Social Media Challenges to Peace-making and What Can Be Done About Them

Why diagnostic errors don't get any respect--and what can be done about them.

The first decade of the patient safety movement achieved some real gains, focused as it was on adverse events amenable to systemwide solutions, such as infections associated with health care and medication errors. However, diagnostic errors, although common and often serious, have not received comparable attention. They are challenging to measure and less amenable to systemwide solutions. Furth...

O3: Children are Not Small Adults! What should be done to Better Protect Them?

Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...

Making formal methods work: what is being done and what can be done

Despite the apparent advantages offered by formal methods, industry has been very slow to take on the techniques involved. This paper attributes some of this reticence to a lack of clear guidance on where and how formal methods fit into the software engineering process. The paper distinguishes between formal methods techniques for modelling and reasoning about systems mathematically and a forma...

What can be done to reduce overconsumption?

Overconsumption of natural resources is frequently portrayed as a significant environmental threat. This paper addresses overconsumption from the individual level, discussing the problems associated with identifying overconsumption and identifying general approaches that can he used to reduce consumption. A behavioral approach to understanding resource consumption is presented, with the existin...

Violence to women--what can be done?