one of the import indices of food security evaluation is food import capacity index. ratio of total exports to food imports is often thought to be a measure of the capacity of a country to finance its food imports using revenues from exports of goods and services. this study investigates food import capacity effects on rural households food security by calculated ahfci (aggregate household food...

Critical infrastructures remain vulnerable to cyber attack despite a raft of post-9/l] legislation focused on cyber security in critical infrastructures. An emerging discipline known as the "economics of information security" may provide a partial solution in the form of a hypothetical market that trades "exploit derivatives, " a modified futures contract tied to cyber security events. This pap...

Neuroethics and National Security Turhan Canli a , Susan Brandon b , William Casebeer c , Philip J. Crowley d , Don DuRousseau e , Henry T. Greely f & Alvaro Pascual-Leone g a Stony Brook University, b Yale University, c United States Air Force, NATO Military Headquarters, d Center for American Progress, e Human Bionics LLC, f Stanford University, g Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deacon...

Traditionally, national security has been narrowly defined as the preservation of the state from physical threats. Still, emerging diseases and their pandemic potential pose perhaps an even greater national security threat, particularly in this era of globalization when disease can spread more rapidly than in previous eras. Thirty four percent of all deaths worldwide are now attributable to inf...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...

The study highlights the importance to develop the national economy through assuring energy security. The study aims to analyze how to develop renewable energy sources, determine the main priorities of Ukraine’s national security policy and discover novel ways of assuring energy security due to developing the industry of renewable energy in the light of environmental safety, energy conservation...