Massachusetts Wind and Noise Technical Advisory Group—Status report

TAGSI is an acronym for The UK Technical Advisory Group on the Structural Integrity of High Integrity Plant. The purpose of TAGSI is to address and make recommendations on issues raised by its sponsoring organisations in discussion with independent advisors. Collectively, these sponsoring organisations operate, maintain, assess and regulate nuclear power producing and chemical plant. Against this background, an overview is presented of the recent work of TAGSI in terms of structural integrity issues addressed, symposia organised, and output appearing in the open literature. Other papers at this conference describe some of the technical work of TAGSI in more detail.

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Utility photovoltaic group: Status report

10.1063/1.49362 ◽

1996 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey A. Serfass ◽

Stephen L. Hester ◽

Bethany N. Wills

Keyword(s):

Status Report ◽

Group Status

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Cumulative antibiogram and multidrug-resistant organisms in a regional equine referral hospital

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation ◽

10.1177/1040638720977478 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 149-155

Author(s):

Ka Y. Yuen ◽

Justine S. Gibson ◽

Sophia Hinrichsen ◽

Carlos E. Medina-Torres ◽

Francois-Rene Bertin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Utility ◽

Multidrug Resistant ◽

Referral Hospital ◽

Advisory Group ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Local Resistance ◽

Development Of Resistance ◽

Technical Advisory Group ◽

Resistance Patterns ◽

Culture Positive

Prudent use of antimicrobials is paramount to slow the development of resistance and for successful treatment. The use of cumulative antibiograms will allow evidence-based antimicrobial selection with consideration of local resistance patterns. We generated a “first-isolate-per-patient” cumulative antibiogram for a regional equine referral hospital. Bacterial organisms cultured from horses between 2011 and 2018, sample origin, antimicrobial susceptibilities, and multidrug-resistant (MDR) status were tabulated. Of 1,176 samples, 50% were culture positive. Overall, 93 of 374 (25%) were MDR. Of the MDR isolates, 11 (12%) were susceptible to high-importance antimicrobials only (as defined by the Australian Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on antimicrobial resistance). β-hemolytic streptococci were uniformly susceptible to penicillin (76 of 76); 17 of 20 (85%) non–β-hemolytic Streptococcus spp. were susceptible to penicillin. Despite veterinary-specific challenges in constructing an antibiogram, our study provides an exemplar of the clinical utility of regional-, farm-, or hospital-specific cumulative antibiograms for evidence-based empirical antimicrobial selection by veterinarians prior to susceptibility result availability.

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Crashworthiness and Puncture Protection Analyses of Liquified Natural Gas Tenders

2015 Joint Rail Conference ◽

10.1115/jrc2015-5812 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steven W. Kirkpatrick ◽

Claudia Northrup

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Cost Savings ◽

Safety Performance ◽

Advisory Group ◽

Rail Network ◽

Performance Requirements ◽

Industry Standards ◽

Technical Advisory Group ◽

Class 1 ◽

Fuel Source

The extensive North American freight rail network is currently operated with diesel as the sole fuel source. However, the Class 1 railways have recently started to explore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel source, which has a lower environmental impact and could provide fuel cost savings compared to diesel. The efforts to develop industry standards for fuel tenders is being led under the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Natural Gas Fuel Tender (NGFT) Technical Advisory Group (TAG), a joint effort of the AAR Locomotive, Tank Car, and Equipment Engineering Committees, with multiple participants from industry. A significant section of the standards for LNG tenders are the performance requirements to ensure safety in collisions. As part of this effort, the NGFT TAG has been working in partnership with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to define a suitable set of collision load cases and associated safety performance requirements. In support of these efforts, a series of analyses have been performed for the various collision load cases to support the development of suitable methodologies to evaluate the load cases and inform the NGFT TAG and other stakeholders related to the safety performance of NGFT designs. Results from these efforts are described in this paper.

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