The tasks a system administrator must fullfil become more and more complex as information systems increase in complexity and connectivity. More specifically, the problem of the expression and update of security requirements is central. Formal models designed to express security policies have proved to be necessary since they provide non ambiguous semantics to analyze them. However such models a...

BACKGROUND Statistical time series derived from administrative data sets form key indicators in measuring progress in addressing disadvantage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in Australia. However, inconsistencies in the reporting of Indigenous status can cause difficulties in producing reliable indicators. External data sources, such as survey data, provide a means of asses...

The ongoing European integration on a political and economic level leads to an increasing mobility of European citizens. In this paper we describe the generic problems addressed by the European Research Project FASME (Facilitating Administrative Services for Mobile Europeans). We propose a citizen-centric civil registration process based on JavaCards and discuss cultural and technical problems ...

In German hospitals, quality measurement, monitoring, and management have undergone considerable development. This includes an array of mandatory measures, including a nationwide benchmarking exercise based on 194 indicators. Because of better and deeper coding of diagnoses, procedures, and demographic information since the introduction of the diagnosis-related group (DRG) system, two further "...

There exist many access control models in the literature, and several models are emerging each year. Yet, there is no formal taxonomy to compare the administrative features of these models. We propose a novel formalism to compare access control administration models based on their expressivity in a) administrative decentralization and b) conflict resolution. The contribution is a taxonomy by wh...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the glass ceiling on women creative ideas working in administrative province units of lorestan state with moderating of their self-concept variable. the population of this cross-correlation study included all women employees of administrative province units of lorestan state. using stratified sampling, and based on morgan table, 306 persons we...

The objective of study was to evaluate the incidence and mortality rates of disasters and mass casualty incidents (MCIs) over the past 10 yr in the administrative system of Korea administrative system and to examine their relationship with population characteristics. This was a population-based cross-sectional study. We calculated the nationwide incidence, as well as the crude mortality and inj...

This paper presents SGFS a secure global file sharing system. SGFS is designed based on important design requirements that include: efficiency for high performance data access, flexibility of cross-domain file sharing without administrative interference, support for flexible policies and off-the-shelf policy managers, ability to be deployed in diverse environments, ease of management and low ad...

Suicide is a sentinel event in prison, and preventive efforts reflect the adequacy and comprehensiveness of mental health, psychiatric, custodial, and administrative services in a correctional system. This article reviews the literature on suicide in prison during the past three decades and identifies the pattern and occurrence of risk factors. These risk factors are classified as demographic, ...