Failure to communicate openly and accurately to members of the healthcare team can result in medical error. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of nursing characteristics and environmental values on communication in the acute care setting. Nurses (n = 135) on four medical-surgical units in two hospitals completed a survey asking nurses' perceptions of communication, work environ...

and Objective While the Global South still struggles to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the health systems of the Global North are under pressure due to an aging population and life style related diseases. Three years before the deadline at the end of 2015 the world has met some important targets while others remain to be seen. In this mini-symposium two different but related meth...

Trusted routing in VANET is a challenging task due to highly dynamic network topologies and openness of wireless architecture. To provide secure routing among the Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) and to avoid selfish nodes, an Optimized Node Selection Routing Protocol (Trusted-ONSRP) of VANET has been designed based on trusted metrics using a Trusted Computing Algorithm. The results stated tha...

Communication technologies, such as e-mail, instant messaging, discussion forums, blogs, and newsgroups connect people together, forming virtual communities. This concept is not only used for private purposes, but is also attracting attention in professional environments, allowing to consult a large group of experts. Due to the overwhelming size of such communities, various reputation mechanism...

The openness of the Web and the ease to combine linked data from different sources creates new challenges. Systems that consume linked data must evaluate quality and trustworthiness of the data. A common approach for data quality assessment is the analysis of provenance information. For this reason, this paper discusses provenance of data on the Web and proposes a suitable provenance model. Whi...

Communication between vehicles is a very promising technology to reduce fatalities and injuries in road traffic. Vehicles spontaneously form communication networks where they exchange messages to warn surrounding vehicles. Theoretically, this system is open to any communication node that is equipped with the required communication technology. This openness demands appropriate security mechanism...

In recent years, the trustworthiness of the software has become the focus of software quality. The software trustworthiness analysis and measurement has become a hot issue. Because of the great influence of software environment dynamic openness and uncertainty to the trustworthiness of the software, this paper attempts to examine the changes of software running environment, consider the impact ...

The paper explores the factors that affect employees’ attitude and behaviour towards knowledge sharing in Saudi Arabian organisations. A mixed methods approach was used to gather data through a survey and semi-structured interviews. Trust was found to have a negative relationship with knowledge sharing attitude while collaborative climate, management support, openness, and rewards were found to...

Vehicle sensor networks (VSNs) are ushering in a promising future by enabling more intelligent transportation systems and providing a more efficient driving experience. However, because of their inherent openness, VSNs are subject to a large number of potential security threats. Although various authentication schemes have been proposed for addressing security problems, they are not suitable fo...

Twitter is a social media giant famous for the exchange of short, 140-character messages called “tweets”. In the scientific community, the microblogging site is known for openness in sharing its data. It provides a glance into its millions of users and billions of tweets through a “Streaming API” which provides a sample of all tweets matching some parameters preset by the API user. The API serv...