Background and Objectives: Emergency departments often encounter several risk and health issues which significantly impact on overall healthcare performance. Resilience engineering (RE) enables emergency departments to confront sudden changes and handling health risk issues. Patient trust (PT) is also one of the most effective factors which improve quality of care along with pa...

This paper presents a framework for discussions of system resilience. The framework has five aspects: time periods, system types, events, resilience actions, and properties to preserve. The five time periods are well defined, but the other four aspects vary according to author, type of system, and purpose of the discussion, so what is presented is the variation that occurs among definitions. Th...

Assessing and managing the human influence on natural anthropic ecosystems strongly demands for robust measures of their resilience, especially in a world facing global changes as it is Earth now. Many definitions resilience have been proposed order to cover different contexts. However, they are mostly derived either from ecological or engineering which substantially differ between each other. ...

The human unreliability is the main cause of industrial accidents. In the petrochemical field, about 90% of accidents are due to human errors. Over the years, several models of Human Reliability Analysis have been developed. The major limitation of these models is due to their static nature. Thus, the present research aims to propose a new innovative approach to evaluate the variability of the ...

Usability evaluation methods (UEMs) play a central role in usability consultancy practice. Their adoption and adaptation plays an important part in making systems more resilient. There is a knowledge gap in how practitioners adopt and adapt UEMs. Wixon (2003) goes as far as to say that the current literature fails the practitioner. Work reported here builds on qualitative research on usability ...

The current meta-analysis aimed to review the relationship between trait resilience and mental health, and examine some moderating variables such as participant age, gender, and adversity. A total of 60 studies and 111 effect sizes were analyzed. We found that: (1) Trait resilience was negatively correlated to negative indicators of mental health and positively correlated to positive indicators...

Bei der Bewältigung von Krisen und Katastrophen werden zunehmend computerbasierte Werkzeuge eingesetzt. Sie werden dabei Teil komplexer, mit der Gefahrenabwehr und Daseinsvorsorge beauftragter soziotechnischer Gesamtsysteme. Ihre Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit zu erhöhen, Funktionsstörungen oder Leistungsdegradationen unter möglichst vielen Umständen zu verhindern und sie flexibel unter neuen R...

The size of the basin of attraction in ecosystems with alternative stable states is often referred to as "ecological resilience." Ecosystems with a low ecological resilience may easily be tipped into an alternative basin of attraction by a stochastic event. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to measure ecological resilience in practice. Here we show that the rate of recovery from small perturb...