
Ceramic matrix composites with environmental barrier coatings (CMC/EBCs) are the most promising material solution for hot section components of aero-engines. It is necessary to access relevant information and knowledge of the physical properties of v...
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