Is inexperience a defence against negligence?

Involuntary automaticity: a potential legal defence against an allegation of clinical negligence?

BACKGROUND It has been argued that the safety of patients can be put at risk because the verbal challenge--response protocols, frequently used by healthcare professionals--can be compromised by the system of work in use and the operational environment. Individuals who constantly undertake verbal double-checking safety protocols, when subjected to adverse operational conditions such as high work...

Medical Negligence – is There a Defined Pattern?

ALEXANDRA LOSTUN1, ARTHUR KERESZTESI1, RAZVAN HAINAROSIE2,3*, GABRIEL LOSTUN4 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Forensic Medicine,38 Gheorghe Marinescu Str., 540142, Tirgu Mures, Romania 2 Prof. Dr. D. Hociota Institute of Phonoaudiology and Functional ENT Surgery, 21 Mihail Cioranu Str., 050751, Bucharest, Romania 3 Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Eroii S...

Is Negligence a First Cousin to Intentionality? Lay Conceptions of Negligence and Its Relationship to Intentionality

A social-network defence against whitewashing

We provide a defence against whitewashing for trust assessment mechanisms (TAM) by using an underlying social network in MAS and P2P. Since interaction requests are routed through the social network, routers can block requests from portions of the network known for whitewashing. Furthermore, by limiting feedback spread to the interaction routers, the trust assessment can be done without queryin...

Cooperation in defence against a predator.

The origin and the evolutionary stability of cooperation between unrelated individuals is one of the key problems of evolutionary biology. In this paper, a cooperative defence game against a predator is introduced which is based on Hamilton's selfish herd theory and Eshel's survival game models. Cooperation is altruistic in the sense that the individual, which is not the target of the predator,...