In the era of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Quantum Physics Simulations, data centers play in the world ICT infrastructure a role as big as (sadly) their power consumption. In many cases, a surprising amount of such consumption is due to idle resources, either introduced to face workload peaks or leftovers of workload fragmentation. In this context, proactive workload dispatching has the chanc...

In gynecologic cytology, workload limits are imposed as a surrogate to limit error rates. Whether workload correlates with error rates in surgical pathology and nongynecologic cytology is not known. We reviewed and compared the disagreement and amendment rates based on blinded review for 5 pathologists with the number of cases reviewed during that same period. A total of 2,659 general surgical ...

This study identified contributing risk factors in the occurrence of work-related injuries among university students employed at a single university. Four hundred seventy-six student employees completed the survey in March 2010. The majority of respondents were female (66%) and the average age of all respondents was 20.7 yr. A pre-validated survey instrument was taken from the Youth Employment ...

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) is a complex information system that provides designing, administrating, and improving the business processes. Task allocation to human resources is one of the most important issues which should be managed more efficiently in BPMS. Task allocation algorithms are defined in order to meet the various policies of organizations. The most important of these...

BACKGROUND Medical errors are common in hospitals, and research is always needed to find ways of reducing these. This study attempts to address three gaps in this field. First, the factors leading to the reduction of mental workload and its relationship with the reduction of prescribing errors by improving electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) usability have not been empirically examined befor...

Wikidata, like Wikipedia, is a knowledge base that anyone can edit. This open collaboration model is powerful in that it reduces barriers to participation and allows a large number of people to contribute. However, it exposes the knowledge base to the risk of vandalism and low-quality contributions. In this work, we build on past work detecting vandalism in Wikipedia to detect vandalism in Wiki...

Background. A systematic literature review is a process in which all relevant available research about a research question is identified, evaluated, and interpreted through individual studies. The workload required for this process may bias the evaluation of the studies, affecting the result. Aim. Creating a decision support architecture to assist participants of a systematic review in the sele...