The adoption rate of Internet-based technologies by United Kingdom (UK) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is regularly surveyed by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Over several decades information security has evolved from early work such as the Bell La Padula (BLP) model toward widely disseminated Information Security Guidelines containing comprehensive and detailed advice. The ov...

A lack of information security awareness within some parts of society as well as some organisations continues to exist today. Whilst we have emerged from the threats of late 1990s of viruses such as Code Red and Melissa, through to the phishing emails of the mid 2000’s and the financial damage some such as the Nigerian scam caused, we continue to react poorly to new threats such as demanding mo...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to advance practitioners’ knowledge base of best practices in phonological awareness intervention to facilitate the implementation of evidenceor research-based practices in everyday clinical practice. Although most speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have a basic knowledge of phonological awareness, this article provides additional information on the vari...

The purpose of this paper is to present research in progress concerning barriers to sharing information in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME‟s). The work will examine the barriers to sharing in the newly emerging economies of Poland and Hungary with the relatively established economy of the UK. The results of the study will be used to from a model of “best practice” for SME‟s who are sett...

This paper compares parametric and non-parametric estimates of productivity change in European banking between 1994 and 2000. Productivity growth has also been further decomposed into technological change, or change in best practice, and efficiency change. Both the parametric and non-parametric approaches consistently identify those systems that have benefited most (and least) from productivity...

Requirements specification has long been acknowledged as an area for further research in the development of systems, particularly for those that are computer based. In addition, an IEEE White Paper by Tripp and Keane indicates that current practice regarding System Dependability is in large part based on “tricks of the trade”, and that there is a need to codify “best practices”. This paper atte...

 The authors would like to thank the European Agency for Reconstruction for access to their data and their kind support. ABSTRACT Different procurement decisions taken by relief organizations can result in considerably different implications in regards to transport, storage, and distribution of humanitarian aid and ultimately can influence the performance of the humanitarian supply chain and t...

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