As intelligent software agents are pushed out into the real world and increasingly take over responsibility for important tasks, it becomes important that there are ways of guaranteeing that the agents are safe. But what does “safe” mean in this context. Certainly if the agents are interacting with people then to a certain extent, “safe” will mean that people can trust their model of the agent ...

According to cognitive theories, safety-seeking behaviors are crucial in both the maintenance and management of social anxiety. In order to facilitate assessment of these behaviors the Subtle Avoidance Frequency Examination (SAFE) was developed. Three factors emerged from the SAFE, which appeared to reflect active "safety" behaviors, subtle restriction of behavior, and behaviors aimed at avoidi...

Security wrappers for Windows NT/2000 encapsulate program execution to monitor their run-time behavior and ensure that they don't do anything harmful. Wrappers have be developed to ensure that email attachments can be safely opened, that web content can be safely viewed, downloaded, and executed, and that active content in office documents can be safely executed. The wrappers can be directed to...

BACKGROUND Despite the vast literature examining disparities in medical care, little is known about racial/ethnic and mental health disparities in sexual health care. The objective of this study was to assess disparities in safe sex counseling and resultant behavior among a patient population at risk of negative sexual health outcomes. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis among a s...

background : due to specific conditions in hospitals such as accumulation, existence of disable persons and patients, different and complex equipment, chemical and infectious substances, flammable materials and ionized radiations, safety precautions is essential to prevent the occurrence of incidents such as fire, electric shock hazard and exposure to excessive levels in hospitals. this was the...

objective: to clarify the principles of a safe delivery based on clinical governance criteria, as recommended by the pertinent experts. materials and methods: the current study was part of a qualitative research conducted by content analysis method in 2013 and purposive sampling, performing 24 in-depth interviews based on semi-structured questions and analyzed using thematic content analysis. t...

Dinev and Hu 2007 332 IS professionals and students USA Survey Theory of Planned Behavior Intention to use protective information technologies Furnell et al. 2007 415 UK residents UK Survey NA Safe behavior, knowledge-seeking behavior Lee and Kozar 2005 212 Internet Users USA Survey Theory of Planned Behavior, IT Innovation Adoption of an anti-spyware system Liang and Xue 2009 NA NA Theory buil...