Lowest Urgency Research Articles

Analysis of Needs with the PIECES Concept: How Urgency is the Involvement of Ethical Hackers in Accounting Information Systems?

This study aims to identify the needs analysis of a company in involving ethical hackers to achieve the desired goals. This research focuses on accounting information systems which are vital systems in business processes. The company's goals will be translated into a need analysis using the PIECES framework (Performance, Information, Economy, Control, Efficiency, and Service). The research method used is a quantitative descriptive method and uses documentation techniques in collecting data. This study uses secondary data in the form of a literature review of 80 journal articles published in 2018-2023. Only ISSN indexed journals are used as data sources to ensure the quality of research output remains relevant. The results of this study are that the information aspect holds the highest urgency at 31.25% and the control aspect ranks second with a score of 25.00%. While the aspect with the lowest urgency is the economic aspect with an achievement of only 6.25%. Comparison of the scope of research and how researchers explore in more detail in linking opportunity costs can be input for further research. Furthermore, future research can also link several concepts such as urgency needs analysis with the PIECES framework, opportunity costs, and user trust in ethical hackers. So that the results of the research conducted will be more interesting and can be a reference for companies in making policies.

Surveying the sense of urgency of the tactical-level management to adopt Industry 4.0 technologies: Ranking of three sister plants based on BWM-CRITIC-TOPSIS

Purpose: Although the decision to adopt Industry 4.0 is commonly strategical, the selection and implementation of technology are the responsibilities of the tactical level management. The tactical level management will also directly experience the impact of adopting the technology towards the organizational performances in their functional areas. The comparative survey study aims to measure the tactical level management’s sense of urgency of the nine pillars in three plants of a single manufacturing organization.Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology starts with a literature review to collect the criteria appertaining to the pillars. Based on the 95 constituting criteria, the second step prepares and conducts a questionnaire survey with 32 participants on three sister plants. Next, rough BWM-CRITIC-TOPSIS ranks these plants at the pillar and criteria levels. The ranking method integrates Best-Worst Method (BWM), Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC), and technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The top management discussed and rendered insights into the results.Findings: Results show that the high-mix and labor-intensive plant (Plant 1) has the highest urgency, whereas the largely automated plant (Plant 3) has the lowest urgency to adopt the nine pillars. The findings provide empirical evidence of the effect of the recent Industry 4.0 awareness programs in Plant 1 and advanced infrastructure would lead to organization inertia (Plant 3) to aggressively pursue technological change. The most urgent pillar is cybersecurity, and the least urgent pillar is additive manufacturing (AM), outlining the concern over cyber threats when product information is increasingly integrated into the supply chain and technology immaturity of AM in production.Research limitations/implications: A limitation of this study is that the comparative survey only focused on three plants and the tactical level management of an organization.Originality/value: This study contributes to the knowledge of Industry 4.0 readiness by being the first to show different levels in the sense of urgency of the tactical level managements on the relevant technologies, which potentially affect the direction and the pace of Industry 4.0 adoption.

Abstract 12292: Trends and Outcomes of Cardiac Transplantation in the Lowest Urgency Candidates

Introduction: Due to discrepancies between donor supply and recipient demand, the cardiac transplantation process aims to prioritize the most medically urgent patients. It remains unknown how recipients with the lowest medical urgency compare to others in the allocation process. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database. Patients listed for cardiac transplantation between January 2011 to May 2020 were stratified according to status at time of transplantation. Baseline recipient and donor characteristics, waitlist survival, and post-transplantation outcomes were compared between lower urgency listing and higher urgency listing in the years before and after the 2018 allocation system change. Results: Lower urgency patients in the old system were older (58.5 vs. 56 years) and more likely female (54.4% vs. 23.8%) compared to the highest urgency patients, and these trends persisted in the new system for the lowest urgency patients (59 vs. 55 years; 47.0% vs. 23.9% female; p<0.001, all). Donors for the lowest urgency patients were more likely older, female, or have a history of CMV, hepatitis C, or diabetes (p<0.01, all). The lowest urgency patients had longer waitlist times, and under the new allocation system these patients received organs from shorter distances and with decreased ischemic times (178 vs. 269 miles, 3.1 vs 3.5 hours; p<0,001, all). There was no difference in post-transplantation survival (p<0.01, all). Conclusions: Cardiac transplantation for lower urgency patients has not been well characterized. Our analysis demonstrates that, over the last decade, these patients receive hearts from donors with additional comorbidities compared to higher urgency patients but that outcomes are similar at one year. Our results may support the utility of early listing and less stringent thresholds for organ acceptance to increase access to cardiac transplantation.

How to prioritize areas for new ant surveys? Integrating historical data on species occurrence records and habitat loss

Habitat loss is a leading cause of extinctions, which may occur even before species are recorded or formally described. On the other hand, limitations in species distribution data and sampling biases can hamper inferences about patterns of species richness that form the basis of conservation strategies. Insects, despite their crucial roles in terrestrial ecosystems, are still largely neglected when dealing with biological inventories. Among insects, ants are of unique importance because of their species richness, widespread distribution, and due to their key ecosystem functions such as seed dispersal, soil nutrient cycling, predation, and biological control. In this study, we prioritize different Brazilian biomes and ecoregions for new ant surveys based on information on the distribution of occurrence records and two estimates of habitat loss for the period between 2000 and 2016. We compiled nearly 8000 ant occurrence records, including a total of 1170 species. The Caatinga was the biome showing the greatest urgency for new inventories, whereas the Atlantic Forest had the lowest urgency. However, there were considerable differences of priority between ecoregions belonging to each biome, thus underscoring the need to pay special attention to these geographical units and their characteristic associated with ant species. The prioritization of poorly studied sites with an imminent risk of habitat loss can be a valuable starting point for filling knowledge gaps and can help in formulating new strategies of conservation. The dataset provided here may also be useful in studies on the distribution of ant diversity in Brazil.

Undertriage in the Manchester triage system: an assessment of severity and options for improvement

BackgroundThe Manchester Triage System (MTS) determines an inappropriately low level of urgency (undertriage) to a minority of children. The aim of the study was to assess the clinical severity of...