in the decentralized international system and lack of central authority, the first objective, priority and precedence of states, is maintenance of national security and preservation of self. from the past, durable national security provision has been include ,three readily type: 1. military readily2. political readily 3. economic readily. but economic factors of national security by the end col...

In this paper we will construct a lattice-based public-key cryptosystem using non-commutative quaternion algebra, and since its lattice does not fully fit within Circular and Convolutional Modular Lattice (CCML), we prove it is arguably more secure than the existing lattice-based cryptosystems such as NTRU. As in NTRU, the proposed public-key cryptosystem relies for its inherent securi...

Introduction: Social participation is considered one dimension and also determinant of quality of life. The level of social participation of the elderly is influenced by various components such as socio-economic and demographic factors. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between social participation, quality of life, and some socio-economic factors in community dwelling elderly ...

We hypothesize that it is possible to obtain significant gains in operational efficiency through the application of simple analysis techniques to firewall rule sets. This paper describes our experiences with a firewall analysis tool and metrics that we have designed and used to help manage large production rule sets. Firewall rule sets typically become increasingly unwieldy over time. It is com...

Background: One of the challenges of implementing the family physician program is the decrease in the number of doctors, especially in rural and deprived areas, the present study aimed to determine the intentions of family physicians to persist in the health centers affiliated in Hormozgan city. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 195 physicians in the health centers implement...

termination of the cold war was followed by considerable developments in international relations, including the emergence and gradual empowerment of new political actors. china was one of these actors whose process of empowerment, which actually started many years before the end of the cold war, has drawn attention from many analysts. central asia is one of the regions with which china has had ...

Center for Research and Education in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. [email protected] Abstract This paper proposes a framework for teaching information security ethics at colleges and universities. The framework requires that students examine information security ethics from four dimensions: the ethical dimension, the security dimension, the solut...