Food safety has become an important food quality attribute.Both food industry and authorities need to be able to trace back and to authenticate food products and raw materials used for food production to comply with legislation and to meet the food safety and food quality requirements. Traceability is increasingly becoming a necessary task in the food industry which is mainly driven by recent f...

In this paper, tests are made for the effect that the spatial distribution of welfare and Food Stamp caseloads may have on caseload change in the South. Spatial effects are captured by contrasting caseload trends overtime in metropolitan (urban) counties and nonmetropolitan (rural) counties within two southern states, Mississippi and South Carolina. Tests for a location effect on caseload chang...

Br ie fin g Pa pe r N ov em be r 20 01 This Briefing Paper reviews the ways in which the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen has focussed international attention on the significance of fundamental human freedoms and human rights for development theory and practice. In the past, dominant approaches have often characterised development in terms of GDP per capita; food security in ...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies permit employees to use personal devices to access organizational information. Users gain convenience from the ability to work in geographically diverse locations, while organizations gain the benefit of increased productivity and reduced information technology expense. However, these symbiotic benefits come at a cost. Organizations’ security boundaries are...

As people use mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) more and more in daily life, their desire grows to use the same devices at work. In response to this demand, many firms are considering to offer BYOD programs allowing their employees to bring their own devices to work and use them for business purposes. This study analyses how employees’ perceive the benefits and risk associated with BY...

Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is a trend introduced by a large IT corporation in 2009 realised as a consequence of the consumerization of Information Technology. BYOD is described as the phenomenon of using personal mobile devices connected to corporate networks to perform work. This study aims to understand consumerization of IT and BYOD in the Tertiary Education sector, particularly the contex...

Question-driven Audience Response Systems (ARSs) are in the focus of research since the 1960s. Since then, the technology has changed and therefore systems have evolved too. This work is about conception and implementation of the web-based ARS RealFeedback which uses the principle of bring your own device (BYOD). A state-of-the-art analysis compares the features of existing web-based ARSs. The ...

Kenya has experienced several rabies outbreaks since the first rabies case was confirmed in a dog in the outskirts of Nairobi in 1912 (Hudson, 1944). Dog vaccinations, started in the late 1950s in conjunction with dog movement restrictions, appeared to have effectively controlled the disease so that by the early 1970s it was virtually eliminated in most parts of the country (Kariuki and Ngulo, ...

Because of the recent increase of mobile device adoption in the workplace, and the numerous security risks inherent in mobile device use, there is a growing need for organizations to craft mobile device security policies that will have a positive effect on employees’ intention to comply. Using prospect theory, developed by Kahneman and Tversky (1979), and the framing effects associated with thi...

Most employers believe blind and visually impaired people (BVIP) cannot perform essential job tasks and require expensive accommodation. The emergence of smartphones, enabling applications, screen readers, and Internet access provide a personal assistive mobile technology (PAMT) bundle which dramatically extends sensory capabilities for BVIP. PAMT should afford new workplace capabilities. Howev...