Fraud and security continue to be problems for firms. Fraud information is typically incomplete and deliberately obfuscated. These qualities make fraud events harder to detect using conventional security controls. This study uses a knowledge management framework to explore how different types of controls are used to detect and investigate information fraud. The analysis is based on the customer...

This paper presents work for the development of a framework to assure the security of networked medical devices being incorporated. The paper focuses on one component of the framework, which addresses system development processes, and the assurance of these through the use of a Process Assessment Model with a major focus on the security risk management process. With the inclusion of a set of sp...

lower respiratory illness, infancy, childhood.

Background Headache is a very common complaint in children, and can have a profound impact on school performance [1], being the major cause of absence from school [2], and interfering with other daily activities [3]. The studies based on parental reports may be an unreliable source of information on the frequency of headache in young children; in fact, it has been suggested that almost 36% of t...

BACKGROUND Scleroderma (SSc) gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms may affect nutritional status and patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVE To study prevalence of GI symptoms and its relationship to nutritional profile and quality of life of patients with SSc. METHODS Fifty two SSc patients and 51 controls were studied for BMI (body mass index), dietary recall, major GI symptoms and quality of life ...

the environmental pollution is one of the factors contributing to the decrease of sperm quality for human beings. the aim of this study was to assess cadmium (cd), chromium (cr), and copper (cu) concentration of man in environmental pollution site, and explore relationships between men exposure to cd, cr, and cu and semen-quality parameters in environmental pollution site.ninety five men were r...