Living in a digital age, where all kinds of information are accessible electronically at all times, organizations worldwide struggle to keep their information assets secure. Interestingly, the majority of organizational information systems security (ISS) incidents are the direct or indirect result of human errors. To explore how organizations can defend themselves against harmful ISS behaviour,...

Traditional database systems have been successful in handling large amounts of data but lack mechanisms for schema derivations and schema veriication. In this paper, we propose (i) structures that carry expressive and useful information on the database schema, (ii) a set of inference rules for schema derivations, and (iii) a mechanism for discovering contradictory schema declarations. To this e...

When an object migrates from one class to another in an ISA hierarchy, it acquires or loses membership in respective classes in the ISA hierarchy. Since an object can be an instance of multiple classes in the ISA hierarchy, there is a question of whether to have a single object identifier (OID) or multiple OIDs assigned to an object as it migrates along the ISA hierarchy. We refer to this as th...

Ischemic preconditioning (IP) and prior exposure to lipopolysaccharides (LPS) reduce infarct size (IS) and serum tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) concentration resulting from myocardial ischemia-reperfusion in rabbits. The decrease in TNF-α might relate to an induced TNF-α inhibitory serum activity (TNF-α-ISA). We analyzed TNF-α and TNF-α-ISA during 30 and 180 min ischemia and reperfusion, respe...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is a public health problem that is common across ethnic groups. The utility of validated screening tools to detect abuse in diverse populations remains largely unknown. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to test the reliability and validity of a brief 4-question instrument, HITS, among predominantly Hispanic women. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional stud...

The beauty of Information Technology (IT) is with its multifunction nature; it is a support system, a networking system, a storage system, as well as an information facilitator. Aided with their broad line of services, an IT system aims to support or even drive organisations towards desired paths. Trends of IT and information security awareness (ISA) in society today, particularly within the bu...

It is widely assumed that the recording of EEG infraslow activity (ISA) requires direct current amplifiers. Yet, it has been shown during the past decade that conventional EEG systems can record activity between 0.01 and 0.1 Hz and that this frequency band contains additional information, especially in regard to seizure onset. To delineate the characteristics of background ISA, 24-hour scalp an...

Independent subspace anlaysis (ISA) is a linear modelbased method which generalizes independent component analysis (ICA) by incorporating the invariant feature subspace into multidimensional ICA. In this paper we apply ISA to the problem of gene expression data analysis and show the useful behavior of the independent subspaces of gene expression data in the task of gene clustering and gene-gene...

Co-landfilling of incineration ash and cellulose might facilitate the alkaline degradation of cellulose. A major degradation product is isosaccharinic acid (ISA), a complexing agent for metals. The impact of ISA on the mobility of Pb, Zn, Cr, Cu and Cd from a municipal solid waste incineration dry scrubber residue was studied at laboratory using a reduced 2(5-1) factorial design. Factors invest...