Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) represents a particularly relevant issue worldwide. Moreover, the evolution of technologies at the disposal of criminal activities is leading to an increasing need for a technological basis and relevant knowledge to improve security capabilities. Especially, more work has to be done in defining a security architecture that takes into account cascading ef...

The present study sought to investigate the effect of Critical Language Awareness (CLA) on upper-intermediate EFL learners’ writing ability. Thirty-two EFL learners were selected based on their scores on a placement test and were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. In addition to the placement test, a five-paragraph essay writing test was administered to assess the partici...

Recent publications have highlighted alternative analytical thinking strategies to inform and facilitate improved intelligence analysis. Red teaming, fast and slow thinking, divergent thinking, as well as other strategies have been identified as essential to understanding today's radically different, nontraditional landscape that analysts and collectors are expected to operate in: to understand...

BACKGROUND Cultural Respect Encompassing Simulation Training (CREST) is a learning program that uses simulation to provide health professional students and practitioners with strategies to communicate sensitively with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients. It consists of training modules with a cultural competency evaluation framework and CALD simulated patients to interact with...

Joseph Conrad is a Polish born English writer who immigrated or expatriated to many different cultural backgrounds. He considered marginal man, restless figure all through his life, and man in exile, without root of no belonging. The identity once was one Conrad’s overriding concerns, that dominated much personal public life. Poland, but not spiritually bred educated by culture; he finally sett...