Towards an extensive set of criteria for safety and cyber-security evaluation of cyber-physical systems.

Verification and validation (V&V) are complex processes combining different approaches and incorporating many different methods including many activities. System engineers regularly face the question if their V&V activities lead to better products, and having appropriate criteria at hand for evaluation of safety and cybersecurity of the systems would help to answer such a question. Additionally, when there is a demand to improve the quality of an already managed V&V process, there is a struggle over what criteria to use in order to measure the improvement.

Formal Modelling and Runtime Verification of Autonomous Grasping for Active Debris Removal.

Active debris removal in space has become a necessary activity to maintain and facilitate orbital operations. Current approaches tend to adopt autonomous robotic systems which are often furnished with a robotic arm to safely capture debris by identifying a suitable grasping point. These systems are controlled by mission-critical software, where a software failure can lead to mission failure which is difficult to recover from since the robotic systems are not easily accessible to humans.

A replication study of priorities and attitudes of two nursing programs' communities of interest: an appreciative inquiry.

American universities and nursing faculties, caught between the imperatives of community demand and university financial constraints, need to analyze their communities of interests' shared priorities for nursing education. This replication study's objective was to compare the priorities and attitudes of two nursing programs' communities of interest using appreciative inquiry (AI). The researchers used AI to conduct a qualitative, comparative analysis of data from two nursing programs.

Evaluating the chief nurse executive: reflections on the process.

Performance improvement of chief nurse executives (CNEs) is an integral part of a healthcare organization's program of continuous improvement. However, the process of evaluating CNEs is an increasingly complex and costly one. This is, in part, because the formal evaluation process for a CNE of a stand-alone hospital building is considerably different from that of a CNE in an integrated health-care system of hundreds or several thousand nursing personnel.

Exploring and developing a college's community of interest: an appreciative inquiry.

This study examined what the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education identifies as a college of nursing's internal and external "community of interest." Using "appreciative inquiry" in this study of a college campus, we examined the parts of the historical past that the community believed should be maintained, its vision of excellence for the college, the ways in which the vision could be realized, and its part in fulfilling the expectations of a shared, co-created vision. Investigators collected data using a self-developed, one-on-one interview and focus-group format and analyzed the data using content analysis.