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Civil nuclear generation plant must maximise it’s operational uptime in order to maintain it’s viability. With aging plant and heavily regulated operating constraints, monitoring is commonplace, but identifying health indicators to pre-empt disruptive faults is challenging owing to the volumes of data involved. Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly deployed in prognostics and health management (PHM) systems in various industrial applications, however, many of these are black box models that provide good performance but little or no insight into how predictions are reached. In nuclear generation, there is significant regulatory oversight and therefore a necessity to explain decisions based on outputs from predictive models. These explanations can then enable stakeholders to trust these outputs, satisfy regulatory bodies and subsequently make more effective operational decisions. How ML model outputs convey explanations to stakeholders is important, so these explanations must be in human (and technical domain related) understandable terms. Consequently, stakeholders can rapidly interpret, then trust predictions better, and will be able to act on them more effectively. The main contributions of this paper are: 1. introduce XAI into the PHM of industrial assets and provide a novel set of algorithms that translate the explanations produced by SHAP to text-based human-interpretable explanations; and 2. consider the context of these explanations as intended for application to prognostics of critical assets in industrial applications. The use of XAI will not only help in understanding how these ML models work, but also describe the most important features contributing to predicted degradation of the nuclear generation asset.

The contemporary scene in Jordanian women’s literature offers an intense intellectual debate that is emerging in a fundamentally new way of thinking about women in a modern globalized world. Theirs is a novel voice of gender politics that calls for progress, emaciation and empowerment of women. They do not seek merely to deconstruct the myth of the superior masculine ego that still continues to shape the socio-political fabric of Jordanian society, but they seek a more globalized perspective to detangle themselves by giving birth to a new consciousness. By lifting the veil off their personal and intimate experiences they give rise to a more global oriented image and join modern feminist writers in their endeavor to expose a world of political, economic and social system built on power rather than on justice. Their writings present a collective voice meant to force public opinion out of polemics about cultural authenticity that insists on subjugating the female body and mind by coercing social taboos created by long outstanding social and political patriarchal based ideologies. They do so by projecting a threatening image of female sexuality and by making the body a site for the intervention and production of discourses about the self and ‘other’. They strive to produce an unveiled body and an unveiled discourse showing that the personal is the political and by taking it one step further to assert that the personal affords a global and universal experience.

Diary of a Child Called Souad was not my first attempt at writing, but it was the only one that survived destruction and burning, which happened to my other childhood diaries. Since I learned how to write I had kept a secret diary, which I burned or destroyed. I was afraid that somebody might find it.