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... INTERIM REPORT 11 of optimal technology and (2) the engineering development and qualification of the hardware, software, and operational procedures required to realize the systems performance of the selected technology.
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... 12 PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING NASA'S BCPR Risk Identification NASA's decision to rely on expert opinion in identifying and ranking risks is a reasonable strategy, given the broad array of topics addressed in the BCPR. Expert opinion in health care and the life sciences is influenced both by systematically derived data and by heuristics, or "rules of thumb," that are derived from personal and group experience.
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... INTERIM REPORT 13 very small sample size makes it impossible to state findings within reasonable confidence intervals, or to compare alternatives using tests of statistical significance. The committee recognizes that health-related studies based on observations of space mission crews will, for the foreseeable future, suffer from small sample size, and consequently inferences based on single missions will have inadequate statistical power.
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... 14 PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING NASA'S BCPR Understanding the Interactions Among Risks The committee notes with approval that NASA has identified five cross-cutting risk areas (human health and countermeasures, radiation health, behavioral health and performance, autonomous medical care, and advanced human life-support technologies) and suggests that these crosscutting areas deserve further attention.
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... INTERIM REPORT 15 immune system function, and other risk areas identified in the BCPR. Attention to the complexities of human behavior and performance issues would strengthen the BCPR.
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