Eastern Mediterranean Problem from Regional (In)Security to Global (In)Security

Regional Overview of Food Insecurity Africa

Chronic Food Insecurity Transitory Food Insecurity

Food UTILIZATION Utilization is commonly understood as the way the body makes the most of various nutrients in the food. Sufficient energy and nutrient intake by individuals is the result of good care and feeding practices, food preparation, diversity of the diet and intra-household distribution of food. Combined with good biological utilization of food consumed, this determines the nutritional...

Global resources: abuse, scarcity, and insecurity.

Introduction Sedation is widely used in intensive care unit (ICU) patients to limit the risk of pulmonary barotrauma and to decrease oxygen needs. However, adverse effects of sedation have not been fully evaluated; in particular, effects of benzodiazepine and opiates on microcirculation have not been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microcirculatory effects of a se...

Twist Insecurity

Several authors suggest that the use of twist secure Elliptic Curves automatically leads to secure implementations. We argue that even for twist secure curves a point validation has to be performed. We illustrate this with examples where the security of EC-algorithms is strongly degraded, even for twist secure curves. We show that the usual blindig countermeasures against SCA are insufficient (...

Wireless Insecurity

This paper is an up to date look at various problems inherent in today’s wireless networks from a user as well as administrator’s point of view. The wireless medium makes eavesdropping a major threat, interference a problem, and the interception of transmissions easier than on wired networks. Several security problems and threats are exposed in detail along with descriptions on how to exploit t...