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Study of Aircraft Wing Flap Hydraulic System Dynamics Under Damages Due to Operating an Aircraft
Authors: Błachnio Józef , Gronczewski Andrzej 
Published: October 2008

Study of Aircraft Wing Flap Hydraulic System Dynamics Under Damages Due to Operating an Aircraft
The paper indicates the main reasons for faulty operation of aeroplane wing flap hydraulic systems. A mathematical model of the wing flap dynamics has been presented, allowing an analysis of a simulation study taking into account damages due to usual wear and tear during operating of a plane.
The Combinatorial Diagnostic Entropy and Symptoms' Informativity
Authors: Borowczyk Henryk 
Published: October 2008

The Combinatorial Diagnostic Entropy and Symptoms' InformativityThis paper presents combinatorial measures of the system condition uncertainty (diagnostic entropy) and the diagnostic symptoms' informativity. The multi-valued diagnostic model has been assumed. Proposed measures can be used in the manner similar to Shannon entropy use for the diagnostic model analysis and the diagnostic algorithm planning process.
Semi-Markov Models of Safety of the Renewal Systems Operation
Authors: Franciszek Grabski , Jerzy Jaźwiński 
Published: October 2008

Semi-Markov Models of Safety of the Renewal Systems Operation
Usually, the renewal systems are mathematically described by the alternating renewal process, which is special case of the semi-Markov process. It allows us to find the basic reliability characteristics like the renewal function, the operational availability of the system and many other. Many papers are devoted to that problem. Very often the operation of the system is perturbed by the danger events. The operation process of the system is broken or stopped. In that case we can say that the unsafety event occurred. Semi-Markov model of the safety of operation is constructed in this paper. The safety characteristics of the system operation are calculated by using the properties of the semi-Markov processes.
The Application of Risk Analysis in the Assessment and Management of Road Safety in Road Tunnels
Authors: Jamroz Kazimierz 
Published: October 2008

The Application of Risk Analysis in the Assessment and Management of Road Safety in Road TunnelsRoad tunnels are highly sensitive to disturbance caused by road accidents. The most serious accidents occurring in tunnels involve trucks carrying hazardous materials. Europe has been developing methods of risk analysis and building models for traffic management in tunnels. Poland is only just beginning to build road tunnels and the area of tunnel safety has not been given adequate attention yet.
Problems of Identification of Operation Processes for Low Cost Carriers
Authors: Kierzkowski Artur 
Published: October 2008

Problems of Identification of Operation Processes for Low Cost Carriers
Article discusses chosen aspects of low cost carriers airships' operation. Proper planning of net connection is one of the most important factor of their functioning as well as the creation of the ideal maintenance schedules. Reasonable service system, dedicated to maintain high aircrafts' airworthiness, seems, however, to be feasible to create. Important factors influencing the process of airships' operation are highlighted: port slot, sectorial capacity, base maintenance, line maintenance. Moreover, further directions of research are also described in the final part of the article.
The Safety of Ship During Berthing Manoeuvre Process to the Quay
Authors: Galor Wiesław 
Published: October 2008

The Safety of Ship During Berthing Manoeuvre Process to the Quay
The berthing of ship to the quay is last stage of navigation advance. An ideal manoeuvre would be consisted in a total loss of speed at the moment the ship makes contact with the quay. The accident can happened as results of unwanted ship's strike to the quay. In results, the damage of ship's hull or port structure can occur. It can happened when will be exceeding the admissible energy during contact the ship-quay. The fenders improve the safety of berthing operations by partially absorbing the kinetic energy of ship. The paper presents the analysis of risk of accident when ship berthing. Besides, the possibility of its decreasing by use of fenders will be considered.
New Technologies for Air Traffic Security
Authors: Loroch Leszek , Żyluk Andrzej 
Published: October 2008

New Technologies for Air Traffic Security
Security of increasing intensity of air traffic requires significant technological support. In Europe, the dynamics of this phenomenon will be additionally stimulated by implementation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the air traffic. For effective operation of aircraft fleet it is necessary to employ new on-board diagnostic devices and flight recorders in order to evaluate technical condition of aircraft's instrumentation. Reducing the pilots' workload requires the development of new integrated digital avionics. On the other hand, in order to make the air traffic more secure, it is necessary to develop "sense and avoid" systems not only for UAVs, but for piloted aircraft, as well. On-ground support requires the effective airport/airfield protection and keeping airfield pavements well-maintained and safe.
Safety of Flying in the Air in Aspect of Using Electronic Warfare Device
Authors: Masiewicz Mariusz , Loroch Leszek 
Published: October 2008

Safety of Flying in the Air in Aspect of Using Electronic Warfare Device
The paper presents some problems of the safety of military air forces in the area of enemy air defence. Recently, this problem has become one of the most important issues of fighting against terrorists. Presented are some threats and techniques of fighting them. On the grounds of the threats analysis in the air defence areas, the author tries to predict safety condition in function of the quality and effectiveness of an onboard electronic warfare system.
The Numerical Analysis of Weldability in the Design and Technological Processes Influence on the Exploitation Condition and Quality
Authors: Ranatowski Eugeniusz , Muślewski Łukasz 
Published: October 2008

The Numerical Analysis of Weldability in the Design and Technological Processes Influence on the Exploitation Condition and QualityNumerical weldability analysis is a new powerful research and development tool which is useful for metallurgists, technologist and design engineers. Saying strictly the numerical analysis of weldability comprises thermodynamic, thermomechanical and microstructural modelling of the welding process. The result of this analysis is material susceptibility (SU). The fracture resistance of welded joints is mainly characterised by normalised parameters:KIth/ KIC; δ / δc, J / Jc;in the exploitation condition. From above-mentioned equations results that does not exist one global parameter which defines the step of susceptibility SU of base materials has been also executed with use of SINTAP program and Computational Welding Mechanics (CWM).
Functional and Operational Structures of the Motorway Telematics System
Authors: Wawrzyński Wojciech , Siergiejczyk Mirosław 
Published: October 2008

Functional and Operational Structures of the Motorway Telematics System
The paper presents the issues relating to the identification of functional and operational structures of the motorway telematics system. General functional structure of the motorway telematics system has been presented, as well as its components used for transmission, transfer and reception of information. Then, the information flow process has been shown for a selected group of telematics services during the tolling process.
Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Subsystem
Authors: Izabela Zimoch 
Published: October 2008

Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Subsystem
This paper presents results of detailed reliability analysis of water distribution subsystem operation of Krakow city. Basis of the research was wide base of information of occurred failures during exploitation (1996-2006). These analysis included evaluation of basic factors such as: failure and renovation intensities, mean recovery time and mean time to failure, availability factor and probability of failure-free operation at any time. Moreover, it was performed wide analysis of failure capability of pipes as a function of its diameter and material. The paper consists also of research results of occurred piping failures reasons and consequences.
Mental Health Services for Youth
Authors: Warren W. 
Published: October 2008

This paper discusses some of the mental health problems that occur among Youth, and some of the services that have been set up to deal with them in the United Kingdom. While fairly widespread, they are limited through their rather narrow scope. Some of the difficulties encountered are pointed out, including shortages of trained man-power. Suggestions are made on what further could be done to widen these services. It is realised, however, that what is applicable to one country is not necessarily so to another. Psychiatric services especially for adolescents are nevertheless spreading. Can Adolescent Psychiatry yet qualify as another sub-specialty in psychiatry?
Youth Unrest and the Psychiatrist in Sri Lanka
Authors: Wijesinghe C. P. 
Published: October 2008

Unemployment of educated youth is a major factor leading to youth unrest in Sri Lanka. In addition to an absolute reduction of employment opportunities, the personal aspirations of youth are not consistent with the demands of the labour-market. The historical reasons for this trend are analysed. The difficulties experienced by less affluent youth who pursue higher education are presented. The nature of psychiatric casualty among this group of students and the therapeutic problems involved are discussed.
Psychiatric Disorders following Road Traffic and Industrial Injuries
Authors: Culpan Roger , Taylor Christine 
Published: October 2008

The nature and prognosis of psychoneurotic disorders following accidental injury have long been a source of argument. The present authors have endeavoured to follow up and classify 82 subjects referred by solicitors for psychiatric evaluation following injury. The subsequent progress of 71 (87%) of the original consecutive sample was successfully obtained. Approximately one-third of the group were disabled by neurotic symptoms which appeared to result from the emotional stress of the accident itself and were thus classified as suffering from true “traumatic neurosis”. These patients improved with the passage of time. About one-half of the group were thought to be unconsciously motivated by the possibility of financial compensation and these patients failed to improve or became worse up until the time of settlement of their claims. The sample also included 5 (6%) frank malingerers; the subjects with “compensation neurosis” invariably denied concern over the outcome of their lawsuits. Only two of the group received psychiatric treatment following termination of their litigation and only one able-bodied worker was known not to have returned to work by the end of the study. The need for early recognition of the fact that a neurotic disorder is being perpetuated by secondary gain factors is stressed.
Haloperidol and Chlorpromazine: A Double-Blind Cross-Over Trial and Clinical Study in Children and Adolescents
Authors: Lewis P. J. E. , James N. McI. 
Published: October 2008

It is possible that the most powerful “drug” in childhood management is the emotionally warm, reality orientated and consistently predictable parent. Such a concept can be exitended to the doctor or any other professional worker who is perceived to have similar qualities by his patients (Balint 1961). Against this, when psychoactive drugs are prescribed for children, one has to evaluate their varying pharmacological effects. This includes placebo and side effects which themselves may have a dynamic interaction and facilitate or retard behavioural changes in the child and attitudes in the parent. Generally child psychiatrists are reluctant to exhibit drugs in the first instance as all too frequently by the time a child is referred there is a history of multiple drug failure. It is believed that for this reason drugs may be underor over-valued and that the indications for their use are not yet well established. Yet it is the clinical experience of most professional workers in this field that drugs exert both powerful and specific effects and should be included in the therpeutic armamentarium. This study attempts to assess the symptoms, traits and behaviour of a sample of disturbed children over a specified period during which they were given a sequence of psychoactive drugs, a placebo and a no-drug period. An attempt was made at the same time to assess the observable dynamics of the parent-child interaction and the probable relationship this has to the effects of psychoactive drugs.
The Galvanic Skin Response Inhibition Threshold: A Preliminary Study with an Australian Sample
Authors: Byrne D. G. , Tottman V. 
Published: October 2008

Galvanic skin response (G.S.R.) inhibition thresholds, giving an index of barbiturate tolerance, were determined for 20 depressive and 10 normal subjects. Barbiturate tolerance was found to effectively differentiate neurotic from psychotic depressives, and both these groups from normal controls. Neurotic depressives generally exhibited high G.S.R. inhibition thresholds relative to normals, while psychotic depressives exhibited low thresholds relative to normals. These results are discussed in terms of previous research on the sedation threshold. The G.S.R. inhibition threshold was found in some groups, to be systematically influenced by manifest anxiety. However, neither depressive severity nor age influenced barbiturate tolerance. Some potential clinical and experimental uses of the G.S.R. inhibition threshold are discussed.
Psychotherapy in a Large Open Family Group
Authors: Dinnen Anthony , Bell David S. 
Published: October 2008

A technique of psychotherapy is reported, using a large open group of theoretically unlimited lifetime. Family and friends are encouraged to attend and new members are added independently of those leaving the group. Various features of such a group are conparable to small group analysis. The group may be used for the exploration and treatment of family psychopathology. Meetings containing 20 or more members, with several families being represented, are not uncommon. Observers likewise are not limited in number and the group serves a useful teaching and training function as a consequence. A wide range of patients, including those regarded as unsuitable or too difficult for conventional psychotherapeutic management, may be treated by this technique. Illustrative cases are described. The purpose of this paper is to describe a technique of group psychotherapy which has been practised over a period of several years and which differs in some important respects from established methods. This technique, the large open family group, has proven itself to be useful in treating a wide range of patients.
The Infant Development Distress (IDD) Syndrome: A Predictor of Impaired Development?
Authors: Ironside Wallace 
Published: October 2008

A group of eight infants with a disorder termed the IDD syndrome and another group of eight matched healthy infants taken into study at the same time have been followed-up for 6.75 years. The follow-up technique and some findings are described. Three IDD syndrome children are still severely disturbed. Three others show recovery from severe developmental disturbance. But one child who was grossly abused after being taken into the study has been well since the third follow-up. The comparison children have not experienced comparable problems. A qualified affirmative to the question of predictive power is given and discussed.
Abandoning the Mentally ILL
Authors: Barton Russell 
Published: October 2008

Mentally ill people have been avoided and abandoned by their families and public authorities for hundreds of years. Present day abandonment includes the deployment of professionals from patients to paper; the destruction of availability and effectiveness of institutional facilities; the obfuscation of mental illness by captious, sematic criticism; the aspirations of paramedical and paraprofessional groups; and the subordination of the primary purpose of institutions and physicians to other objectives. The nature of authority is discussed and the need for the treatment of mentally ill people to be based on the art and science of medicine, rather than the pretension and advocacy of the gullible, unqualified or unscrupulous, is noted.
Good Death: Responsible Choice in a Changing Society
Authors: Saclier A. L. 
Published: October 2008

Revolutionary advances in social and medical knowledge and technology have radically changed the conditions which precede death for an increasing number of people. The fear of death is being replaced by the dread of too-prolonged life, a feature of which is a widely documented incidence of both pain and physical and mental distress. This situation has produced the accelerating social demand for euthanasia (a painless inducement of death, preferably by medical means) to be legally available to a suffering person earnestly desiring it. The attitudes of medical workers are ambivalent, trapped as they are between a changing society and intransigent law. Psychiatry, however, and its concern for the whole person, is potentially an ally of those who desire to educate the community to a healthier view of death, even a planned death, as a part of life and a responsible conclusion to it.
A Mirror Image Out-Patient Study at a Depot Phenothiazine Clinic
Authors: Marriott Peter , Hiep Albert 
Published: October 2008

This Mirror Image Study, at a specialised clinic, has shown a significant reduction in days spent in Hospital. Individual features of the sample include sex and age difference in the sub-groups for dosage, duration of treatment and anti-Parkinsonian medication. Preliminary cost-effectiveness analysis has been reported.
Family Interaction and Adolescent Suicidal Behaviour: A Preliminary Investigation
Authors: Williams Christopher , Lyons Christina M. 
Published: October 2008

While investigators have emphasized the importance of familial relations in the production of suicidal behaviour in adolescence, experimental evaluation of specific family interaction processes has, thus far, been neglected. The aim of the present study was to investigate possible relationships between adolescent suicidal behaviour and total on-going family functioning. Hypotheses were advanced to evaluate the communication, interaction and reinforcement patterns in families. A modified revealed differences technique was employed to elicit standardized segments of interaction which were video-taped and later studied by two indepenent raters. The sample consisted of twelve individually matched, intact family tetrads, six normal (N) and six containing an adolescent female who had exhibited suicidal behaviour (SM). Results suggest that SM families constitute a malfunctioning system which can be differentiated from that of normal samples. As compared with the N group, SM family interaction evidenced less effective productivity, specificity, and adaptive interaction, and higher rates of conflict and negative reinforcement. Overall findings were discussed in terms of current family theory and their possible relationship to the genesis, maintenance and management of some classes of suicidal behaviour.
Evaluation of an Inpatient Service by Consumer Feedback
Authors: Ahmed M. Basheeruddin , Koltuv Myron 
Published: October 2008

Over the past few years, the Sound View-Throgs Neck Community Mental Health Center has conducted a number of studies of client satisfaction with our services. The findings suggest that the majority of clients are generally satisfied with the help they receive. However, the level of satisfaction apparently depends on specific aspects or features of the program being evaluated, as well as the particular unit which is providing the services. We have used face-to-face, telephone, and mail survey procedures in these studies; and we have sampled both clients who have completed their treatment and those in the early phases of the treatment process. In one of the studies, the former SVTN-CMHC patients we surveyed had been hospitalized in the inpatient unit located at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. We randomly selected one hundred patients who had been discharged from the unit during the first six months of 1971. After excluding children under the age of sixteen, patients who were subsequently hospitalized or were too symptomatic to be interviewed, and those living outside New York City, we interviewed twenty-five ex-patients. We asked questions about their feelings related to the need for hospitalization, their present problems, whether hospitalization had helped them, their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ward life, and their feelings about discharge. The results indicated that these ex-patients felt at least moderately satisfied with their hospital experience. However, they were relatively dissatisfied with provisions for privacy on the ward, the fact that doctors and other hospital staff were not readily available to them, the doctor's understanding of their problems, and the evening recreation programs. There was some discrepancy between the ratings, which were mostly favorable, and the comments, which were predominantly unfavorable. There are various possible explanations for this, ranging from the limited validity of rating items in such a study to the possibility that this group of ex-patients were so accustomed to negative experiences that their overall assessments were not significantly influenced by them. There is some possibility that the highly positive ratings may stem from an unexpected source. For approximately half of the sample, the major purpose of hospitalization was to provide the opportunity to get away from their usual surroundings. The in-hospital treatment per se was relatively unimportant to them, and their favorable ratings may be a way of indicating that the hospital simply served as a refuge, which they were seeking. Since a patient may approach the hospital with, self-defined needs either for treatment or mainly for refuge—it may be worth while to provide alternative programs to meet these different needs. A “refuge” program, for example, may not require an in-hospital environment; and even if it does, the staffing pattern should be different from that of a hospital with a treatment-oriented program.
Double-Blind Comparison of Clozapine with Chlorpromazine in Acute Schizophrenic Illness
Authors: Chiu Edmond , Burrows Graham , Stevenson James 
Published: October 2008

Double Blind comparative trial of a new dibenzodiazepine derivative Clozapine (Leponex) with Chlorpromazine was conducted in the treatment of acute schizophrenic illness over a 6 week period. Factor Analysis of ratings in 9 matched pairs indicates that Clozapine, at 300 mg. per day, is comparable in efficacy to Chlorpromazine in all factors except “Irritability” for which Clozapine appears to be superior. Illness severity and Global Change ratings in all patients showed that Clozapine is more effective in producing a shift towards improvement at the end of 6 weeks. Major side effects reported in Clozapine confirmed sedation and hypersalivation as consistent problems and presence of rigidity and tremor (extra-pyramidal) being at variance with other studies.