Risk management for software projects is intended to minimize the chances of unexpected events, or more specifically to keep all possible outcomes under tight management control with making judgments about how risk events are to be treated, valued, compared and combined. It is necessary to have some well-founded infrastructure for the identification of software security risks as well as the app...

Monte Carlo simulation has been used extensively for addressing probabilistic uncertainty in range estimating for construction projects. However, subjective and linguistically expressed information results in added non-probabilistic uncertainty in construction management. Fuzzy logic has been used successfully for representing such uncertainties in construction projects. In practice, an approac...

INTRODUCTION With the proliferation of Internet access and the shift to performing some brick-and-mortar transactions online, the need for stability and reliability in the E-commerce arena is becoming increasingly apparent. E*Trade, one of the many successful E-commerce sites, depends completely upon its online presence to stay in business. An outage, regardless of cause, can potentially cost m...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study are to explore the effects of the new 1996 guidance requiring explicit demonstration of competencies on the nature of successful MFPHM Part II reports, how successful candidates claimed competency areas in their two reports and the effects of the subject areas of the report on the specific competencies claimed. METHODS The abstracts of candidates who pa...

P165 Table 1 Competent (%) Not competent, training available (%) Not competent, training not available (%) Emergency contraception counselling 100 0 0 Referring to support organisations 90 10 0 Prescribing STI/HIV/Hep B prophylaxis 90 10 0 SV history taking and risk assessment in u-18s 89 4 7 Forensic exam counselling/ documenting injuries 64 29 7 Documenting history/exam for medico-legal repor...