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Reliability as a Virtue [PDF]

open access: possiblePhilosophical Studies, 2008
This paper explores what constitutes reliability in persons, particularly intellectual reliability. It considers global reliability, the overall reliability of persons, encompassing both the theoretical and practical realms; sectorial reliability, that of a person in a subject-matter (or behavioral) domain; and focal reliability, that of a particular ...
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The IEEE Reliability Test System-1996. A report prepared by the Reliability Test System Task Force of the Application of Probability Methods Subcommittee

, 1999
This report describes an enhanced test system (RTS-96) for use in bulk power system reliability evaluation studies. The value of the test system is that it will permit comparative and benchmark studies to be performed on new and existing reliability ...
C. Grigg   +17 more
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Content Analysis in Mass Communication: Assessment and Reporting of Intercoder Reliability

, 2002
As a method specifically intended for the study of messages, content analysis is fundamental to mass communication research. Intercoder reliability, more specifically termed intercoder agreement, is a measure of the extent to which independent judges ...
M. Lombard   +2 more
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Reliability

1998
This chapter reviews the reliability for fire pumps, controllers, drivers, and gearboxes. How the reliability can be predicted through fault tree analysis and single point failures is described. The types of failures and history of failures are examined and the most probable types of failures are presented.
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The reliability of an instrument

Social Epistemology, 2004
Salviati… in our time it has pleased God to concede to human ingenuity an invention so wonderful as to have the power of increasing vision four, six, ten, twenty, thirty, and forty times, and an infinite number of objects which were invisible, either because of distance or extreme minuteness, have become visible by means of the telescope.
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Reliability

2005
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the reliability of an adhesive and its impact on the performance of an electronic assembly. The major failure modes of adhesives include loss of adhesion, high thermal impedance, loss of electrical contact, and corrosion.
James J. Licari, Dale W. Swanson
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Is “Ol’ Reliable” Still Reliable?

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2015
Paul G. Barash, Sorin J. Brull
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A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1978
R. C. Young   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reliability

2010
Rousson, V, Gasser, T
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