This paper includes a brief survey illustrating the approach to information security (INFOSEC) investment taken by various organizations, as well as guidelines based on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) management plans to allocate limited funds among proposals for enhancing National Airspace System (NAS) INFOSEC.

1 Chinese railway system serves as an important role for the economy of China and the travel needs 2 of its citizens. As China is subject to frequent earthquake events, it is important to investigate 3 how to strengthen the railway system to retain its service after earthquakes. This paper proposes a 4 comprehensive methodology to suggest the optimal investment plan using historical earthquake ...

2 Pension assets exist to defease the benefit promises made by plan sponsors to participants and beneficiaries—in other words, the pension liability. It follows that pension investment policies should be set in a way that explicitly integrates the exposures of the pension liability. The traditional approach to pension investing has excluded the risks of the liability, which has resulted in port...

Purpose Social entrepreneurs engage in action because social want to solve problems. Consequently, see more entrepreneurship contexts with the most severe problems is expected. This paper argues that this an oversimplification of problem-action nexus and does not necessarily correspond observed scale Drawing on theoretical framing crescive conditions, relationship affected by forms public inves...

economic development plans normally contain some policy objectives, especially for the most important macroeconomic variables. governments are expected to take best policies to achieve these objectives, although due to some structural or other impediments they may fail to touch the objectives. we have attempted to uncover the determinants of private consumption and investment as the objectives ...

The use of natural resource revenues for achievement of development has been a challenging issue for resource abundant countries. These challenges stem from the fact that incomes from natural resources are non-durable, unpredictable and uncertain. Different countries have pursued various approaches and tools for managing these revenues to avoid economic fluctuations. The international organizat...

The research at University College London School of Medicine (UCLSM) is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Action Research, the Special Trustees of University College Hospital, and the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain. The studies have been carried out with the assistance of Dr. P. S. Tofts, Mr. D. Delpy and Mr. A. Chu of the Department of Medical Physics (UCLSM), and Mr. N.Taylor of Kin...

System-initiated digressive proposals may be used to introduce new and unexpected information into automated telephone services. These digressions may be viewed as particularly pronounced forms of unsolicited interruptions as they contain information not directly related to the caller’s intended activity. In human–human conversation, interruptions are considered to be speech acts which intrinsi...