Transitions from one care provider to another put patients at increased risk of injuries and errors. A standardized approach to hand-off communication helps minimize these risks. One recognized approach to addressing this concern is the SBAR (ie, situation, background, assessment, recommendation) communication technique. Reference cards with the SBAR communication approach can be used by all st...

The concept of ‘resilience’ is often absent in accident investigations, most likely because one of the central notions in resilience, ‘requisite imagination’, seems to be of limited utility when used in hindsight. In this paper we argue that requisite imagination is often a mirage, and that its false promise may well be based on treating stability and resilience as one unified concept. It is im...

Many commentators on business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce implicitly assume that such systems are relatively homogeneous. Existing theories of information systems and markets, and the practice of procurement are used in order to explain the nature and dimensions of B2B schemes, and the dimensions across which they differ. This provides a basis for more effective conception of systems to serve ...

Large-scale digital quantum simulations require thousands of fundamental entangling gates to construct the simulated dynamics. Despite success in a variety of small-scale simulations, quantum information processing platforms have hitherto failed to demonstrate the combination of precise control and scalability required to systematically outmatch classical simulators. We analyse how fast gates c...

The optic disk (OD) center and margin are typically requisite landmarks in establishing a frame of reference for classifying retinal and optic nerve pathology. Reliable and efficient OD localization and segmentation are important tasks in automatic eye disease screening. OD Cup is segmented using Gradient method, Adaptive Threshold and Connected Component. They utilize BBB method hang on the Ti...

Process logs are increasingly being represented using XML based templates such as MXML and XES. Popular XML data mining techniques have had limited application to directly mine such data. The majority of work in the process mining field focuses on process discovery and conformance checking tasks often utilizing visualization and simulation based techniques. In this paper, an approach is propose...

In eukaryotes, the multivesicular body (MVB) sorting pathway plays an essential role in regulating cell surface protein composition, thereby impacting numerous cellular functions. Vps4, an ATPase associated with a variety of cellular activities, is required late in the MVB sorting reaction to dissociate the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT), a requisite for proper functio...

Modeling the interaction between persons and items at the item level for binary response data, item response theory (IRT) models have been found useful in a wide variety of applications in various fields. This paper provides the requisite information and description of software that implements the Gibbs sampling procedures for the one-, twoand three-parameter normal ogive models. The software d...

The purpose of this paper is primarily theoretical – to propose and detail a model for system evolution, and show its derivation from the fields of enterprise architecture (EA), cybernetics and systems theory. Cybernetic thinking is used to develop the co-evolution path model (CePM) to explain how enterprises co-evolve with their environments. The model re-interprets Ashby’s law of requisite va...