Academic Articles & Research Papers

Rethinking avian influenza control: a systems-oriented One Health perspective for family poultry

Early detection and control of high- and low-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI, LPAI) in family poultry flocks remain challenging in settings where mortality from enzootic diseases such as Newcastle disease (ND) and infectious bursal dise...

WATER-RISK MANAGEMENT IN TCHOGHA ZANBIL WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN IRAN, WITH A FOCUS ON THE ANCIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Water-risk management is one of the most challenging issues in the conservation of earthen sites, because of the inherent weakness of earth to moisture, and also the severe damage after rainfall as a result of a combination of many factors ...

Associated Factors of Pre-Anesthesia Blood Pressure Elevation in Elective Non-Cardiac Surgical Patients: A Case-Control Study Comparing Two Diagnostic Thresholds

Xiao-Min Li,1 Yan Yang,1 Hao Pan,2 Wang Li,2 Ge-Yi Ai,2 Xi-Jiang Liu,2 Guang-Fen Zhang,2 Jie Guo31Department of Anesthesiology, Zibo Central Hospital, Zibo, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Provincial Hosp...

Quantum computing for financial risk measurement

Abstract Quantum computing allows a significant speed-up over traditional CPU- and GPU-based algorithms when applied to particular mathematical challenges such as optimisation and simulation. Despite promising advances and extensive researc...

Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

The field of cybersecurity and cybercrime is a critical and rapidly evolving area of study. As our society becomes more and more reliant on technology, the risks of cybercrime increase. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the...

Cybersecurity

Laboratory digitization can dramatically improve automation, quality control, and data analysis, reduce human error, and ensure process reproducibility. However, cybersecurity threats can compromise sensitive data and disrupt laboratory ope...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity focuses on the threat prevention and risk management of digital data, as well as the protection of associated physical hardware and infrastructure. Cybersecurity is more a question of trusted partnerships, where everyone, from...

Cybersecurity

The beginning of this chapter briefly presents a few examples of scams and hacks that we have all experienced. The AT&T example is taken from a letter the author received explaining that some personal data was illegally obtained and how alo...

Botching Human Factors in Cybersecurity in Business Organizations

Abstract Human factors remained unexplored and underappreciated in information security. The mounting cyber-attacks, data breaches, and ransomware attacks are a result of human-enabled errors, in fact, 95% of all cyber incidents are human-e...

Cybersecurity

"This book is the first of its kind to introduce the integration of ethics, laws, risks, and policies in cyberspace. The book will advance understanding of the ethical and legal aspects of cyberspace followed by the risks involved along wit...

Effectiveness of cybersecurity audit

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of internal audit of cybersecurity. We developed a Cybersecurity Audit Index composed of three dimensions – planning, performing and reporting – to address this question. We hypothesize ...

Cybersecurity: Risk management framework and investment cost analysis

Doctrine for Cybersecurity

A succession of doctrines for enhancing cybersecurity has been advocated in the past, including prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective. Proposals that are now being made view cybersecur...

Cyber risk and cybersecurity: a systematic review of data availability

Cybercrime is estimated to have cost the global economy just under USD 1 trillion in 2020, indicating an increase of more than 50% since 2018. With the average cyber insurance claim rising from USD 145,000 in 2019 to USD 359,000 in 2020, th...

Institutional Strategies for Cybersecurity in Higher Education Institutions

Cybersecurity threats have grown exponentially, posing a heavy burden on organisations. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are particularly vulnerable, and their cybersecurity issues are receiving greater attention. However, existing rese...

Value-based software engineering

Much of current software engineering practice and research is done in a value-neutral setting, in which every requirement, use case, object, and defect is treated as equally important; methods are presented and practiced as largely logical ...

Early Stage Risk Identification and Governance of Major Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Double-Case Study Based on the Chinese Context

Xuefeng Li,1,2 Hui Jiang,1 Xiaoyu Liang1 1School of Engineering Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Scien...

A Review on Cybersecurity

In recent years the cybersecurity has evolved significantly in order to cater to the changes that occur within the cyberspace. Cybersecurity is the means by which a country or organization can utilize to protect its products and information...

An Intersection–Union Test for the Sharpe Ratio

An intersection–union test for supporting the hypothesis that a given investment strategy is optimal among a set of alternatives is presented. It compares the Sharpe ratio of the benchmark with that of each other strategy. The interse...

Study of the state of readiness of pharmaceutical institutions of Ukraine for implementation of integrated quality systems

One of the most promising ways to increase the efficiency of pharmaceutical enterprises in the field of quality assurance of medicines is the introduction of integrated quality systems (IQS). The aim of the work is to study of the state ...