background : the implementation of hse programs is so complicated in tunneling industry which is considered as one of the risky industries. this study aims at investigating the relationship between employees' safety attitudes and status of their belief in destiny, chance and perceived importance of hse programs in occurrence of occupational accidents. methods : this research is a cross-sectiona...

HTTPS is the de facto standard for securing Internet communications. Although it is widely deployed, the security provided with HTTPS in practice is dubious. HTTPS may fail to provide security for multiple reasons, mostly due to certificate-based authentication failures. Given the importance of HTTPS, we investigate the current scale and practices of HTTPS and certificate-based deployment. We p...

While the adoption of computer systems is pervasive in most industries, few healthcare organizations have implemented electronic health record systems. Security is a major issue for these healthcare organizations. Security concerns include breaches of privacy and medical identity theft. This article uses a hybrid technology acceptance model (TAM) to explore why healthcare organizations are slow...

With the popularization of wireless network, security issue is more and more important. When IEEE 802.11i draft proposed TKIP, it is expected to improve WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) on both active and passive attack methods. Especially in generating and management of secret keys, TKIP uses more deliberative attitude to distribute keys. Besides, it just upgrades software to accomplish these fu...

introduction: despite advances in science and technology, still some natural hazards such as earthquakes cannot be predicted accurately. however, with appropriate knowledge, accurate planning and necessary predictions, we can decrease the mortality and financial losses of such disasters. therefore, attitude and preparedness of healthcare managers toward earthquake can have an important role in ...

abstract: background and objectives :  professional ethics is part of midwifery skills that cannot be separated from it .midwives must get acquainted with this skill and ethical laws, avoiding at the same time unethical manners. materials and methods : this study was cross-sectional survey which examined knowledge and attitude of 101 midwives that had been selected by convenient sampling proced...

security has two dimensions of subjective (security feeling) and objective. there are preconditions for security feeling in society that one of the preconditions, the existence of security in the society. these levels are linked together and the interaction between these two levels of objective and subjective that security in the society is achieved.therefore, in this article we have tried to e...

An ingenious data warehouse habitually contains information which must be painstaking enormously sensitive and proprietary. Protection of this information, as important as it is, is too often thorny by the presence of assorted computing environments, managerial issues, difficulties in controlling data distribution, and slipshod attitudes towards information security. We present a method of in p...

Biodiversity informatics (BDI) information is both highly localized and highly distributed. The temporal and spatial contexts of data collection events are generally of primary importance in BDI studies, and most studies are focused around specific localities. At the same time, data are collected by many groups working independently, but often at the same sites, leading to a distribution of dat...

— Observers have asserted that India’s economic rise coincides with moral change. This study assesses some notable aspects of this claim by using public attitudes toward tax evasion and bribery as indicators of moral values. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the World Values Surveys, I find that tolerance for tax evasion and bribery grew relatively slightly from 1991 to 1996, and then in...