Provocateurs and Their Rights to Self-Defence

Using Malware Self-Defence Mechanism to Harden Defence and Remediation Tools

Malware are becoming a major problem to every individual and organization in the cyber world. They are advancing in sophistication in many ways. Besides their advanced abilities to penetrate and stay evasive against detection and remediation, they have strong resilience mechanisms that are defying all attempts to eradicate them. Malware are also attacking defence of the systems and making them ...

Employers: passive purchasers or provocateurs?

This article addresses the potential role of business leadership in diverse efforts to reform health care financing: exploring managers efforts to alter health care markets in their role as large purchasers of health insurance, their potential contributions to future national policy proposals, and their involvement with community-level activities to control local health costs and quality. I arg...

Dutch police officers' preparation and performance of their arrest and self-defence skills: a questionnaire study.

We investigated how Dutch police officers perceive their preparation for arrest and self-defence skills (ASDS) and their ability to manage violence on duty. Furthermore, we assessed whether additional experience (i.e., by having encountered violence on duty or by practicing martial arts) and self-perceived anxiety have an influence on these perceptions. Results of an online questionnaire (n = 9...

Stress proteins, self defence, and the myocardium.

Fighting for their rights.

“I was now a resident, or rather an inmate, of the hospital,” says a mental health service user, of their experience in an institution. “I saw no one except the other people on the floor, who wore identical striped hospital robes and plastic bracelets with identifying names. The mental health workers were the only ones who could open the locked door. I left my hope on the other side of the lock...