Tool classification is an important part of the tool qualification process required by ISO 26262 since it determines the required confidence level for each tool in use. To cover the variety of tools used by practitioners, the standard only provides a framework for tool classification and leaves it up to the applicant to instantiate this framework. To illustrate the ISO 26262 tool classification...

We study and characterize axiomatically a class of voting rules, called consent rules, that incorporate aspects of majoritarianism and liberalism. An outcome of the vote specifies who among the voters are eligible to a certain right or qualification. Each outcome serves also as a permissible ballot. Consent rules are parameterized by the weights given to individuals in determining their own qua...

This descriptive and quantitative study aimed to characterize the production of nursing care in primary health care services in a region of the city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The study sample comprised care actions delivered by nurses and registered in the HygiaWeb Information System, from 2006 to 2009. Statistical analysis was performed. Results showed that nursing care de...

AIM To assess the preparation required to ensure a workforce of nurses who can provide high quality out-of-hospital services for children and young people. METHODS Using mixed methods, questionnaires were sent to young people and community children's nursing teams, interviews were conducted with academic staff and clinical nurses, and focus groups were undertaken with pre-registration childre...

During the passage of the Bill through the House of Lords there was weighty discussion on a number of amendments put forward by members, as well as by the Lord Chancellor on behalf of the Government; this included more than one unsuccessful attempt to restore the functions of justice in the procedure for compulsory admission to hospital, even if only so far as psychopaths were concerned. Amendm...

Certification of safety-critical software is a multi-disciplinary topic. Process assessment is an essential part of that, but is not enough for software certification. Certification employs also several other method families, like inspections and reviews, independent V&V, conformance with selected reference standard(s) and use of selected measurements and analyses. Process assessment supports d...