The State is not always able to proactively improve environmental policies. Eventually, policy improvements are a result of disasters that expose pre-existing problems. This situation reflected in the state Minas Gerais (Brazil), where, after failures Fundão and B1 tailings dam, Mariana Brumadinho, several problems dam safety emergency policies were exposed. study had twofold objective: 1) iden...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent which Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory (Demerouti et al. , 2001; Bakker and Demerouti, 2017) an appropriate conceptual framework for understanding physical environment work. Design/methodology/approach A analysis multidisciplinary workplace literature was performed assess core propositions JD-R as they relate environment. Findings co...

Abstract Industrial Control Systems are used in a wide variety of industrial facilities, including critical infrastructures, becoming the main target multiple security attacks. A malicious and successful attack against these infrastructures could cause serious economic environmental consequences, loss human lives. Static networks configurations topologies, which characterize Systems, represent ...

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are typically monitored via targeted mass spectrometry, which potentially identifies only a fraction of the contaminants actually present in environmental samples. With new anthropogenic compounds continuously introduced to the environment, novel and proactive approaches that provide a comprehensive alternative to targeted methods are needed in order to more...

While most research on stopping action examines how an initiated response is stopped when a signal occurs (i.e., reactively), everyday life also calls for a mechanism to prepare to stop a particular response tendency (i.e., proactively and selectively). We hypothesized that human subjects can prepare to stop a particular response by proactively suppressing that response representation in the br...

The authors describe HFMEA, a five-step process used to proactively evaluate a health care process, and provide examples of a team's forms and actions regarding prostate-specific antigen testing.

Recommender techniques are commonly used to ease the selection and support the decision in the context of large quantities of items such as products, media or restaurants. Typically, recommender systems are used in contexts where users focus their full attention to the system. This is not the case in automotive scenarios, therefore we want to provide recommendations proactively to reduce driver...