Definition of human factors
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That threat includes human factors like maintaining control over voter data.
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Killer storms like Irma and Maria have been blamed on global warming, a trend likely accelerated, if not caused, by human factors.
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There are certainly human factors to be figured out.
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Read related: John Shutko, Ford’s human factors technical specialist, explained the reasoning.
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Recently, elk have been vanishing throughout the United States—a trend thought to be driven by human factors like fishing, bear and wolf management, and climate change.
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1946
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