Background & Aims of the Study: Reporting human errors in healthcare agencies is often accompanied by embarrassment and the fear of punishment; such errors can highlight motivation, the lack of attention, and enough education. Thus, there is a tendency to hide them. This study aimed to investigate the barriers and facilitators of reporting medical errors in hospitals. Materials and Methods:...

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The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has set legally binding emissions targets for a basket of six greenhouse gases and timetables for industralised countries. It has also incorporated three international flexibility mechanisms. However, the Articles defining the flexibility mechanisms carry wording that their use must be supplemental to domestic actio...

This descriptive study explores deliberate barriers to user participation on the long-lived discussion site Metafilter.com. Metafilter has been in continuous operation since its founding in 1999, and at the time of this writing has around 12,000 active users. While many newer online sites appear eager to eliminate barriers to participation and recruit as many new members as possible, Metafilter...

Concurrency analysis is a static analysis technique that determines whether two statements or operations in a shared memory program may be executed by different threads concurrently. Concurrency relationships can be derived from the partial ordering among statements imposed by synchronization constructs. Thus, analyzing barrier synchronization is at the core of concurrency analyses for many par...