Liability for System and Data Quality

2005 ◽  
pp. 1834-1837
Author(s):  
Robert D. Sprague
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Software Testing ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Reliable Operation ◽  
Department Of Commerce ◽  
Error Avoidance ◽  
Underlying Risk ◽  
The U.S

Accompanying the proliferation of computers in almost every facet of life is an underlying risk to financial well-being related to computer system and data quality. The viability of a business often depends upon the continual and reliable operation of its computer system. The consequences of low-quality computer hardware and software are not infrequent or insubstantial. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Commerce states that total U.S. software sales in 2000 were approximately $180 billion (RTI, 2002). The report estimated that the lack of an adequate software testing infrastructure costs U.S. software users over $38 billion per year, principally through error avoidance and mitigation activities.

Liability for System and Data Quality

2004 ◽  
pp. 183-203
Author(s):  
Robert D. Sprague
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Legal Liability ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Contractual Relationship ◽  
Inaccurate Data ◽  
Legal Remedies

This chapter discusses various theories of legal liability related to computer system and data quality. Contract-based theories are discussed in detail, as most computer systems are acquired and data are accessed through some form of contractual relationship. Additional tort-based theories of liability are also discussed, particularly relating to publication of inaccurate data. As presented in this chapter, purchasers of defective computer hardware or software and users of inaccurate data have very limited legal remedies available. Further, the legal remedies that may be available are typically severely restricted by the contract through which the computer system is acquired or the data are accessed.

scholarly journals Historical Racist Violence and Intergenerational Harms: Accounts from Descendants of Lynching Victims

2021 ◽  
Vol 694 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Shytierra Gaston
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Violent Event ◽  
History Of ◽  
Racialized Violence ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The U.S

African Americans are disproportionately victimized by various forms of racialized violence. This long-standing reality is rooted in America’s history of racist violence, one manifestation being racial lynchings. This article investigates the long-term, intergenerational consequences of racial lynchings by centering the voices and experiences of victims’ families. The data comprise in-depth interviews with twenty-two descendants of twenty-two victims lynched between 1883 and 1972 in the U.S. South. I employed a multistage qualitative analysis, revealing three main domains of harmful impacts: psychological, familial, and economic. The findings underscore that racist violence has imposed harm beyond victims and for many decades and generations after the violent event. These long-term, intergenerational harms, especially if multiplied across countless incidents, can fundamentally impact the well-being of individuals, families, and communities as well as contribute to structural and macrolevel forces. Findings from this study have implications for research, policy, and practice, including efforts toward redress and reparations.

scholarly journals Did We Lose the War on Poverty?

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale W Jorgenson
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Accurate Assessment ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Economic Well Being

Official U.S. poverty statistics based on household income imply that the proportion of the U.S. population below the poverty level reached a minimum in 1973, giving rise to the widespread impression that the elimination of poverty is impossible. By contrast, poverty estimates based on household consumption have fallen through 1989 and imply that the war on poverty was a success. This paper recommends replacing income by consumption in official estimates of poverty in order to obtain a more accurate assessment of the impact of income support programs and economic growth on the level and distribution of economic well-being among households.

Core self-evaluations and subjective well-being in the U.S. and the Philippines: The moderating role of self-construal

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Rosopa ◽  
Jesus Alfonso D. Datu ◽  
Stephen A. Robertson ◽  
Theresa P. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Core Self ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
The U.S

Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s

1992 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Higgs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Command Economy ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

Relying on standard measures of macroeconomic performance, historians and economists believe that “war prosperity” prevailed in the United States during World War II. This belief is ill-founded, because it does not recognize that the United States had a command economy during the war. From 1942 to 1946 some macroeconomic performance measures are statistically inaccurate; others are conceptually inappropriate. A better grounded interpretation is that during the war the economy was a huge arsenal in which the well-being of consumers deteriorated. After the war genuine prosperity returned for the first time since 1929.

scholarly journals INFORMAL VOLUNTEERING AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING DURING LATER LIFE IN THE U.S

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 458-458
Author(s):  
T Yamashita ◽  
D Carr ◽  
J Keene
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Informal Volunteering ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Computer Hardware Components Ontology

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Kamel AL Hwaitat ◽  
Ameen Shaheen ◽  
Khalid Adhim ◽  
Enad N. Arkebat ◽  
Aezz Aldain AL Hwiatat
Keyword(s):  
Computer System ◽  
Description Logic ◽  
Computer Hardware

A computer system consists of Hardware components that integrate with each other .The purpose of this paper is to create the hardware components of a computer system by formalizing a number of concepts that represent the knowledge of this dolman. Description logic anddefensible logic are used in this paper to achieve our goal.

50th Anniversary of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 639-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Harper ◽  
Louis W. Uccellini ◽  
Eugenia Kalnay ◽  
Kenneth Carey ◽  
Lauren Morone
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Numerical Weather Prediction ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Numerical Weather ◽  
American Meteorological Society ◽  
College Park ◽  
The U.S

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), National Weather Association, and American Meteorological Society (AMS) cosponsored a “Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction,” on 14–17 June 2004 at the University of Maryland, College Park in College Park, Maryland. Operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the United States started with the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit (JNWPU) on 1 July 1954, staffed by members of the U.S. Weather Bureau, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. The origins of NCEP, AFWA, and FNMOC can all be traced to the JNWPU. The symposium celebrated the pioneering developments in NWP and the remarkable improvements in forecast skill and support of the nation's economy, well being, and national defense achieved over the last 50 years. This essay was inspired by the presentations from that symposium.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document