Building on the work of the EDEMOI methodology, this paper proposes a twofold expansion of this methodology consisting in: (1) broadening its scope to include aviation safety legislations and (2) extending its usability to detect regression originating from regulatory amendments. Accordingly, this paper analyses the differences between safety and security legislations in civil aviation, develop...

Objectives-To compare the perceptions ofphysician executives and clinicians regarding ethical issues in Saudi Arabian hospitals and the attributes that might lead to the existence of these ethical issues. Design-Self-completion questionnaire administered from February to July 1997. Setting-Different health regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Participants-Random sample of 457 physicians (317...

Although various government and regulatory organisations have identified practices that may enhance patient safety, there is little empirical or theoretical research to inform the decisions of healthcare leaders seeking to create patient safety programmes within their hospitals and clinics. In order to understand the challenges facing hospital and health system executives, we describe the exper...

This paper summarizes the most important seven factors about competency of executives based on the performance appraisal historical data of a Beijing Science and Technology Company. Combine the scores given by the experts with the results of the integration assessment of the grey system, we can get the target-value of the input samples of BP (Back Propagation) neural network, then use it to tra...

In gearing up the task of e-Government, the governments of the various economies are investing heavily in Information Technology (IT). The success of e-Government program therefore depends upon the IT literacy and skills of the senior government executives, especially in the use of the Internet. This study focuses on one hundred senior government executives of the ten different ministries of Br...

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This study assessed the main, curvilinear, interactive and gender-dependent effects of job demands, job control and social support in the prediction of sleep quality. Participants were 348 male and 76 female executives and managers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A multiple regression controlling for age, occupational hierarchy and various health behaviors was computed. On the level of t...