Introducing Goal Structuring Notation to Explain Decisions in Clinical Practice

The Goal Structuring Notation – A Safety Argument Notation

In Europe, over recent years, the responsibility for ensuring system safety has shifted onto the developers and operators to construct and present well reasoned arguments that their systems achieve acceptable levels of safety. These arguments (together with supporting evidence) are typically referred to as a “safety case”. This paper describes the role and purpose of a safety case. Safety argum...

The HEAT/ACT Preliminary Safety Case: A case study in the use of Goal Structuring Notation

The HEAT/ACT project consists of replacing the conventional mechanical flight control system of a helicopter with a fly-by-wire system. With such a project, the safety concerns are obvious, and therefore the development of a thorough and convincing Safety Case is paramount. The project therefore chose to adopt a phased approach to safety case development, beginning with a Preliminary Safety Cas...

Introducing “Evidence for clinical practice”

Combining alternative medicine and conventional medicine approaches into an integral whole is called integrative medicine [1]. Combining the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values into an integral whole is called evidence-based medicine [2]. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is neither alternative medicine nor conventional medicine (though the expectation for evidence-bas...

I-7: Introducing Blastocyst Culture and Transfer into Clinical Practice

Model in Order to Make Effective Decisions in Selecting Advertising Media by Goal Programming(GP)

In recent years according to the growing companies andproducts supplied, and competition between them has intensified. Productsand diversity, one of the main concerns of commercial institutions.Therefore, selecting the media to introduce and is important therelationship between customers’ products. Given the multiplicity of mediain promoting and marketing the products, they are the optimalchoic...