In the past (10 years ago +) I have used very successfully OCR programs that can read pdf files and output a pdf file with a built-in searchable text layer. Extremely useful when building a database with pdf files.
I completely agree with Nikkom perspective. It is unbelievable how close the analogy is to implantable medical devices too. Where the shuttle accident reports were evaluated in detail and lessons learned. Sadly the reality always was that before the money was invested, every lesson was used...
I did a back of the envelope reliability analysis similar to those we do for medical devices and calculated what is the reliability level that the worst Nuclear Power Plant (and associated systems, like power lines) should have to have a 99% probability level that NO nuclear plant will have a...
Joe, I have been in several situations similar to what describe but in the pacemaker/defibrillator industry of medical devices. And always the screw-ups got to the top the bosses, but never in writing (so that they could deny knowing), but never to the board of Directors, because it would have...
A friend that does PR for a living once told me that PR is the business of telling the truth in a way that people understand what you want them to understand and that rarely coincides with the truth. I have found the release estimates highly misleading all along. Especially if you look at their...
Not sure if anybody followed up on this, but I do see a peak that could be associated with this event, that we discarded as a non-event. Food for thought. Oh, the video that looked like an accident was happening with flashes that looked like fires and explosions and we dismissed as fog and light...
Did you guys look at the way the releases acknowledged by TEPCO in the document you mentioned are reflected in the CTBTO charts, posted before? Is it reasonable to back extrapolate from that and take a rough guess at newer non-reported releases at later dates from the peaks in the graphs? Am I...
You are describing my problem. In my professional life as a scientist, once too often I've seen "doctoring" of data and since my job was to have my team find the truth, I have had to deal with making conclusions with fuzzy data. I recommend the use of fuzzy logic, not strict physical...
When all data is released to Universities and Scientists worldwide, we will start to have some transparency and will be able to stop worrying about autogain cameras distorting events at night...
Thanks for your post... Glad it is nothing on consequence... I am a sailor apart for engineer and certified to sail on fog and at night... it looked scary to me and not something I have ever seen, but it may have been the camera auto-adjusting its diaphragm, in combination with moving lights at...
Simple, let's check the wind direction and then look for any reports of radiation increases in the region where any fallout should have gone. I may take a few days but will allow us to discard this as a no-event, or maintain it in our list of "inconsistencies" between observations and reported data.
wow, this look really bad to me an no a 'wolf" cry... I did a qualitative luminescence analysis and the amount of light in the scene increases after the release starts, also there are peaks that look like sudden energy releases...