Terrorism has been a constant threat in traditional and contemporary societies. Recently, it has been converged with new media technology and cyberspace, resulting in the modern tactic, cyber-terrorism, which has become most effective in achieving terrorist goals. Among the countless cyber-terrorist cases and scenarios of only this last decade, the paper discusses four cyber-terrorism cases tha...

in this research paper, we applied rituals of social drama processes to find out symbols, decoding and signs in the manegh-al-tair. in our analysis we discovered that birds, instead of humans, are acting as players in the social stage. each of these birds possess some particular characteristics and social statuses, which are attributed to the humans who lived in the attar time (age). to offer m...

BACKGROUND Evidence-informed health policymaking is a goal of equitable and effective health systems but occurs infrequently in reality. Past research points to the facilitating role of interpersonal relationships between policy-makers and researchers, imploring the adoption of a social network lens. This study aims to identify network-level factors associated with the exchange and use of resea...

Recent years have witnessed an increasing availability of heterogeneous sensor networks that consist of a large number of resource constrained nodes (sensors) and a small number of powerful resource rich nodes (actors). Such heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Actor Network (WSANs) offer improvement of sensor networks' capacity/coverage, energy conservation and network lifetime. This paper investigat...

extended abstract 1.introduction relationship pattern has a complex, combinational and also intelligible nature in the current geopolitical structure of the world. civilizations’ relations together and civilization interactions include: engagement, competition and conflict in a range of geopolitical treatment pattern. some of spatial values which originated challenges among region country have ...

Global changes, especially the progression of climate change, create a plethora of adaptation needs for social-ecological systems. With increasing uncertainty, more resilient food systems that are able to adapt and shape their operations in response to emerging challenges are required. Most of the research on this subject has been focused on developing countries; however, developed countries al...

This thesis has been assigned by TeliaSonera to Stockholm School of Economics. The purpose of this research has been to give a second opinion regarding the possibilities of m-payments through NFC and the barriers to overcome to make this a reality. Today there is an enormous amount of research done on the technical solutions of NFC but almost none is done on business solutions and models for th...

What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors. Only 6% of the frauds are revealed ...