The ultimate aim of the COINS COntrolled INformation Security – project is to investigate, assess, and provide tools to improve the information security status in organizations with a focus on public agencies. A central question for the project is how information security issues are communicated within the organizations, specifically underlining that communication is control in a cybernetic sen...

Background. A large proportion of natural grasslands around the world is exposed to overgrazing resulting in land degradation and biodiversity loss. Although there is an increasing effort in the promotion of sustainable livestock management, rangeland degradation still occurs because animals' foraging behaviour is highly selective at different spatial scales. The assessment of the ecological me...

A MONG general practitioners (GPs) opinion has been divided about the validity of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME) as an illness. 1 Now, in a report to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) an expert group has concluded that the condition is indeed a chronic illness meriting significant NHS resources, including the unre-served attention of the medical profession. 2 Widespre...

With the exponential growth of online social network services such as Facebook and Twitter, social networks and social medias become more and more important, directly influencing politics, economics, and our daily life. Mining big social networks aims to collect and analyze web-scale social data to reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors. It is an inherently interdisciplinary academic...

“Scrap Your Boilerplate” (SYB) is an established style of generic functional programming. The present paper reconstructs SYB within the Prolog language with the help of the univ operator and higher-order logic programming techniques. We pay attention to the particularities of Prolog. For instance, we deal with traversal of non-ground terms. We also develop an alternative model of SYB-like trave...

Background: Social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. It is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. Methods: The key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...