Attempted suicide is a risk factor for future suicidal behaviour, but understanding suicidality from the perspective of people who have experienced attempted suicide is limited. The aim of the study was to explore the lived experience of being suicidal and having made a suicide attempt, in order to identify possible implications for health care professionals. Semi-structured individual intervie...

In this paper we present a routing algorithm that uses the depth rst search approach combined with a backtracking technique to route messages on the star graph in the presence of faulty links. The algorithm is distributed and requires no global knowledge of faults. The only knowledge required at a node is the state of its incident links. The routed message carries information about the followed...

Database Administrators (DBAs) relieve on a large set of procedures for incident solving in database. However, in the one hand, they have to work under temporal and financial pressures, and, in the other hand, DBAs are continually readjusting these procedures to manage a multitude of specific situations that differ from the generic situation by some few contextual elements. The exceptions are r...

Simulation and gaming can support decision making through all phases of incident management including prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. A number of gaming and simulation tools have been developed for the purpose but they generally utilize proprietary or unique data interfaces and their own view of partitioning the application and solution space. This creates a large o...

Motivated by the need to study traffic incident management, we consider a Markovian infinite server queue that is subjected to randomly occurring shocks. These shocks affect the service of all servers to deteriorate, i.e., increase the service time of all servers, and might also cause other shocks, thus causing further service deterioration. There are a finite number of service levels, zero cor...

Intrusion detection system (IDS) plays a vital role in defending our cyberspace against attacks. Either misuse-based IDS or anomaly-based IDS, or their combinations, however, can only partially reflect the true system state due to excessive false alerts, low detection rate, and inaccurate incident diagnosis. An automated response component built upon IDS therefore must consider the stale and im...

In our modern society, the impact of large-scale safety and security incidents can be large and diverse. Yet, this societal impact is makeable and controllable to a limited extent. At best, the effect of concrete response actions is that the direct damage is somewhat reduced and that the recovery is accelerated. Proper crisis communication can make the biggest difference with respect to overall...

The present study examined the relation between cognitive response styles (i.e., brooding, reflection, distraction) and cognitive inflexibility in differentially predicting history of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) only, suicide attempt (SA) only, or both (NSSI + SA). College students (N = 352) completed self-report measures of rumination, distraction, and self-harm history, a diagnostic inter...

Blood pressure (BP) values and the phenomenon of tracking were evaluated in a group of 481 schoolchildren over a nine year period starting at age 6 years. BP values were obtained yearly by taking the mean of two measurements at one visit, measurements were taken by only two observers during the study. For both systolic and diastolic BP, correlation coefficients between year 9 and previous measu...

Blood is a complex suspension that demonstrates several non-Newtonian rheological characteristics such as deformation-rate dependency, viscoelasticity and yield stress. In this paper we outline some issues related to the non-Newtonian effects in blood circulation system and present modeling approaches based mostly on the past work in this field.