BACKGROUND Health care workers are exposed to various work-related traumatic incidents and crises, so building emotional resiliency is important. AIMS To examine exposure to work-related crises and resiliency of health care workers in public hospitals in Singapore. METHODS We sent questionnaires to health care workers in seven public hospitals. Participation was voluntary and anonymous. We ...

In this report we present a thorough study of the concept of resiliency in distributed workflow systems. We focus particularly in applying this concept in fields like numerical optimization, where any software or logical error could mean restarting the entire experiment. A theoretical study is presented along with a set of software tools for implementation directions. At the end a resilient alg...

BACKGROUND Disturbed sleep is detrimental to child behavior; however, the precise means by which this association occurs is unclear. Sleep and resilience can theoretically share an underlying neural mechanism and therefore influence one another. However, the role of resilience in the association between sleep and behavior is not known. The associations between sleep, resilience, and problematic...

The currently known constructions of Boolean functions with high nonlinearities, high algebraic degrees and high resiliency orders do not seem to permit achieving sufficiently high algebraic immunities. We introduce a construction of Boolean functions, which builds a new function from three known ones. Assuming that the three functions have some resiliency order, nonlinearity and algebraic degr...

Improving resiliency of airports and seaports can accelerate both humanitarian relief and economic and social recovery in regions struck by natural or manmade disasters. Ports are a critical element of effective disaster response, evacuation, and recovery. They are also essential to social and economic recovery following a disaster, especially on islands dependent on trade and isolated areas su...

We analyze the performance of resilient functions for imperfect input bits. Specifically, we allow more input bits than the resiliency degree of the resilient function to be biased and analyze the output behavior under this new assumption. We develop bounds on the output distribution of resilient functions build from a number of families of linear codes. We develop an explicit formula for the p...

This paper explores the use of risk management techniques to promote the design of resilient services. Success in achieving any benefit from a new service will be directly affected by the resiliency of the supporting service architecture including technical and non-technical domains. The concept of resiliency in services and enterprises is examined. We present a framework to analyze risks and t...

INTRODUCTION Social support and ego resiliency play a great role in maintaining the physical and mental health of patients with burn injuries. The present study has been designed to compare ego resiliency levels and the degree of social support in patients with a burn injury and their healthy counterparts. METHODS This study was conducted in two teaching hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan from May...