A national catastrophic cyber-attack is coming, just like the unpredictability of an earthquake. This exploratory research looks at related demographics to respond such attack. The responses used were Technology Optimism and Cyber Self-efficacy. studied age, education level, surprise severity attack, gender, prior countermeasures awareness devastation surprise. Self-efficacy showed a significan...

Once a sign of modernization and growth, dams are often seen today as symbols of environmental and social devastation. Over 800,000 dams have been built worldwide to provide drinking water, flood control, hydropower, irrigation, navigation, and water storage. Dams do indeed provide these things,but at the cost of several adverse, unexpected effects: disruption of ecosystems, decline of fish sto...

African swine fever (ASF) has become the disease of most global concern since its second escape from Africa in 2007 resulted spread to five continents and consequent devastation industrial subsistence pig farming [...]