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Norris, Pippa. "The Nolan Committee: Financial Interests and Constituency Service." Government and Opposition 31, no. 4 (October 1996): 441–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1996.tb01200.x.

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The Nolan Committee Has Put Parliament on Trial. Many believe that standards of public life have fallen into disrepute in recent years. The press has seized upon a series of sleaze issues: cash for parliamentary questions, the Scott inquiry into government contracts, undisclosed gifts from lobbyists, the hidden patronage of quango appointments, and the revolving door between public office and newly privatized company boards. Most believe this succession of stories has eroded public trust and confidence. Ivor Crewe's submission to the committee pointed out that agreement with the statement ‘Most MPs make a lot of money by using public office improperly’ has risen from 46 to 64 per cent in the last nine years. Lord Nolan, reflecting on evidence before his committee, noted: ‘One of the things we have been struck by is the depth of public cynicism about standards of conduct in public life, coupled with damaging cynicism about the motives of those who go into it.’ Some of the disquiet is produced by the succession of sexual imbroglios causing a series of ministerial resignations. Yet this has been of lesser concern to the Nolan Committee than standards of financial propriety at Westminster. The recommendations which emerged so far have focused on the need to avoid potential conflicts of interest, and the need for the transparent disclosure of financial dealings.

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Chowdhury, Morseda, Camille Raynes-Greenow, Ashraful Alam, and Michael J. Dibley. "Making a balanced plate for pregnant women to improve birthweight of infants: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh." BMJ Open 7, no. 8 (August 2017): e015393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015393.

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ObjectivesLow birthweight significantly contributes to neonatal mortality, morbidities and psychosocial debilities throughout the course of life. A large proportion of infants (36–55%) in Bangladesh is born with low birthweight. Nutritional status of women during pregnancy is critical for optimal growth and development of the fetus. Nutrition education has been found to improve maternal nutritional status. Our study aims to determine whether nutrition education with a practical demonstration during pregnancy is an effective intervention for improving the birthweight of infants compared with standard nutrition education only.Methods and analysisWe will conduct a community-based cluster randomised controlled trial in one rural district of Bangladesh. Treatments will be allocated evenly between the study clusters (n=36). Participants in the intervention clusters receive ‘balanced plate nutrition education’ with a practical demonstration from community health workers 4–7 times throughout their entire pregnancy, starting from the first trimester. The control clusters will receive standard nutrition education delivered by public and other healthcare providers as per ongoing antenatal care protocol. Our sample size would be 900 pregnant women to determine 100 g differences in mean birthweight, considering 5% type 1 error, 80% power and an intra-cluster correlation coefficient of 0.03. The primary outcome of the trial is birthweight of the infants and the secondary outcomes include daily caloric intake and dietary diversity score among the pregnant women. Outcomes will be measured at enrolment, third to ninth month of gestation (monthly) and at delivery. Community health workers blinded to the study hypothesis will collect all data.Ethics and disseminationThe study was approved by the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University Ethical Review Committee, Dhaka, Bangladesh. We will communicate the final results to relevant research and public health groups and publish research papers in peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration numberACTRN12616000080426.

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Wu, Yanting, Isabelle Marc, Luigi Bouchard, Fengxiu Ouyang, Zhong-Cheng Luo, Jianxia Fan, Lise Dubois, et al. "Study protocol for the Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI): a multicentre, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial of a multifaceted community-family-mother-child intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity." BMJ Open 11, no. 4 (April 2021): e045192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045192.

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IntroductionChildhood overweight and obesity (OWO) is a primary global health challenge. Childhood OWO prevention is now a public health priority in China. The Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI), one of four trials being undertaken by the international HeLTI consortium, aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted, community-family-mother-child intervention on childhood OWO and non-communicable diseases risk.Methods and analysisThis is a multicentre, cluster-randomised, controlled trial conducted in Shanghai, China. The unit of randomisation is the service area of Maternal Child Health Units (N=36). We will recruit 4500 women/partners/families in maternity and district level hospitals. Participants in the intervention group will receive a multifaceted, integrated package of health promotion interventions beginning in preconception or in the first trimester of pregnancy, continuing into infancy and early childhood. The intervention, which is centred on a modified motivational interviewing approach, will target early-life maternal and child risk factors for adiposity. Through the development of a biological specimen bank, we will study potential mechanisms underlying the effects of the intervention. The primary outcome for the trial is childhood OWO (body mass index for age ≥85th percentile) at 5 years of age, based on WHO sex-specific standards. The study has a power of 0.8 (α=0.05) to detect a 30% risk reduction in the proportion of children with OWO at 5 years of age, from 24.4% in the control group to 17% in the intervention group. Recruitment was launched on 30 August 2018 for the pilot study and 10 January 2019 for the formal study.Ethics and disseminationThe study has been approved by the Medical Research Ethics Committee of the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital in Shanghai, China, and the Research Ethics Board of the Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et Services Sociaux de l’Estrie–CHUS in Sherbrooke, Canada. Data sharing policies are consistent with the governance policy of the HeLTI consortium and government legislation.Trial registration numberChiCTR1800017773.Protocol versionNovember 11, 2020 (Version #5).

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Wang, Dan, Jin Li, Feilong Zhu, Qianqin Hong, Ming Zhang, Min Gao, and Wei Chen. "Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of respiratory rehabilitation following intensive care unit discharge for COVID-19 survivors." BMJ Open 10, no. 12 (December 2020): e041184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041184.

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IntroductionBoth physical and mental disorders may be exacerbated in patients with COVID-19 due to the experience of receiving intensive care; undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation, sedation, proning and paralysis. Pulmonary rehabilitation is aimed to improve dyspnoea, relieve anxiety and depression, reduce the incidence of related complications, as well as prevent and improve dysfunction. However, the impact of respiratory rehabilitation on discharged patients with COVID-19 is currently unclear, especially on patients who have been mechanically ventilated over 24 hours. Therefore, we aim to investigate the efficacy of respiratory rehabilitation programmes, initiated after discharge from the intensive care unit, on the physical and mental health and health-related quality of life in critical patients with COVID-19.Methods and analysisWe have registered the protocol on PROSPERO and in the process of drafting it, we strictly followed the checklist of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Potocols. We will search the PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WanFang, VIP information databases and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database. Additionally, ongoing trials in the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, ClinicalTrials.gov and ISRCTN registry will be searched as well. Studies in English or Chinese and from any country will be accepted regardless of study design. Two review authors will independently extract data and assess the quality of included studies. Continuous data are described as standard mean differences (SMDs) with 95% CIs. Dichotomous data from randomised controlled trials are described as risk ratio(RR) with 95% CIs; otherwise, it is described as odds ratio(OR) with 95% CIs. I2 and the Cochrane’s Q statistic will be used to conduct heterogeneity assessment. The quality of evidence of main outcomes will be evaluated according to the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation(GRADE) criteria. When included studies are sufficient, we will conduct subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis; the publication bias will be statistically analysed using a funnel plot analysis and Egger’s test.Ethics and disseminationOur review, planning to include published studies, does not need the request to the ethical committee. The final results of this review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal after completion.Patient and public involvementNo patient involved.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42020186791.

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Graham, Alistair. "The Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture Standards of Conduct in Public Life." Public Policy and Administration 21, no. 4 (December 2006): 2–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095207670602100402.

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Macaulay, Michael, and Alan Lawton. "Changing the Standards? Assessing the Impact of the Committee for Standards in Public Life on Local Government in England." Parliamentary Affairs 59, no. 3 (June 15, 2006): 474–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsl034.

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Bew, Paul. "The Committee on Standards in Public Life: Twenty Years of the Nolan Principles 1995-2015." Political Quarterly 86, no. 3 (June 6, 2015): 411–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.12176.

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James, Rhoda, and Richard Kirkham. "Slow Progress in Parliament: The Eighth Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life." Modern Law Review 66, no. 6 (November 2003): 906–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1468-2230.2003.06606007.x.

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Gostin, Larry, and Robert F. Weir. "Life and Death Choices after Cruzan: Case Law and Standards of Professional Conduct." Milbank Quarterly 69, no. 1 (1991): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3350124.

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Denton, Matthew. "The Impact of the Committee on Standards in Public Life on Delegated Governance: The Commissioner for Public Appointments." Parliamentary Affairs 59, no. 3 (June 12, 2006): 491–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsl032.

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Books on the topic "Committee on the Conduct of Standards in Public Life"

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Nolan, Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron. and Great Britain Cabinet Office, eds. Standards in public life: Standards of conduct in Local Government in England, Scotland, and Wales : third report of tha Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: HMSO, 1997.

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Congress, Trades Union. The Committee on the Conduct of Standards in Public Life: A further note on quangos. [London]: TUC, 1995.

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Great Britain. Committee on Standards in Public Life. Standards of conduct in the House of Lords: Seventh Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: The Stationery Office, 2000.

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Great Britain. Committee on Standards in Public Life. Standards of conduct in the House of Lords: Seventh Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: [The Committe], 2000.

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Life, Great Britain Committee on Standards in Public. Standards of conduct in the House of Lords: Seventh Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: Committee on Standards in Public Life, 2000.

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Great Britain. Committee on Standards in Public Life. Standards of conduct in the House of Lords: Seventh Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: Committee on Standards in Public Life, 2000.

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Great Britain. Committee on Standards in Public Life. Standards of conduct in the House of Lords: Seventh report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: [The Committe], 2000.

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Great Britain. Committee on Standards in Public Life. Standards of conduct in the House of Lords: Seventh Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. London: [The Committe], 2000.

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. House of Commons Commission. Response to the eighth report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life standards of conduct in the House of Commons. London: Stationery Office, 2003.

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Life, Great Britain Committee on Standards in Public. Standards of conduct in local government in England, Scotland and Wales: Summary of the third report of the committee on standards in public life. London: Stationery Office, 1997.

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Leopold, Patricia. "Standards of Conduct in Public Life." In The Changing Constitution, 394–418. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199579051.003.0016.

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Darling QC, Paul. "Bribery." In Wilmot-Smith on Construction Contracts, 451–69. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832805.003.0017.

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This chapter focuses on the Bribe Payers’ Index, which ranked the construction industry as the sector in which firms were most likely to pay and receive bribes. It reviews the very nature of the construction industry that makes it more susceptible to bribery than other industries as large projects are complex and will often involve interaction between multiple parties. It also emphasizes how bribery can occur at any stage in a construction project, such as in planning, design, tendering, construction, operation, and maintenance. This chapter recounts the reform of the law on bribery that dates back to the Nolan Committee’s Report on Standards in Public Life in 1995, which was set up in response to concerns about unethical conduct by those in public office. It refers to the Law Commission that first made proposals for reform of bribery in its 1998 Report.

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Hamer, Kenneth. "Public or Private Hearing." In Professional Conduct Casebook. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817246.003.0063.

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The rules invariably provide that the committee or tribunal shall sit in private where it is considering the physical or mental health of the practitioner unless there is a public interest in holding the hearing in public that outweighs the needs to protect the privacy or confidentiality of the registrant or others concerned. Examples include General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004, rule 41(3)–(6), Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004, rule 19(2)–(2A), and General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc) Rules 2010, rule 39(2)). The Bar Standards Board Fitness to Practise Regulations (which are concerned with whether a barrister is unfit to practise by reason of an adverse physical or mental condition), rE335, provides that the hearing before a panel or review panel shall be in private, unless the individual requests a public hearing.

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"Regulating Politics: The Committee on Standards in Public Life." In Central Debates in British Politics, 405–24. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315837796-36.

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Hamer, Kenneth. "Proportionality." In Professional Conduct Casebook. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817246.003.0062.

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Proportionality is part of the legal framework of all regulators, particularly at the stages of interim orders and sanction. Proportionality is expressly referred to when considering sanction in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Disciplinary Committee Rules 2015, rule 24(7) (in deciding what sanctions are to be imposed, the panel shall take into account the issue of proportionality). The fitness to practise rules of other bodies may state that the committee shall have regard to any sanctions guidance issued by the regulator: see, for example, General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc) Rules 2010, rule 31(14), and Bar Standards Board, Disciplinary Tribunals Regulations 2017, rE204. The guidance itself will often say that the panel should make sure that any sanction it imposes is appropriate and proportionate, based on the individual facts of the case, and is in the public interest.

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Hine, David, and Gillian Peele. "Building the United Kingdom’s integrity machinery: the role of the Committee on Standards in Public Life." In The regulation of standards in British public life, 52–68. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097133.003.0003.

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Bulmer, W. Elliot. "2002 Draft III: Judiciary, Rights and Substantive Provisions." In Constituting Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748697595.003.0007.

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This chapter, the third of three chapters examining the SNP’s 2002 constitutional text, addresses the judiciary, rights, and substantive provisions of the constitution. As well as examining provisions relating to the appointment and tenure of judges and the processes of judicial review, this chapter includes the draft constitution’s treatment of: nationalism and national identity, statehood, citizenship, religion-state relations, socio-economic rights, ‘fourth branch’ institutions, standards in public life, and local government. It argues that the draft constitution, as a supreme and rigid constitution enforced by judicial review, might be radical and contentious in a UK context, but would be a tried and tested model in the rest of the world, including in most other Westminster-derived polities. It also argues that the text envisages a ‘liberal-procedural’ constitution, in which the constitution acts as a relatively non-prescriptive framework for the conduct of democratic politics, allowing many unsettled issues of identity to be resolved at the sub-constitutional level.

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McCargo, Duncan. "Legalism and Revival of Treason." In Fighting for Virtue, 1–29. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801449994.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the political trials that were a marked feature of public life in Thailand in the decade after 2006. The Thai legal system is primarily dedicated to the preservation of peace and order, rather than to more liberal goals such as promoting rights-based justice, or even to the conservative, technocratic objective of promoting the rule of law. However, the conduct of political trials in the final decade of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's reign led perversely to a decline in peace and order, as the justice system itself became a focus for discontent. Banning pro-Thaksin Shinawatra parties twice in just over eighteen months, while acquitting the Democrat Party on similar charges, provoked accusations of “double standards.” Jailing various pro-Thaksin figures for long spells on the basis of dubious lèse-majesté or cybercrime charges that were framed as acts of treason beggared belief in a twenty-first century democracy. Conflicts between two major political factions were acted out in courtrooms that became proxy sites for much larger, more unmanageable, and unwinnable contests. This book then focuses on a particular period of Thailand's judicial politics: from the contentious April 2006 general election, until the passing away of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October 2016. This was the era of tulakanphiwat, most commonly translated as “judicialization”: an era when the courts were apparently given a special—if rather unclear—royal mission to solve the country's intractable political problems.

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Conference papers on the topic "Committee on the Conduct of Standards in Public Life"

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Kohnen, William. "Manned Underwater Vehicles Operations Consensus Standard." In ASME/USCG 2017 4th Workshop on Marine Technology and Standards. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/mts2017-0409.

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The Manned Underwater Vehicles industry has evolved since the launch of DSV ALVIN in 1964 and the establishment of tourist passenger submersibles in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The emergence of the tourist passenger submersible sector in 1993 prompted the US Coast Guard to regulate commercial marine operations in the interest of public safety through NVIC 5-93. The rules were designed specifically for submersibles selling seats to members of the general public. To ensure public safety, the USCG helped define safeguards for those participants. Submersibles owned by the government, research institutions and corporations; or submersibles used for purposes other than selling rides to members of the general public, were not wholly addressed because growth in that sector was unforeseen. Almost 25 years after its release, the industry is regulated across all sectors of MUV operations by definitions established for the operation of a narrow segment of the industry, the tourism submersibles. However, construction over the past 23 years is 18% tourism submersibles, 8% government and 7% research. The remaining 67% of vessels, fall into an “other” category which does not have adequate definition. This white papers proposes that the Marine Technology Society committee on Manned Underwater Vehicles conduct a study for an updated Manned Underwater Vehicle Operations Safety Guideline with broad participation of the MUV stakeholders; International MUV industry members, Marine Technology Society, ASME PVHO, ABS, DNVGL, US Coast Guard and Navy. The challenge is to find the correct balance of regulatory control and commercial freedom to promote commercial growth while having a robust regulatory framework to manage the various concepts. Paper published with permission.

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Dawson, Richard W., Darrell Iler, and Kevin Koch. "New AAR Procedure Permitting Freight Car Life Beyond 50 Years." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-82848.

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The Interchange Rules of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) limit the life of freight cars to 50 years from the date originally built. Recently, however, the AAR has instituted a new provision under Interchange Rule 88 that permits cars to operate for up to 65 years since their built date. The procedure incorporates two basic portions; demonstrating that the carbody has the structural integrity to last for a total life of 65 years and upgrading specific components on each car. After applying to the AAR Equipment Engineering Committee (EEC) requesting that ILS be granted to a particular group of cars, the car owner has two optional methods to demonstrate the structural integrity of the selected cars. The first option is to perform structural inspections on a specified number of representative cars and to perform a full-scale fatigue test on a test car. In place of the fatigue test, the second option is to perform structural inspections on a larger number of cars and conduct follow-up inspections every five years after receipt of approval. The physical fatigue test incorporates modern engineering best practices by utilizing finite element modeling and full-scale accelerated fatigue testing (AFT). Following the creation of a representative model, several load conditions, both real and worst-case, are then applied to determine the high-stress locations. Using instrumentation at the high-stress locations, a full-scale test is conducted with the car operating in a typical service environment. The objective of full-scale testing is to obtain real strain data and input loads produced by typical environment conditions. AFT enables the required load cycles to be applied to the test car in a dynamic test fixture in weeks or months versus years of actual service. A rapid accumulation of fatigue-damaging cycles representative of the remaining years necessary to bring the total life of the test car to 65 years are applied to the car. The requirements for the components to be replaced or upgraded under Rule 88 are similar to those for new cars and for rebuilt cars. Some components, such as air brake control valves, are to be upgraded to more recent standards. Others are to be replaced in kind with reconditioned parts. Even though the carbody is permitted to operate beyond 50 years, components must still comply with existing AAR and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) age limits. In addition to obtaining Increased Life Status (ILS) from the AAR, the car owner must also apply to the Federal Railroad Administration for authorization to operate the cars beyond the 50-year limit of the FRA Freight Car Safety Standards. This paper will demonstrate the approval process, including AFT testing, as applied to two groups of flat cars in auto rack service, and a group of 60-foot flat cars.

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Sarkar, Subhas. "Developments in Traction Transformer." In 2012 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2012-74098.

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Mass transit systems are gaining increased attention and popularity in the country. With this increased activity, more and more lines are getting added under public transit systems in more and more cities. One of the essential elements in the transit system is the traction transformer which powers the trains. With the emphasis on reliability, there is also increased awareness of the energy efficiency required of the traction substation equipments and the transformer in particular. Traction transformers are not ordinary power or distribution transformers. They have to meet several special requirements, including parameters like voltage regulation, impedance, commutation, short circuit withstand, operation with rectifiers, harmonic losses, wide fluctuation of load currents depending on the cyclic nature, etc. The reliability criteria are stringent and the traction transformers have to be properly designed, manufactured and tested, including short circuit testing for validation. Use of modern design tools like electric and magnetic field mapping and estimation of forces and stresses are helpful in computing them accurately. With the extensive use of vacuum circuit breakers, the subject of interaction of transformers and breakers have come to the foreground. New standards (like IEEE C57.142) have come into existence, which recommend methods to mitigate such effects. The author of this paper and his team has successfully applied these techniques in real life situations to solve problems. Work is in the final stages for preparation of a standard specifically for Traction Power Rectifier Transformers for transit applications (IEEE draft standard 1653.1) under the IEEE Vehicle Standards Committee.

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Sagareli, Sergo. "Traction Power Systems Reliability Concepts." In ASME/IEEE 2004 Joint Rail Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/rtd2004-66012.

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Reliability of a traction power system may be defined as its ability to continuously supply electrical power of adequate quality during sudden disturbances such as a short circuit or loss of system elements, while operating with a normal scheme configuration, or during scheduled maintenance and repairs, without causing safety hazards, train delays or public nuisance. While the utility power systems’ reliability may be expressed in outage minutes per year (or any other time period), which is calculated as a ratio of customers’ electrical energy deprivation to system’s total power capacity, for a traction power systems’ reliability evaluation, minutes of train delays caused by power interruption or relative values such as delay minutes per passenger-mile may be utilized. Considering the accelerated growth of traction power systems across the US in recent and coming years [1], creation of a reliability council similar to NERC [2] to develop reliability standards within the railroad industry may be highly beneficial: it could pull together statistical data on reliability from different railroads, analyze them, and develop guidelines and recommendations for optimal solutions to provide adequate reliability with the lowest cost possible. IEEE Traction Power Substation Committee and AREMA Committee 33 on Electrical Energy Utilization could initiate and lay groundwork for the creation of such a council. While most of the contingency situations may be predicted and counteracted on the design stage, only the real-life experience is the ultimate test for reliability. That’s why it is so important to keep and analyze records of any outages and contingencies encountered during traction power system operations. Records for these purposes may be provided by Multi-Purpose Relays [3] that become widely used in recently built substations. Classification of voltage events in future Standard may be based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Standard 1159-1995 “IEEE Recommended Practice for Monitoring Electric Power Quality” [4], classification of reliability events — according to NERC Planning Standards [2].

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