The ever-growing threats of fraud and security incidents present many challenges to law enforcement and organisations across the globe. This has given rise to the need for organisations to build effective incident management strategies, which will enhance the company’s reactive capability to security incidents. The aim of this paper is to propose proactive activities an organisation can underta...

This paper outlines the need for and the development of an Incident Management Ontology. The Incident Management Ontology is derived from an Incident Management Meta-Model. We describe the shortcomings of the Incident Management Meta-Model and how the Incident Management Ontology addresses these shortcomings. The development of the Incident Management Ontology is outlined and the need for such ...

Purpose of review Although arterial hypertension is less common in children than in adults, there is growing concern about elevated blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents not only because of the association of elevated values with the overweight epidemic, but also as cardiovascular functions are determined in childhood and track into adulthood. The purpose of the review is to discuss n...

Hidenori Yamada, DDS, PhD (1), Ayako Okada, DDS, PhD (1), Takatoshi Murata, DDS, PhD (1), Kimiyuki Uetani, DDS (2), Mami Kotoh, DDS, PhD (2), Naoyuki Nishitsuji, DDS (2), Yoshihide Yabuki, DDS (2), Yoichi Fukuzawa, DDS, PhD (2), Hirokazu Yoshino, DDS (2), Koshi Kubo, DDS (2), Mitsuhiro Abe, DDS, PhD (2), Takatoshi One, DDS, PhD (2), Hiroaki Nagai, DDS, PhD (2), Masataka Yajima, DDS (2), Yoshiak...

MATS is an operational system in use by The Norwegian Food Safety Authority. This paper demonstrates how ACM can support time critical emergency action as well as planned case work, in one unified system. A brief account is given of these two different approaches to ACM, and the interaction between them in MATS, providing a basis for discussion. On the one hand, we have an ACM approach with tas...

This study examined the effects of historical reasoning strategy instruction on 11th-grade students. Students learned historical inquiry strategies using 20th Century American history topics ranging from the Spanish-American war to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. In addition, students learned a pre-writing strategy for composing argumentative essays related to each historical event. Results indica...

Over the last decade, the Cloud Computing paradigm has emerged as a panacea for many problems in traditional IT infrastructures. Much has been said about the potential of Cloud Computing in the context of the Smart Grid, but unfortunately it is still relegated to a second layer when it comes to critical systems. Although the advantages of outsourcing these kinds of applications to the cloud is ...

Before exploring the questions about creativity, subjectivity, and sociotechnical ordering raised in Chapter 1, it is useful to establish a general framework for those inquiries. I have promised an account of the “networked self,” related in some way to something called the “play of everyday practice.” Those terms are not usual in legal scholarship about information policy. For most legal schol...

Traffic incident duration is one of the most important parameters to describe traffic congestion intensity of expressways. Numerous measures have been developed to describe the characteristics of traffic incidents and the vast majority of these studies use data mining. Though they inform us the objective elements of the environment may influence traffic incident, the how question-via what way t...