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The Impact of Agile Practices on Trust in Software Project Teams
(IEEE, 2012)
Agile software development involves self-managing teams that are empowered and responsible for meeting project goals in whatever way they deem suitable. Managers must place more trust in such teams than they do in teams ...
Rethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-Secular Age
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011-03-16)
The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the 'clash ...
Evaluation of a Human Factors Analysis and Classification System as Used by Simulated Mishap Boards
(2011)
O'CONNOR P, WALKER P. Evaluation of a Human Factors Analysis and Classification System as used by simulated mishap boards. Aviat Space Environ Med 2011; 82:44-8.Background: The reliability of the Department of Defense Human ...
Coping with stress in military aviation: A review of the research.
(2010)
Military aviation exacts a costly toll in psychological stress from those who choose to pursue the occupation (Stokes & Kite, 1994). A prime example is landing on an aircraft carrier, a task which physiological indices and ...
Identifying and addressing the limitations of safety climate surveys.
(Elsevier, 2011-06)
There are a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools for measuring safety climate. However, questionnaires are by far the most commonly used methodology. This paper reports the descriptive analysis of a large sample ...
Glorified administrators or eminent research leaders: the inhibiting factors that publicly funded principal investigators experience in leading collaborative research projects
(CISC, 2011-07)
Publicly funded research continues to be an important and critical source of research funding for Higher Education Institutions, public research organisations and industry with many benefits accruing to the various ...
The development of a prototype behavioral marker system for U.S Navy Officers of the Deck
(2011)
The Officer of the Deck (OOD) of a U.S Navy ship is in charge of the safe and proper operation of the ship, and accountable to the Commanding Officer for every event that occurs during his or her OOD watch. This paper ...
Evaluation of a human factors analysis and classification system as used by trained raters.
(2010-10)
In this study 22 military officers used DOD-HFACS to classify information obtained from an interview with an individual who had been involved in an aviation incident in which the potential for serious injury had been high.
Addressing human error within the Irish healthcare system.
(Irish Medical Organisation, 2011-02)
Research shows that human error, as opposed to mechanical failure, is the major causal factor of industrial and transportation accidents. The same is true in healthcare. This paper briefly discusses five human error reduction ...
Measuring safety climate in the aviation industry: A review and recommendations for the future.
(Elsevier, 2011)
This paper reviews 23 studies that have examined safety climate within commercial and military aviation. The safety climate factors identified in the aviation safety climate questionnaires were found to be consistent with ...