Background: Internationally, patient safety is increasingly seen as a priority area, and improving patient safety highly depends on achieving a culture that supports and encourages health care staffs to report their errors or near misses without fear of punishment. In Ethiopia, however, patient safety culture is a relatively new focus, and little is known regarding the current status of patient...

Network-centric military operations are redefining information overload as military commanders and staffs are inundated with vast amounts of information. Recent research has developed a fuzzy-based system to assign a Value of Information (VoI) determination for individual pieces of information. This paper presents an investigation on the effect of using triangular and trapezoidal fuzzy membersh...

Methods: The study took place in Tehran and Esfahan oil refineries in Iran in 2010. An initial questionnaire was formed from two previous studies. This tool was translated to Persian based on back translation. The 61-item questionnaire was tested on operational staffs (N=324). Principle component analysis and Varimax with Kaiser Normalization was used to extract factors, in statistical software...

Mark Jamison is Director of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC), Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. Before joining PURC in 1996, he was Manager of Regulatory Policy at Sprint. Prior to joining Sprint, he worked nine years for state regulatory commission staffs at the Iowa Utilities Board and the Kansas Corporation Commission. He earned his PhD at the University of Flor...

The U.S. Army’s Force XXI initiative provides automated C4I systems to commanders and their staffs at the brigade through corps echelons to increase situational awareness and support improved command and control decision making. These systems provide extensive automation support, including local area networks for data communications within command post structures and wide area communications li...

This report addresses the challenges encountered and, to a certain extent, overcome, while health risk assessment and management were being conducted in Mae Sot, Thailand following cadmium contamination to rice, the main diet of Thais. In November 2003, Department of Agriculture (DOA), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) sent a summary report of a 6-year study revealing serious contamination of cadmi...

Application development staffs that build and maintain mainframe application programs to manage business systems have a variety of specialized skills. An integrated development environment, like CA Ideal for CA Datacom, is needed to share storage of batch and online program logic providing version control, an integrated Data Dictionary and the ability to insulate the programmer from transaction...

The authors would like to acknowledge the “Competitive Research Grants (CRG) Program”, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for directly funding this research. also appreciate all assistance provided by KAUST engine laboratory staffs in support investigations.