Hospitals are looking to strengthen their safety culture by learning internally from medical errors that occur prevent them happening again. This implies creating an atmosphere of psychological encourages be reported. Only open communication teams can help improve practices. Also, many establishments have implemented no-punishment charters, a policy tolerance errors. However, error become legal...

The protection of public servers presents a challenge due to their high level of exposure. We present a practical approach to protecting public servers based on experience within a defence research and development network. Although our defence-in-depth approach has proven effective in protecting public servers, we believe the protection posture can be further improved. We outline the areas in w...

We examine how environmental attitudes influence subjective well-being in urban China. We find that considering environmental protection important on its own has no effect on subjective wellbeing; however, those who consider environmental protection important and have a higher sense of collectivism or concern for others have a lower level of subjective well-being. We interpret this result as in...

The challenge of designing robust electronic circuitry often results in a design with a multitude of discrete protection components with associated cost, design time, and space additions. This article discusses fault protected switch architecture, along with the performance benefits and other advantages it offers vs. traditional discrete protection solutions. A new novel switch architecture and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how causal ambiguity around technological competencies can help firms to achieve superior performance. Design/methodology/approach – Traditionally, it has been recognised that causal ambiguity of technology represents an effective protection against imitation. Recently, however, researchers have unearthed evidence that the effects of causal ambigu...

Legislative Decree March 2003, n. 65 brought about implementation of Directive 1999/45/ EC of the European Parliament and of the Council dated 31 May 1999 and Directive 2001/60/EC of the Commission dated 7 August 2001 concerning laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations come into force. ...

The issue of online privacy and security is a challenging subject, as it concerns the privacy of data that are increasingly more accessible via the internet. In other words, people who intend to access the private information of other users can do so more efficiently over the internet. This study is an attempt to address the privacy issue of distributed big data in the context of cloud computin...