This study aims to develop a model for the user acceptance for implementing the information security standard (i.e. ISO 27001) in Turkish public organizations. The results of the surveys performed in Turkey reveal that the legislation on information security public which organizations have to obey is significantly related with the user acceptance during ISO 27001 implementation process. The fun...

Based on ISO 27001 for Information Security Management Systems, this paper introduces a newly developed security analysis approach, suitable for technical security analyses in general. This approach is used for a security analysis of several components and processes of the Health Care Telematics in Germany. Besides the results of the analysis, basics for further analysis and verification activi...

The ISO/IEC 17799 standard (2005) is commonly viewed as a necessary element in information security management. However, there is no empirical evidence of the usefulness of the standard in practice. To study this issue, this study analyses the implementation experiences of four organisations that have implemented the ISO/IEC 17799 (2005) standard. Through semi-structured interviews, the results...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...

1. Formoterol and salmeterol are the first members of a new generation of long-acting beta(2)-adrenoceptor agonists for inhalation. The discovery of the long effect duration of formoterol was made by chance, while the development of salmeterol appeared to follow a purposeful research strategy. 2. Preclinical evaluation predictive of the clinical duration of effect of long-acting bronchodilators...

A number of different security standards exist and it is difficult to choose the right one for a particular project or to evaluate if the right standard was chosen for a certification. These standards are often long and complex texts, whose reading and understanding takes up a lot of time. We provide a conceptual model for security standards that relies upon existing research and contains conce...

The ISO/IEC 27001 is an important and the most leading international information security management standard in the information security (InfoSec) world. The benefits of implementing the ISO 27001 are to provide market assurance and IT governance, based on customer demands and legal requirements. Although the ISO 27001 is a generic standard for all types of organisations and countries, there a...

JPEG 2000, a new international standard for still image compression, is discussed at length. A high-level introduction to the JPEG-2000 standard is given, followed by a detailed technical description of the JPEG2000 Part-1 codec. Keywords—JPEG 2000, still image compression/coding, standards.

In this paper the FPGA implementations for four stream ciphers are presented. The two stream ciphers, MUGI and SNOW 2.0 are recently adopted by the International Organization for Standardization ISO/IEC 18033-4:2005 standard. The other two stream ciphers, MICKEY 128 and TRIVIUM have been submitted and are under consideration for the eSTREAM, the ECRYPT (European Network of Excellence for Crypto...

Group additivity calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of aqueous amino acids, polypeptides and unfolded proteins as a function of temperature, pressure and ionization state J. M. Dick, D. E. LaRowe, and H. C. Helgeson Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, USA Received: 5 September 2005 – Accepted: 18 September 2005 – ...