This paper outlines the position of a new project with focus on the vulnerability of critical information infrastructures in Norway. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Studies at FFI have uncovered vulnerabilities in telecommunications, electric power supply and transport. Society’s dependency on information and communication technology and information infrastructure is also underlined. To ...

Personality is relatively stable in adulthood but could change in response to life transitions, such as caring for a spouse with a terminal illness. Using a case-control design, spousal caregivers (n=31) of patients with terminal lung cancer completed the NEO-FFI twice, 1.5 years apart, before and after the patient's death. A demographically-matched sample of community controls (n=93) completed...

A sample of 199 persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) were assessed on Big Five personality dimensions using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992) at admission to an inpatient medical rehabilitation program. A cluster analysis of the baseline NEO-FFI yielded 3 cluster prototypes that resemble resilient, undercontrolled, and overcontrolled prototypes identified in many pr...

The present study evaluated the latent structure of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO FFI) and relations between the five-factor model (FFM) of personality and dimensions of DSM-IV anxiety and depressive disorders (panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder [GAD], obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia [SOC], major depressive disorder [MDD]) in a large sample of outpatients (N = 1,980)...

Experimental data indicate that simple motor decisions in vertebrates are preceded by integration of evidence in certain cortical areas, and that the competition between them is resolved in the basal ganglia. While the occurrence of cortical integration is well established, it is not yet clear exactly how the integration occurs. Several models have been proposed, including the race model, the f...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the personality factors and self-efficacy in relation to mental health among university students. The sample comprised of 80 post graduate students (40 boys and 40 girls), who was randomly selected, from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992), General Self-Efficacy Scale-Hindi (GSS-H...

A Foreign Function Interface (FFI) allows one host programming language to interoperate with another foreign language. It enables efficient software development by permitting developers to assemble components in different languages. One typical FFI is the Java Native Interface (JNI), through which Java programs can invoke native-code components developed in C, C++, or assembly code. Although FF...

TALUS (TAktisk LUftkampSimulering) is a discrete event, Monte Carlo based air combat simulation model developed at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Norwegian acronym: FFI). The model was requested by the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF), but will mainly be used for operational research at the FFI. The development took place in a small, well integrated project with the authority to...

Goldberg s (2001) IPIP Big-Five personality factor markers currently lack validating evidence. The structure of the 50-item IPIP was examined in three different adult samples (total N = 906), in each case justifying a 5-factor solution, with only minor discrepancies. Age differences were comparable to previous findings using other inventories. One sample (N = 207) also completed two further per...

As a subtype of idiopathic generalized epilepsies, absence epilepsy is believed to be caused by pathological interactions within the corticothalamic (CT) system. Using a biophysical mean-field model of the CT system, we demonstrate here that the feed-forward inhibition (FFI) in thalamus, i.e., the pathway from the cerebral cortex (Ctx) to the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) and then to the spe...