This document analyzes the FIDO security. The analysis is performed on the basis of the FIDO Universal Authentication Framework (UAF) specification and FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) specifications as of the date of this publication. Status of This Document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of ...

Little is known about exactly which elements of alcohol brief motivational intervention (BMI) make it work. A causal chain between therapist motivational interviewing behaviors, subsequent client change talk (CT), and actual behavior change has been postulated. Other researchers have proposed the notion of a working alliance between counselor and client to explain better outcomes. However, thes...

This research studies a case that two enterprises produce two different but substitutable goods. The consumer demand depends on two kinds of factors: prices and service levels of the product and substitutable product. This article is based on three scenarios: Nash Equilibrium, Enterprise Alliance and Stackelberg. Game-theoretic framework is applied to find the optimal solutions for every partic...

This paper contributes to the debate on the participation of SMEs in voluntary business networks by framing the relationship between the different types of network-based learning. Learning about networking, which concerns the capability to set, manage, and terminate a strategic alliance, is opposed to learning by networking, which involves the sharing and the joint creation of technical knowled...

A year after the World Health Assembly adopted the framework convention on tobacco control, the goal of having 40 countries ratify the treaty by 29 June is proving elusive. While 192 member nations of the World Health Organization backed the convention last year, only 113 countries have taken the first step towards implementing it by signing it. Of these only 13 have taken the next step and rat...

Alliance networks can often be viewed as loosely coupled systems of autonomous firms. We propose that firms orchestrate network activities to ensure the creation and extraction of value. Orchestration comprises network capability, knowledge sharing, and innovation appropriability. Firstly, we applies the network theory to investigate whether the development of network capability and knowledge s...

In this paper we provide an overview of E-Alliance, a software infrastructure we are developing to support negotiation activities in concurrent inter-organisational alliances. Our baseline is to offer a collaboration framework which fully preserves the autonomy of organisations grouped in an alliance, while enabling concurrency of their activities, flexibility of their negotiations and dynamic ...

Strategic alliances are increasingly gaining popular for Textile companies to achieve fast and economical growth in today’s globalization. Strategic alliances are an important source of resources, learning, and thereby core competencies improvement. So managers have to make conscious decisions to develop certain competencies so as to have all competencies that are required to be successful, fir...

AIMS The perceived success of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in influencing national and global public health policies has led to growing interest in promulgating new international legal instruments to address global health issues-including calls for a Framework Convention on Alcohol Control (FCAC). METHODS Despite broad support in the public health community, the authors ...