Brief communication: Critical infrastructure impacts of the 2021 mid-July western European flood event

the effect of using critical discourse analytical tools on the improvement of the learners level of critical thinking in reading comprehension

?it is of utmost priority for an experienced teacher to train the mind of the students, and enable them to think critically and correctly. the most important question here is that how to develop such a crucial ability? this study examines a new way to the development of critical thinking utilizing critical discourse analytical tools. to attain this goal, two classes of senior english la...

Mid-term Perspectives for the Western/Central European Electricity Market

The restructuring process of electricity markets in Europe started in the late 1990s and is still going on. This process was triggered by the Directive 96/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity (EC, 1997). This article will analyse the recent developments in the liberalised Western and Central European electricity marke...

European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection

The European Perspective of Telecommunications as a Critical Infrastructure

This paper attempts to analyze the degree to which the telecommunications sector is regarded as a critical infrastructure at the European level. Taking into account a new categorization of telecommunications applications and infrastructure perspectives, a new matrix-based classification method is proposed to clarify the protection approaches of policy makers and telecommunications asset owners ...

Critical Infrastructure Infomation Security: Impacts of Identity and Related Crimes

The physical and digital security of a nation’s critical infrastructure is necessary for its citizens, commerce and their public and private owners’ to conduct successful business transactions. A complicating factor towards this security is the multi-jurisdictional nature of some critical infrastructure assets e.g., telecommunications or financial systems. Information systems (IS) and informati...