Environmental scanning is an important process that helps organizations sense what is happening in their environments. However, environmental scanning has been found to be less effective than its proponents had hoped for. The problem appears to be that environmental scanning does not lead to the business insights that managers need to help their organizations survive and grow. This paper report...

This study examines the relationships between various risks, beliefs, and behavioral intentions that are related to citizens' use of anti-/counter-terrorism e-Government websites. The data was collected through two surveys within a one-year interval — before and after the Iraqi regime was expelled by the US coalition army. The results suggest that perceived privacy risk from an anti/counter-ter...

With the integration of security-critical services into Building Automation Systems (BAS), the demands on the underlying network technologies increase rapidly. Relying on physically isolated networks and on “Security by Obscurity”, as it is still common today, is by no means an adequate solution. To be reliable and robust against malicious manipulations, the used communication services must sup...

Methods Capture data for 15 diadromous and 15 non-diadromous fish species from 13,369 sites throughout New Zealand were analysed to establish features of their geographic ranges. Statistical models were used to determine the main environmental correlates of species’ distributions, and to establish the environmental conditions preferred by each species. Environmental predictors, chosen for their...

Sensor inquirers cannot understand comprehensive or accurate observation capability information because current observation capability modeling does not consider the union of multiple sensors nor the effect of geospatial environmental features on the observation capability of sensors. These limitations result in a failure to discover credible sensors or plan for their collaboration for environm...

RESPONSE: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department created an International Relations Unit to assist in developing problem-solving initiatives targeting the international community. A multifaceted approach including building tenant-management relationships, a CPTED survey guided physical changes to the complex, and police presence was increased through bike and foot patrols. Additionally, mo...

as H. J. S. Smith, and Vandiver's numerous contributions to the same end. Last there is the recent work of Dickson, which bids fair to be epoch making, on Algebras and their Arithmetics,* where the classic theory of algebraic numbers finds a simple and profound generalization. With the books of Landau and Dickson, the report of Hubert and that of the present authors now available, it is to be h...

We present a simple theoretical framework for analysing values of environmental improvements in continuous time, for individuals that can be either healthy or ill, with constant transition between the states and constant mortality rates in each state, and when direct welfare, mortality and morbidity are all affected by environmental quality. We first show that the values of being in each of the...

The resistance change due to electromigration induced voiding in modern copper interconnects ended by a Through Silicon Via (TSV) is analyzed. It is shown that two different modes of resistance increase exist during the period of void growth under the TSV. Primarily responsible are imperfections at the TSV bottom introduced during the fabrication process. Consequently, the time to failure of su...

A well known result in the economics of tort law is that in the case of a unilateral stochastic externality both a negligence rule and strict liability are in general able to achieve socially optimal precaution. It will be shown in this paper that this equivalence result does no longer hold if imperfect information and multidimensional pollution control activities are considered. It will turn o...