Climate change is one of the biggest geopolitical challenges facing states and peoples in 21st century. It can be said without exaggeration that climate a multiplier conflicts associated with growth socio-political instability global stratification societies, increased migration pressure, more frequent large-scale natural disasters form forest fires floods, causing serious social consequences, ...

Newly emerging ad hoc networking technology has enormous potential benefit for many missioncritical applications. However, providing adequate security required for the target applications presents many new challenges due to the unique nature of ad hoc environments. Complete decentralization and the absence of any support infrastructure in ad hoc environments effectively eliminates the possibili...

One of humanity's major challenges of the 21st century will be meeting future food demands on an increasingly resource constrained-planet. Global food production will have to rise by 70 percent between 2000 and 2050 to meet effective demand which poses major challenges to food production systems. Doing so without compromising environmental integrity is an even greater challenge. This study look...

Effective communication of science to the general public is important for numerous reasons, including support for policy, funding, informed public decision making, among others. Prior research has found that scientists participating in public policy and public communication must frame their communication efforts in order to connect with audiences. A frame is the mechanism that individuals use t...

Synopsis: Cyber security refers to the ability to prepare for, react to and recover from incidents (i.e. attacks) initiated from an Internet-connected device against other devices or the information they contain. Recent developments in the cyber security field show an increasing number of industries becoming targets of cyber attacks. With vessels, terminals, ports and transport operators relyin...