Rubin and Greer stated that “The single most important factor of your firewall’s security is how you configure it.” [18]. However, firewall configuration is known to be difficult to get right. In particular domains, such as SCADA networks, while there are best practice standards that help, an overlooked component is the specification of firewall reporting policies. Our research tackles this que...

We tested the effects of an observational intervention (Greer & Singer-Dudek, 2008) on establishing children's books as conditioned reinforcers using a delayed multiple baseline design. Three preschool students with mild language and developmental delays served as the participants. Prior to the intervention, books did not function as reinforcers for any of the participants. The observational in...

THE past 40 years have seen the growth of an extensive literature on the course and outcome of the neuroses. A comprehensive review of the subject by Ernst, Kind and Rotach-Fuchs (1968) provides over 1,000 references. While many of these investigations were concerned with the evaluation of treatment methods, others focused on what has been called the natural history of neurotic illness (Greer a...

This note advances a family of poverty measures, Πα, which are derived as simple, normalized Minkowski distance functions. The Πα indices turn out to be the αth roots of the corresponding Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pα indices. The re-calibration of Pα in terms of Πα could have certain possible advantages, which are reviewed in the note. While the Πα indices are not decomposable in the ordinari...

Abstract We demonstrate, through separation of variables and estimates from the semiclassical analysis of the Schrödinger operator, that the eigenvalues of an elliptic operator defined on a compact hypersurface in Rn can be found by solving an elliptic eigenvalue problem in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ Rn. The latter problem is solved using standard finite element methods on the Cartesian grid. We also...

The subject of natural resources and environment under capitalism (2) is distinguished by its absence from the list of time-honored topics of inquiry on the left. I know of only a handful o f academic contributions in recent years as part of the revival of Marxist and related radical echolarehip. (See e.g. Enzenberger, 1974; England 6 Bluestone, 1971; Mumy, 1974; DiNorcia, 1974; Edel, 1973; Per...

and sexually transmitted infections among HIV positive men Jose Pablo Heudebert, BS; C. Maya Tong, BSc; Ashutosh Tamhane, MD, MSPH; Edward Hook III, MD; Nicholas Van Wagoner, MD, PhD; Jodie Dionne-Odom, MD; James Raper, DSN, CRNP, JD, FAANP; Greer A. Burkholder, MD; Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Van...

Infected Men Who Have Sex with Men C. Maya Tong, BSc; Jose Pablo Heudebert, BS; Ashutosh Tamhane, MD, MSPH; Edward Hook III, MD; Nicholas Van Wagoner, MD, PhD; Jodie Dionne-Odom, MD; James Raper, DSN, CRNP, JD, FAANP; Greer A. Burkholder, MD; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Bios...

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science studies provide country-level data for tracking changes in student achievement over time. In this paper the author has developed a method for identifying and monitoring trends in student achievement above or below any specified cut-point on these tests. The method involved the use of the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke indices, as well as a modif...