Online privacy notices are supposed to act as the primary mechanism to inform users about the data practices of online services. In practice, users ignore notices as they are too long and complex to read. Instead, users rely on formed expectations to determine with which site they feel comfortable interacting. Mismatches between actual practices and a user’s expectations may result in users exp...

Increasing flood risk, salinization and waterlogging threaten the lives livelihoods of more than 35 million people in Bangladesh’s coastal zone. While planning models have long been used to inform investments water infrastructure, they frequently overlook interacting risks, impacts on poor local context. We address this gap by developing applying a stochastic-optimization model simulate impact ...

Security breaches on the socio-technical systems organizations depend on cost the latter billions of dollars of losses each year. Although information security is a growing concern, most organizations deploy technical security measures to prevent security attacks, overlooking social and organizational threats and the risks faced because of them. In this paper, we propose a method to information...

While nonparametric analyses of bivariate failure times under independent censoring have been widely studied, nonparametric analyses of bivariate competing risks data have not been investigated. Such analyses are important in familial association studies, where multiple interacting failure types may violate the independent censoring assumption. We develop nonparametric estimators for the bivari...

Abstract This research contributes to the ongoing debate on relationship between agency autonomy and organizational interaction. A comparative design that includes managers in Norway Sweden describing interaction, measures used their perceived quality, is applied. Based observed significant country-related effects, a main conclusion strong formal safeguards of appear produce positive views The ...

background: injuries or pains occurred at various body's joints, ligaments, muscles, nerves, tendons, limbs, back and neck are classified as musculoskeletal disorders (msds). a single forceful exertion or repeated exposure to force, vibration or awkward posture can result in msds. this study was carried out by evaluating the relevant physical measurements of class b ambulance used in malaysia. ...

The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk of adult asthma in relation to certain occupational exposures. The study was designed as a case-control study in Göteborg, including 321 subjects with asthma, born between 1926 and 1970. Controls (n=1,459) were randomly selected from the same area from registers of the 1986 population. Questionnaire information was collected in 1996, and includ...

Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) help defend host genomes against germline transposons. In this issue of Cell, Khurana et al. show how alterations in the piRNA-encoding loci within a single generation allow a naive fly genome to overcome the initially insurmountable challenge imposed by a newly encountered mobile element.

Inlet efficiency is a requirement for characterizing the flow transfers between surface and sewer flow during rain events. The dual drainage approach is based on the joint analysis of both upper and lower drainage levels, and the flow transfer is one of the relevant elements to define properly this joint behaviour. This paper presents the results of an experimental and numerical investigation a...