Despite a body of research on teams in other fields relatively little is known about measuring teamwork in healthcare. The aim of this study is to characterize the qualitative dimensions of team performance during cardiac resuscitation that results in good and bad outcomes. We studied each team's adherence to Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocol for ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia...

A 47-year-old woman with breast cancer suffered progressive chest pain and flushing within 5 minutes of her second exposure to paclitaxel. Her symptoms progressed and she became pulseless. Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) was initiated, and after a series of chest compressions the cardiac monitor revealed ventricular fibrillation. With ongoing ACLS she was transferred to the emergency depar...

As the complexity and application scope of agent-based systems increases, the requirements placed on Agent Communication Languages have also increased with it. Currently-available ACLs focus on agent-based systems in the domain of knowledge agents. Therefore, they lack certain facilities required to implement large, complex, and robust information-centric agent systems. These facilities are req...

Current Web technologies use access control lists (ACLs) for enforcing regulations and practices governing businesses today. Having the policy hard-coded into ACLs causes management and security problems which have prevented so far Intranets to achieve their full potential. This paper is about a concrete design of a mechanism that supports policies for regulating access to information via corpo...

In distributed systems, the access control mechanism is often modeled after stand-alone solutions, such as ACLs. Such arrangement, however, is not ideal as the system may be mirrored around the world and maintaining the ACLs becomes a problem. A new approach to this problem is using authorisation certificates to control access to resources. This diminishes management overhead, but introduces pr...