Aviation

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Production compilation: a simple mechanism to model complex skill acquisition.

In this article we describe production compilation, a mechanism for modeling skill acquisition. Production compilation has been developed within the ACT-Rational (ACT-R; J. R. Anderson, D. Bothell, M. D. Byrne, & C. Lebiere, 2002) cognitive architecture ...
Niels A Taatgen, Frank J Lee (Hum Factors, 2003SPRING)
production-compilation-simple-mechanism-model-complex-skill.asp

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Fuzzy signal detection theory: analysis of human and machine performance in air traffic control, and analytic considerations.

This paper applies fuzzy SDT (signal detection theory) techniques, which combine fuzzy logic and conventional SDT, to empirical data. Two studies involving detection of aircraft conflicts in air traffic control (ATC) were analysed using both conventional ...
Anthony J Masalonis, Raja Parasuraman (Ergonomics, 200309)
fuzzy-signal-detection-theory-analysis-human-machine-performance-air.asp

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Personality comparison of airline pilot incumbents, applicants, and the general population norms on the 16PF.

Personality comparisons using Cattells 16PF were made between 137 pilot incumbents, 81 pilot applicants, and the general population norms. No significant differences were found between the scores on the personality factors for the Pilot Incumbents and ...
Sandra Wakcher, Kara Cross, Melinda C Blackman (Psychol Rep, 200306)
personality-comparison-airline-pilot-incumbents-applicants-general.asp

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Environmental support promotes expertise-based mitigation of age differences on pilot communication tasks.

The authors investigated whether expertise is more likely to mitigate age declines when experts rely on environmental support in a pilot/Air Traffic Control (ATC) communication task. Pilots and nonpilots listened to ATC messages that described a route ...
Daniel G Morrow, Heather E Ridolfo, William E Menard, Adam Sanborn, Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow, Cliff Magnor, Larry Herman, Thomas Teller, David Bryant (Psychol Aging, 200306)
environmental-support-promotes-expertise-based-mitigation-age.asp

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Applying airline safety practices to medication administration.

Medication administration errors (MAE) continue as major problems for health care institutions, nurses, and patients. However, MAEs are often the result of system failures leading to patient injury, increased hospital costs, and blaming. Costs include ...
Theresa M Pape (Medsurg Nurs, 200304)
applying-airline-safety-practices-medication-administration.asp

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Using aviation safety measures to enhance patient outcomes.

Recent media reports have put a spotlight on the increasing number of medical errors occurring in US health care institutions. In contrast to health cares increasing error rate, the aviation industry is experiencing a decreasing error rate. Could the ...
Russell M Rivers, Diane Swain, William R Nixon (AORN J, 200301)
aviation-safety-measures-enhance-patient-outcomes.asp

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The role of situation assessment and flight experience in pilots decisions to continue visual flight rules flight into adverse weather.

Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is a major safety hazard in general aviation. In this study we examined pilots decisions to continue or divert from a VFR flight into IMC during a dynamic simulation of a ...
Douglas A Wiegmann, Juliana Goh, David OHare (Hum Factors, 2002SUMMER)
role-situation-assessment-flight-experience-pilots-decisions-continue.asp

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Pilot maneuver choice and workload in free flight.

Two experiments examined pilots maneuver choice and visual workload in a free-flight simulation. In Experiment 1, 12 pilots flew a high-fidelity flight simulator with a cockpit display of traffic information and maneuvered to avoid traffic in a simulated ...
Christopher D Wickens, John Helleberg, Xidong Xu (Hum Factors, 2002SUMMER)
pilot-maneuver-choice-workload-free-flight.asp

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Nursing at ground zero: experiences during and after September 11 World Trade Center attack.

The purpose of this study is to discover shared perceptions, feelings, and common experiences of nurses after the September 11th World Trade Center terrorist attack through interpretive analysis of narrative stories of seventeen nurses. Six themes and ...
Suzanne Steffan Dickerson, Mary Ann Jezewski, Christine Nelson-Tuttle, Nancy Shipkey, Nancy Wilk, Blythe Crandall (J N Y State Nurses Assoc, 2002SPRING-SUMMER)
nursing-ground-zero-experiences-after-september-world-trade-center.asp

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Crisis theory and intervention: a critical component of nursing education.

Nurses deal daily with clients and families whose lives are in crisis, yet many feel educationally and professionally unprepared to intervene effectively in crisis situations. The author describes a course in Crisis Theory and Intervention offered to ...
Carla Mariano (J N Y State Nurses Assoc, 2002SPRING-SUMMER)
crisis-theory-intervention-critical-component-nursing-education.asp