This paper presents a behavioral model library of analogue and mixed circuits used in the radio-frequency domain. The models are described in VHDL-AMS and are carefully documented and validated, in order to be easily used by designers or model developers. These models allows to explore systems architecture easily and rapidly.

Healthcare providers have the potential to play a crucial role in human trafficking prevention, identification, and intervention. However, trafficked patients are often unidentified due to lack of education and preparation available to healthcare professionals at all levels of training and practice. To increase victim identification in healthcare settings, providers need to be educated about th...

Introduction Unsafe behaviours are said to both directly and indirectly contribute to 90% of all workplace accidents and incidents (Holnagel, 1993). Given the importance of behavioural patterns in the accident process it is not surprising that safety improvements focused on individual behaviours have acquired popularity in the development of safety performance (Cooper et al. 1994; Cox and Cox, ...

Innovation and social information use are influenced by individual characteristics, and are important for the creation and transmission of novel behavioral patterns. Here, we investigated which individual factors predict innovation rates and social transmission of information in a comparative study with identically reared common ravens (Corvus corax) and carrion crows (Corvus corone corone; Cor...

The paradigm of bounded rationality considers the limited ability of individuals to make consistent and rational choices. Due to the scarcity of research on this phenomenon in information systems, we conducted an experimental study investigating decision-making regarding risk preferences and social preferences. Moreover, we explored the stability of these preferences under different conditions ...

This paper explores a semiotic perspective to information systems engineering, using organisational modelling techniques rooted in organisational semiotics. The components and relationships of large corporations are highly complex, volatile and unstructured. Semiotic modelling techniques are therefore introduced to address these challenges posed by large enterprises. MEASUR, a suite of methods ...

The thinking launched since the creation of “Catalyse” tools led in 2008 to the necessity of integrating the tools of quantitative, qualitative and spatial analysis in an information system managing the contents from data collection to results publishing according to actor’s use. Within the framework of these information systems so-called TICS “Territorial Intelligence Community Systems” concep...

Sharpe and Hawkins's field systems analysis (or behavioral systems analysis; Ray & Delprato, 1989) uses investigative procedures that yield (a) descriptions in terms of (b) multiple concurrent factors (c) operating in real time. Examination of subsequent articles in this issue will reveal researchers who take description to levels rarely exhibited in behavioral research by (a) identifying, defi...

The idea of architectural and behavioural patterns originating from OO design community is applied to control systems design modeling and verification. A template for specifying modeling patterns is defined and, as an example, the Control Component Pattern (CCP) is proposed. The benefits from parameterization and abstraction encoded into the pattern are shown, allowing to increase the size of m...

introduction: efficient use of information systems in provision of health services is very important for achieving efficiency, effectiveness and service quality. in this study the various aspects of clinical information systems implementation and estimate of one of main users' knowledge about these systems in hospitals was investigated. methods: this study was conducted in two-stages: in the fi...