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Forming implementation intentions (i.e., if-then planning) is a powerful self-regulation strategy that enhances goal attainment by facilitating the automatic initiation of goal-directed responses upon encountering critical situations. Yet, little is known about the consequences of forming implementation intentions for goal attainment in situations that were not specified in the if-then plan. In three experiments, we assessed goal attainment in terms of speed and accuracy in an object classification task, focusing on situations that were similar or dissimilar to critical situations and required planned or different responses. The results of Experiments 1 and 3 provide evidence for a facilitation of planned responses in critical and in sufficiently similar situations, enhancing goal attainment when the planned response was required and impairing it otherwise. In Experiment 3, additional unfavorable effects however emerged in situations that were dissimilar to the critical one but required the planned response as well. We discuss theoretical implications as well as potential benefits and pitfalls emerging from these non-planned effects of forming implementation intentions.

Compassion is a basic approach to medical practice and is the core component of health care. The purpose of the present study was to explore nurses' perceptions of compassion-based care (CBC) for COVID-19 patients. In this qualitative study, the participants were selected using purposeful sampling. Individual and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 nurses, and conventional content analysis was used to categorize the data. In the care of COVID-19 patients, CBC consisted of three categories including pro-social behaviors, paying attention to the beliefs and values ​​of patients, and concern for family members. The first category had three subcategories including empathy, altruism, and helping in critical situations. The second category included the subcategories of the spiritual approach to care and respect for cultural aspects. The third category, concern for family members, had one subcategory: the need to consider the patient's family. Our findings may help to develop a comprehensive model in COVID-19 care according to which, in addition to routine patient care, nurses will consider concepts such as empathy, altruism, helping in critical situations, spirituality, cultural values, ​​and the family’s needs at the end of the patient's life.  

The electrical generation and transmission infrastructures of many countries are under increased pressure. This partially reflects the move towards low carbon economies and the increased reliance on renewable power generation systems. There has been a reduction in the use of traditional fossil fuel generation systems, which provide a stable base load, and this has been replaced with more unpredictable renewable generation. As a consequence, the available load on the grid is becoming more unstable. To cope with this variability, the UK National Grid has placed emphasis on the investigation of various technical mechanisms (e.g. implementation of smart grids, energy storage technologies, auxiliary power sources, Demand Side Response (DSR)), which may be able to prevent critical situations, when the grid may become sometimes unstable. The successful implementation of these mechanisms may require large numbers of electrical consumers (e.g. HVAC systems, food refrigeration systems) for example to make additional investments in energy storage technologies (i.e. food refrigeration systems) or to integrate their electrical demand from industrial processes into the National Grid (i.e. HVAC systems). However, for food refrigeration systems, during these critical situations, even if the thermal inertia within refrigeration systems may maintain effective performance of the device for a short period of time (e.g. under 1 minute) when the electrical input load into the system is reduced, this still carries the paramount risk of food safety even for very short periods of time (e.g. 1 under minute). Therefore before considering any future actions (e.g. investing in energy storage technologies) to prevent the critical situations when grid becomes unstable, it is also needed to understand during the normal use how the temperature profiles evolve along the time inside these massive networks of food refrigeration systems during either shorter (i.e. minutes) or longer periods of time (i.e. days, months) and this paper presents this.

In emergency situations, different actors involved in first aid services should be authorized to retrieve information from the patient’s Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The research objectives of this work involve the development and implementation of methods to characterise emergency situations requiring extraordinary access to healthcare data. The aim is to implement such methods based on contextual information pertaining to specific patients and emergency situations and also leveraging personalisation aspects which enable the efficient access control on sensitive data during emergencies. The Attribute Based Access Control paradigm is used in order to grant access to EHRs based on contextual information. We introduce an ABAC approach using personalized context handlers, in which raw contextual information can be uplifted in order to recognize critical situations and grant access to healthcare data. Results indicate that context-aware ABAC is a very effective method for detecting critical situations that require emergency access to personal health records. In comparison to RBAC implementations of emergency access control to EHRs, the proposed ABAC implementation leverages contextual information pertaining to the specific patient and emergency situations. Contextual information increases the capability of ABAC to recognize critical situations and grant access to healthcare data.

Моделирование неоднородных потоков событий, обрабатываемых в автоматизированной системе управлениях, позволяет оценить её потенциальные возможности, дать количественную оценку вероятности возникновения критических ситуаций, в которых невозможно организовать автоматизированное управление. Неоднородность потоков событий рассматривается в трёх аспектах. Во-первых, для обработки событий различных типов операторам автоматизированной системы требуется разное количество ресурсов, прежде всего временных. Во-вторых, потоки событий существенным образом различаются по интенсивности, а выборка значений интенсивностей разных типов событий является негауссовой. В-третьих, между потоками событий наблюдается сложный, трудно формализуемый механизм взаимовлияния. Для комплексного учёта данных аспектов рассматривается модель неоднородных по типам потоков событий, построенная на игре в размещение ранговых автоматов. Предложены два правила разрешения спорных стратегий в игре в размещение: приоритета действия первого и максимального соответствия. Modeling heterogeneous streams of events processed in automated control system makes it possible to assess its potential capabilities, to quantify the likelihood of critical situations in which it is impossible to organize automated control. The heterogeneity of streams of events is considered in three aspects. First, for processing events of various types, operators of an automated system require a different amount of resources, primarily temporary. Second, the streams of events differ significantly in intensity, and the sample of intensity values for different types of events is non-Gaussian. Thirdly, a complex, difficult to formalize mechanism of mutual influence is observed between the streams of events. For a comprehensive account of these aspects, a model of events heterogeneous by types is considered, built on the game of placing rank automata. Two rules for resolving controversial strategies in the placement game are proposed: the priority of the action of the first and the maximum match.

The security of any business plays a vital role. All enterprises expect high security because of the increase in robbery. It is challenging to manage security with traditional ways of protection. This paper emphasizes the sensor-based security system to protect against any unwanted entry in the business area. This system is developed using IoT-based sensors, and electronic materials develop the security system. The present scenario ensures protection and security have become inevitably necessary. There is regressive progress in the protection sector as the influence of new technology is hitting its height. It’s well-known as a modern home when there is a current home with minimal human effort. This technology aims to automate industrial area security and partially replace the security individual, enabling us to monitor unsuspecting activities and be warned during critical situations. Since wireless and emerging technology is taking place, an automated intelligent protection system is being introduced.

This article offers an analysis of the biblical stories about two heroines: Jael and Judith who save their people by killing the foreign generals. Both stories narrate critical historical situations, namely Jael’s story in Judges 4–5 dates to the XII–X cc. B.C.E. and reflects the ongoing conflict between the twelve tribes of Israel with their neighbors in the land of Canaan, Judith’s story dates to the II c. B.C.E. and reflects the conflict between the Jews and the Seleucid rulers who oppressed the Jewish populace, forced them to practice Hellenistic rituals and abandon the Jewish law and religious practices. Jael invites Sisera, a commander of the Canaanite army of king Jabin, to her tent, gives him milk to drink, and when the man falls asleep, she kills him with a hammer and а tent peg. Judith, a widow from the town of Bethulia, uses her beauty and charm to kill Holofernes, an Assyrian general. First, she gains his trust. Then, when Holofernes drunken falls asleep, she decapitates him in his tent. These texts explicitly show the collapse of the male power and demonstrate the ability of women to step in to save the people. Both heroines are praised by the narrators for their heroism. It is also demonstrated that Jael’s and Judith’s stories have an aim to teach how one may think out of the box. Due to the lack of male capability to solve the problem or, in other words, to protect the people as it is expected according to the patriarchal norms, social roles are shifted, and perception of masculinity and femininity is reеvaluated. The heroic stories of Jael and Judith represent the idea that women can be subjects of history, violence as а means to protect people is not limited to the male domain, and women can save people in critical situations. The violence performed by the women is perceived as an extraordinary act yet necessary and not deviant in the situation.

AbstractThis chapter develops a model of resilient action in situations where established rules or behavioural routines are either not available or are misleading, thus exposing actors to high means-end ambiguity. The model suggests that an ‘action space’ must be created by stabilizing the action system and expanding options for action. It is based on our qualitative research in the Austrian Military (high degree of publicness) on cases of resilient field action, especially as regards ‘bouncing back’ incidents. We contend that different types of drill combined with the acquisition of background knowledge are essential for organizational resilience, the management of unexpected situations and the explanation of success, leading to controlled reproducibility solutions of typical problems. As such, the model intends to explain exploitation types of learning. However, as an antecedent for installing the action space, we explore so-called the ‘exaptation’ of drilled procedures, pertaining to the transfer of procedures to serve novel requirements, thus located in the exploration domain. This phenomenon leads to properties that contribute to recovery from shock in critical situations, through innovation. In short, the chapter provides novel empirical evidence that applying rules does not lead to resilient action in the case of unknown or unexpected situations. Instead, we show robust evidence that a corrective understanding and reflective use of rules and routines is causally related to the ability to deal with surprise and fostering resilience.

Because the preadolescent's inner world is still undeveloped and insufficiently enriched by the experience of experiencing critical situations that stand in the way of meeting important needs, his activism, aimed at overcoming them, is not stimulated. Therefore, in difficult situations the preadolescent includes the defense mechanisms. When the mechanisms prove to be inefficient, the body instinctively looks for a way out and often finds it in the external environment. Psychoactive substances can be used as external procedures to defend against the psychotraumatic situation and the vulnerability of preadolescents to drug use is directly related to the fact that drugs have become accessible, the consumption being often associated with the pressure exerted by the group of friends.