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Pittsburgh International Race Complex. / 40.84897611°N 80.34215889°W / 40.84897611; -80.34215889. Pittsburgh International Race Complex (commonly known as Pitt Race) is an auto racing road course located in Wampum, Pennsylvania. Pitt Race hosts amateur and professional automobile, motorcycle, and karting events.
A fixed Data Capsule of VDR mounted on a container ship. Voyage data recorder, or VDR, is a data recording system designed for all vessels required to comply with the IMO 's International Convention SOLAS Requirements (IMO Res.A.861 (20)) in order to collect data from various sensors on board the vessel. It then digitizes, compresses and stores ...
George Harrison is the eighth studio album by the English rock musician George Harrison, released in February 1979. It was written and recorded through much of 1978, a period of domestic contentment for Harrison, during which he married Olivia Arias and became a father for the first time, to son Dhani. Harrison wrote several of the songs in ...
In cross-cultural psychology, uncertainty avoidance is how cultures differ on the amount of tolerance they have of unpredictability. [1] Uncertainty avoidance is one of five key qualities or dimensions measured by the researchers who developed the Hofstede model of cultural dimensions to quantify cultural differences across international lines ...
The Street Survival program is aimed at teaching young American drivers, age 15-21 the importance of safe driving through emergency and accident avoidance training conducted in their own cars by qualified volunteers and professionals. Since 2002, over 1000 Street Survival Schools have been conducted in the United States and Canada.
Fatigue is a major human factors issue in aviation safety. [1] The Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool ( FAST) was developed by the United States Air Force in 2000–2001 to address the problem of aircrew fatigue in aircrew flight scheduling. [2] FAST is a Windows program that allows scientists, planners and schedulers to quantify the effects of ...
A traffic alert and collision avoidance system ( TCAS, pronounced / tiːkæs /; TEE-kas ), is an aircraft collision avoidance system designed to reduce the incidence of mid-air collision (MAC) between aircraft. It monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other aircraft equipped with a corresponding active transponder, independent of air ...
Basic Safety Training. The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers ( STCW ), requires that seafarers be provided with familiarization training and basic safety training which includes basic fire fighting, elementary first aid, personal survival techniques, and personal safety and social ...