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A Holistic Scada Security Standard For The Australian Context, Christopher Beggs Dec 2008

A Holistic Scada Security Standard For The Australian Context, Christopher Beggs

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems which control Australia’s critical infrastructure are currently demonstrating signs of vulnerabilities as they are being interconnected to corporate networks, essentially exposing them to malicious threats. This paper discusses the vulnerabilities associated with SCADA systems, as well as discussing various SCADA standards and initiatives that have been developed in recent years to mitigate such threats. The paper presents the requirement for a holistic SCADA security standard that is practical and feasible for each SCADA industry sector.

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Visualisation Of Critical Infrastructure Failure, W D. Wilde, M J. Warren Dec 2008

Visualisation Of Critical Infrastructure Failure, W D. Wilde, M J. Warren

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

The paper explores the complexity of critical infrastructure and critical infrastructure failure (CIF), real life examples are used to discuss the complexity involved. The paper then discusses what Visualisation is and how Visualisation can be applied to a security situation, in particular critical infrastructure. The paper concludes by discussing the future direction of the research.

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Media, Government And Manipulation: The Cases Of The Two Gulf Wars, William Hutchinson Dec 2008

Media, Government And Manipulation: The Cases Of The Two Gulf Wars, William Hutchinson

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

This paper explores the bias and manipulation of the Western mass media during the Gulf wars of 1991 and 2003. The tactics of compliance and the ethics of the press and journalists are examined. The need for a pluralist press is extolled.

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Central Bank Communication And Monetary Policy: The Case Of Central Bank Of Nigeria, Egbuna N. E. Dec 2008

Central Bank Communication And Monetary Policy: The Case Of Central Bank Of Nigeria, Egbuna N. E.

Bullion

The importance of concise communication in monetary policy making cannot be over emphasised . A g o o d communication of policy definitely strengthens the institutional independence of central banks and enhances the effectiveness of monetary policy. However, no one single method could fit all when it comes to designing good communication strategies because central banks face different constraints as they try to fine-tune their messages. With current reforms and financial liberalization, there is added impetus for increased communication between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), market operators, stakeholders and the public in general. Monetary policy needs to be explained …

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Electronic Banking In Nigeria: Problems And Prospects From The Consumer's Perspective, Agbada A.O Dec 2008

Electronic Banking In Nigeria: Problems And Prospects From The Consumer's Perspective, Agbada A.O

Bullion

This paper explores the adoption of electronic banking [e-banking] in Nigeria. It examines the problems and prospects of e-banking in Nigeria from the consumer's perspective. The research findings show that a number of problems ranging from human, operational and technical constraints hinder the maximum utilization of services provided through e-banking channels in Nigeria. However, the results from the study have also revealed that despite these problems, the rate of adoption of e-banking services in Nigeria is phenomenal as banks have recorded outstanding successes in some areas. Nigeria is a consuming nation and based on the experience from other sectors of …

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Five Decades Of Agricultural Policies In Nigeria: What Roles Has Statistics Played?, Akinboyo O. I Dec 2008

Five Decades Of Agricultural Policies In Nigeria: What Roles Has Statistics Played?, Akinboyo O. I

Bullion

All over the country and internationally, the publications of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) such as the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, the Statistical Bulletin, Economic and Financial Review, the Bullion and Nigeria: Major Economic and Banking Indicators and those of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have become a veritable source of data and reference materials on Nigeria. Without basic i n f o r m a t i o n o n e c o n o m i c developments, it would be very difficult for policy makers to assess economic performances. The f o …

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Quadrupedal Walking Algorithm For The 12-Tet Walker, Kirk A. Ogaard Dec 2008

Quadrupedal Walking Algorithm For The 12-Tet Walker, Kirk A. Ogaard

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Installments, Winter Break Issue, December 2008, Renee Montgomery Dec 2008

Installments, Winter Break Issue, December 2008, Renee Montgomery

Libraries' Newsletters

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The School Counselor As An Emerging Professional In The Japanese Educational System, Jeannine R. Studer Dec 2008

The School Counselor As An Emerging Professional In The Japanese Educational System, Jeannine R. Studer

International Education

The writer discusses the emergence of school counselors in Japan. She emphasizes that clinical psychologists are fulfilling the emerging school counselor role. She then discusses the emergence of school counselors in the U.S. and outlines disturbing influences in students' lives that concern school counselors in both countries. Finally, she considers whether disputes and issues that affected U.S. school counselors could act as a guide for their Japanese counterparts.

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Toward A Global Phd: Forces & Forms In Doctoral Education Worldwide, Jeffery P. Aper Dec 2008

Toward A Global Phd: Forces & Forms In Doctoral Education Worldwide, Jeffery P. Aper

International Education

This is a book review for Meresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund, eds. (2008) Toward a Global PhD: Forces & Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide.

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“Nobody Told Us About What Happened”: The Current State Of Holocaust Education In Romania, Thomas Misco Dec 2008

“Nobody Told Us About What Happened”: The Current State Of Holocaust Education In Romania, Thomas Misco

International Education

Using data obtained primarily from about 40 government officials and educators and from students and community members, the writer examined Holocaust education in Romania. He presents results on academic freedom, the education ministry's role, teacher training, class time and the macrocurriculum, content, the teacher, and universities and discusses contextual features. He then provides recommendations based on the results.

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“Why Are College Foreign Language Students’ Self-Efficacy, Attitude, And Motivation So Different?”, Pei-Hsuan Hsieh Dec 2008

“Why Are College Foreign Language Students’ Self-Efficacy, Attitude, And Motivation So Different?”, Pei-Hsuan Hsieh

International Education

Simply taking foreign language courses and being exposed to the language does not guarantee successful and positive learning experiences. When examining factors that influence foreign language learning, motivation should be considered. To extend current foreign language literature, this study integrated self-efficacy and Gardners' AMTB variables to the understanding of learner motivation and achievement. Participants were 249 undergraduate students learning Spanish, German, and French. Regression results suggested that self-efficacy, positive attitude, and anxiety were good predictors of language achievement. MANOVA results revealed that students' motivation levels differed significantly based on the following student differences: 1) group status (successful or unsuccessful test …

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A Comparative Study Of Intercultural And Global Competency Opportunities On American And Irish University Campuses, Jill C. Jurgens, Carrie Robbins-O’Connell Dec 2008

A Comparative Study Of Intercultural And Global Competency Opportunities On American And Irish University Campuses, Jill C. Jurgens, Carrie Robbins-O’Connell

International Education

The lack of intercultural competencies among students in higher education is one of the most significant issues facing higher education and society in general. As institutions of higher education embark on the journey of embracing the increasingly diverse student populations, some universities have revamped university mission statements to reflect their support for “creating and maintaining” a diverse student population and for graduating interculturally competent students. This study compared reports from the three participating universities (one university in the United States and two in Ireland) on four different variables regarding student diversity, student participation in study abroad programs, types of study …

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Service Learning In Overseas And Navajo Reservation Communities: Student Teachers’ Powerful Experiences Build Community Connections, Broaden Worldview, And Inform Classroom Practice, Laura L. Stachowski, Aaron Bodle, Michael Morrin Dec 2008

Service Learning In Overseas And Navajo Reservation Communities: Student Teachers’ Powerful Experiences Build Community Connections, Broaden Worldview, And Inform Classroom Practice, Laura L. Stachowski, Aaron Bodle, Michael Morrin

International Education

A study examined student teachers' service learning in Navajo Reservation and overseas communities. Participants were 88 student teachers attending Indiana University. Results revealed that student teachers' service learning experiences helped to build community links, contributed to broader worldviews, and informed classroom practice.

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Scratching The Surface: A Comparison Of Girl Soldiers From Three Geographic Regions Of The World, Carolyn R. Spellings Dec 2008

Scratching The Surface: A Comparison Of Girl Soldiers From Three Geographic Regions Of The World, Carolyn R. Spellings

International Education

Over 300,000 children are estimated to be conscripted participants in conflicts throughout the world. Depending on the particular armed group that employs child soldiers, girls represent 6 to 50% of child soldiers. Despite this prevalence of involvement, the experience of girls as soldiers in war and political conflict has rarely been investigated. In order to build a foundation for more focused study on girl soldier experiences, this literature review aims to provide a comprehensive report of girl soldiers throughout the world. The analysis focused on three aspects of conflict experience: (1) how girls become affiliated with armed groups; (2) their …

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Editorial Comments, Barbara Thayer-Bacon Dec 2008

Editorial Comments, Barbara Thayer-Bacon

International Education

This issue considers important educational research topics in a way that draws our attention to schools’ connections to the larger cultural context of diverse societies.

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Functional Monitoring Without Monotonicity, Chrisil Arackaparambil, Joshua Brody, Amit Chakrabarti Dec 2008

Functional Monitoring Without Monotonicity, Chrisil Arackaparambil, Joshua Brody, Amit Chakrabarti

Computer Science Technical Reports

The notion of distributed functional monitoring was recently introduced by Cormode, Muthukrishnan and Yi to initiate a formal study of the communication cost of certain fundamental problems arising in distributed systems, especially sensor networks. In this model, each of k sites reads a stream of tokens and is in communication with a central coordinator, who wishes to continuously monitor some function f of \sigma, the union of the k streams. The goal is to minimize the number of bits communicated by a protocol that correctly monitors f(\sigma), to within some small error. As in previous work, we focus on a …

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Digital Image Ballistics From Jpeg Quantization: A Followup Study, Hany Farid Dec 2008

Digital Image Ballistics From Jpeg Quantization: A Followup Study, Hany Farid

Computer Science Technical Reports

The lossy JPEG compression scheme employs a quantization table that controls the amount of compression achieved. Because different cameras typically employ different tables, a comparison of an image's quantization scheme to a database of known cameras affords a simple technique for confirming or denying an image's source. This report describes the analysis of quantization tables extracted from 1,000,000 images downloaded from Flickr.com.

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Antitrust And Copyright Collectives – An Economic Analysis, Adrianna Zabłocka Dec 2008

Antitrust And Copyright Collectives – An Economic Analysis, Adrianna Zabłocka

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

The activity of the copyright collecting societies had been scrutinized by many antitrust authorities. The paper presents the decision taken by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), which deals with abusing practices of Polish copyright collective society – ZAiKS. The paper concentrates on the economic aspects of the decision from the President of UOKiK.

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2007 Ec Competition Law And Sector-Specific Regulatory Case Law Developments With A Nexus To Poland, Krzysztof Kuik Dec 2008

2007 Ec Competition Law And Sector-Specific Regulatory Case Law Developments With A Nexus To Poland, Krzysztof Kuik

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

To the best of the author’s knowledge, YARS is the first English language publication, which aims to systematically present the developments in competition law and sector-specific regulatory case law with direct relevance to Poland. This paper, devoted to EC antitrust and regulatory case law, will be divided into separate sections covering competition law sensu stricto (antitrust and merger control), State aid and sector-specific regulation. The reviews presented reflect the development of each case, so both administrative decisions and judgments (where available) are addressed under the same heading. This contribution aims to present an overview of significant cases decided by, or …

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2007 Antitrust And Regulatory Developments In Legislation In Poland, Marek Stefaniuk Dec 2008

2007 Antitrust And Regulatory Developments In Legislation In Poland, Marek Stefaniuk

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

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The Legal Status Of An Undertaking – Should Local Governments Be Treated More Favourably In Relation To The Penalties For Breaching Polish Antitrust Law? Case Comment To The Judgment Of The Supreme Court Of 5 January 2007 – City Ostrołęka (Ref. No. Iii Sk 16/06), Maciej Bernatt Dec 2008

The Legal Status Of An Undertaking – Should Local Governments Be Treated More Favourably In Relation To The Penalties For Breaching Polish Antitrust Law? Case Comment To The Judgment Of The Supreme Court Of 5 January 2007 – City Ostrołęka (Ref. No. Iii Sk 16/06), Maciej Bernatt

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

No abstract provided.

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The Legal Status Of Foreign Undertakings – Could Undertakings With A Registered Seat Abroad Be Regarded As Undertakings Entitled To File A Request For The Institution Of Antimonopoly Proceedings Under Polish Antitrust Law? Case Comments To The Judgment Of The Supreme Court Of 10 May 2007 – Netherlands Antilles (Ref. No. Iii Sk 24/06), Rajmund Molski Dec 2008

The Legal Status Of Foreign Undertakings – Could Undertakings With A Registered Seat Abroad Be Regarded As Undertakings Entitled To File A Request For The Institution Of Antimonopoly Proceedings Under Polish Antitrust Law? Case Comments To The Judgment Of The Supreme Court Of 10 May 2007 – Netherlands Antilles (Ref. No. Iii Sk 24/06), Rajmund Molski

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

No abstract provided.

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Total Station Mapping: Practical Examples From Alta And Baja California, Tsim D. Schneider, Lee M. Panich Dec 2008

Total Station Mapping: Practical Examples From Alta And Baja California, Tsim D. Schneider, Lee M. Panich

Faculty Publications

The use of electronic total data stations for mapping archaeological sites is examined through two California case studies. Mission Santa Catalina, located in the high desert of Baja California, and a cluster of three shell mounds, located in a forest in the San Francisco Bay area, represent two different examples of organizing and implementing a mapping program using a total station. In this article, we will discuss the basic use of total stations for mapping archaeological sites and provide an overview of the process of creating digital maps from data obtained using a total station. The two case studies will …

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Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network Dec 2008

Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Checkup

No abstract provided.

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Plant Community Diversity And Composition Provide Little Resistance To Juniperus Encroachment, Amy C. Ganguli, David M. Engle, Paul M. Mayer, Eric C. Hellgren Dec 2008

Plant Community Diversity And Composition Provide Little Resistance To Juniperus Encroachment, Amy C. Ganguli, David M. Engle, Paul M. Mayer, Eric C. Hellgren

Publications

Widespread encroachment of the fire-intolerant species Juniperus virginiana L. into North American grasslands and savannahs where fire has largely been removed has prompted the need to identify mechanisms driving J. virginiana encroachment. We tested whether encroachment success of J. virginiana is related to plant species diversity and composition across three plant communities. We predicted J. virginiana encroachment success would (i) decrease with increasing diversity, and (ii) J. virginiana encroachment success would be unrelated to species composition. We simulated encroachment by planting J. virginiana seedlings in tallgrass prairie, old-field grassland, and upland oak forest. We used J. virginiana survival and growth …

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From Elastic Deformation To Terminal Flow Of A Monodisperse Entangled Melt In Uniaxial Extension, Yangyang Wang, Shi-Qing Wang Dec 2008

From Elastic Deformation To Terminal Flow Of A Monodisperse Entangled Melt In Uniaxial Extension, Yangyang Wang, Shi-Qing Wang

College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering

Using a well-entangled monodisperse styrene-butadiene random-copolymer (SBR) melt as a model system, we illustrate generic features of uniaxial extension behavior that may be shared by all well-entangled thermoplastic and elastomeric materials. Depending on the imposed extensional rate, the same sample may behave like a viscous liquid or an elastic "solid." Analogous to the recently revealed shear inhomogeneity, the SBR melt inevitably undergoes cohesive failure in the form of sample breakage whenever the Weissenberg number is much greater than unity, making it challenging to reach steady state. In the elastic deformation regime where the external deformation rate is faster than Rouse …

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The Role Of Causal Processes In The Neutral And Nearly Neutral Theories, Michael R. Dietrich, Roberta L. Millstein Dec 2008

The Role Of Causal Processes In The Neutral And Nearly Neutral Theories, Michael R. Dietrich, Roberta L. Millstein

Dartmouth Scholarship

The neutral and nearly neutral theories of molecular evolution are sometimes characterized as theories about drift alone, where drift is described solely as an outcome, rather than a process. We argue, however, that both selection and drift, as causal processes, are integral parts of both theories. However, the nearly neutral theory explicitly recognizes alleles and/or molecular substitutions that, while engaging in weakly selected causal processes, exhibit outcomes thought to be characteristic of random drift. A narrow focus on outcomes obscures the significant role of weakly selected causal processes in the nearly neutral theory.

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Can Rote Learners Be Transformed Into Critical Thinkers Through A Concept – Mapping Intervention?, Raisa B. Gul, Shanaz Hussein Cassum, Khairulnissa Ajani Dec 2008

Can Rote Learners Be Transformed Into Critical Thinkers Through A Concept – Mapping Intervention?, Raisa B. Gul, Shanaz Hussein Cassum, Khairulnissa Ajani

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

Critical thinking is an important outcome of higher education in any discipline. International literature reveals that teaching strategies—such as reflections, self-directed learning, questioning, and concept mapping—which ask for active engagement of students in their learning, foster critical thinking. Social context of the learning environment, and the instructor’s competence and approach to teaching also influence students’ critical thinking abilities. Contrary to the required teaching practices, didactic teaching and rote learning are still prevalent in most teaching institutions and disciplines in Pakistan. The focus of this paper is to report on the process and findings of a quasi-experimental study in which students …

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Piles Under Earthquake Loads, Shamsher Prakash, Vijay K. Puri Dec 2008

Piles Under Earthquake Loads, Shamsher Prakash, Vijay K. Puri

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Piles are preferred type of foundation for supporting structures in seismic areas. their performance is affected by soil, pile and earthquake related parameters. in non-liquefying soils, the shear modulus may degrade, and material damping may increase with increasing strain/displacement. in liquefying soils, the lateral ground displacement may lead to increased lateral loads and moments on the pile leading to pile failure in bending. the loss of lateral support can also lead to buckling type failure. These issues for pile design in seismic areas are examined. © 2008 ASCE.

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