Security questions are one of the mechanisms used to recover passwords. Strong answers to security questions (i.e. high entropy) are hard for attackers to guess or obtain using social engineering techniques (e.g. monitoring of social networking profiles), but at the same time are difficult to remember. Instead, weak answers to security questions (i.e. low entropy) are easy to remember, which ma...

The notion that genes play a uniquely distinguished rôle in biological evolution has been championed by Richard Dawkins (1976; 1989b). Furthermore, Dawkins has argued that this idea can be generalised in a way which makes it applicable to any properly Darwinian evolutionary process, at least if that process gives rise to a growth in adaptive complexity (Dawkins 1983). It is evident, therefore, ...

Background: Health insurance literacy is a nascent concept that has emerged mainly after the implementation of the law known as Obamacare in the United States. This study seeks to identify the themes of health insurance literacy in Iranian society. Methods: The study approach is qualitative. Data were collected using nine semi-structured interviews, ten focal group meetings with the presence o...

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Condition monitoring uses sensory signals to assess the health of engineering systems. A degradation model is a mathematical characterization of the evolution of a condition signal. Our recent research focuses on using degradation models to compute residuallife distributions for degrading components. Residual-life distributions are important for providing probabilistic estimates of failure time...

regenerative medicine has an exciting role in the treatment of disorders and conditions where there is an irreversible damage to a tissue or an organ or in immunodeficient state. stem cells which have the potential to differentiate into specific types of cells, offers a new concept of regenerative medicine to treat spectrum of diseases including infections. Infections are one of the cause of hi...

Regulatory compliance is increasingly viewed as an essential element of requirements engineering. Laws, but also regulations and policies, frame their provisions through complex structures made of conditions, derogations, exceptions, which together generate a high number of alternative compliance solutions. This paper addresses the problem of modeling, exploring and selecting among alternatives...

Insurance companies are among the service organizations, which maintain close relationships with their clients by providing insurance services. Clients are the most important resource for service companies. And profitability of insurance companies undoubtedly hinges on clear analysis of client satisfaction and improved productivity of service providers. An important factor of client satisfactio...