We discuss the phenomenon of system tailoring in the context of data from an observational study of anaesthesia. We found that anaesthetists tailor their monitoring equipment so that the auditory alarms are more informative. However, the occurrence of tailoring by anaesthetists in the operating theatre was infrequent, even though the flexibility to tailor exists on many of the patient monitorin...

London Plan is the London mayor’s Spatial Development Strategy. This strategic long-term plan comprises of proposals for different aspects of change within the London boundary. Furthermore, the proposals include chapters outlining adjustments in each facet. Policy 4A.2 reflects the Climate Change Mitigation scheme. Some consultations and research works have been performed to this point, but an ...

This study reports an intensive, exploratory study of a single, protracted conflictual interaction involving all four members of a family. Within the larger interaction, there were four subinteractions. Because of space limitations, only the central conflictual subinteraction will be described. This interaction involved three of the four family members: the father and two daughters. The two chi...

We present a prototype of a decision sup­ port system for management of the fungal disease powdery mildew in winter wheat. The prototype is based on an influence di­ agram which is used to determine the op­ timal time and dose of mildew treatments. This involves multiple decision opportunities over time, stochasticity, inaccurate informa­ tion and incomplete knowledge. The paper describes the p...

Second-order calculations may significantly increase a decision maker’s understanding of a decision situation when handling aggregations of imprecise representations, as is the case in decision trees or influence diagrams, while the use of only first-order results gives an incomplete picture. The results apply also to approaches which do not explicitly deal with second-order distributions, inst...

AIM: This study aims to develop a fit model for teacher stress know what factors influence stress. METHODS: research uses descriptive quantitative methods. Subjects in this amounted 500 teachers. The method used is the correlational with path analysis. RESULTS: results of indicate that illness, low salary, workload, bad relationships, abuse victims, emotions and work environment affect stress, ...