The authors review the literature on resilience following childhood maltreatment and describe how variation in the measurement of outcomes at various developmental stages affects research findings, practice implications, and policy recommendations. Although the 21 studies reviewed considered competent functioning in similar domains as evidence of resilience following maltreatment, few provided ...

A traffic encounter between individual road users is a process of continuous interplay over time and space and may be seen as an elementary event with the potential to develop into an accident. This paper proposes a framework for organising all traffic encounters into a severity hierarchy based on some operational severity measure. A severity hierarchy provides a description of the safety situa...

OBJECTIVE to identify the prevalence of nursing diagnosis Sedentary lifestyle (SL) and to analyze its association with clinical indicators (CI) and related factors (RF) in patients with hypertension. METHOD cross-sectional study with 285 patients with hypertension at a reference center for outpatient care in Northeastern Brazil. To collect data it was used an instrument based on operational d...

Free-floating carsharing is a young and rapidly expanding market that allows customers to end their rentals anywhere within the business area of the provider. Through this flexibility it complements public transportation and reduces the environmental footprint of the transportation sector. We present a novel data analytics methodology that supports companies – from local start-ups to global pla...

An important question with respect to the Deepwater Horizon accident is whether the accident is a symptom of systemic safety problems in the deepwater drilling industry. An answer to such a question is hard to obtain unless the risk level related to major accident prevention, preparedness, and responses of the oil and gas industry is measured and evaluated over time. In this paper, we present i...

since the analysis of complex services systems by using mathematical modeling techniques, with considering the random patterns prevailing in them, is so difficult or probably impossible, improvement guidelines are often followed based on the experts' experiences using qualitative methods. in the present paper, by employing a discrete event computer simulation methodology, criminal trial sy...

This paper describes an approach to integrate the Activity Based Costing (ABC) technique within the framework of GRAI Integrated Methodology (GIM) in order to assist business process reengineering justi"cation and evaluation. The "rst step of integration is to have ABC adopt cost pools and lists of activities derived from GIM process modeling. Further on ABC is involved in two stages of the met...