Mitigating water shortages in a multiple risk environment

Mitigating Fraud Risk in the Card-Not-Present Environment

The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta convened a meeting of the Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup (MPIW) in November 2015 to discuss payments in the card-not-present (CNP) environment. Not only are consumers increasingly using mobile devices to initiate CNP payments; but the e-commerce fraud rate in the U.S. is expected to increase significantly as EMV2 chip card migration progresses...

Assessing and Mitigating Disclosure Risk with Multiple Record Linkage

This study examines privacy disclosure risks when multiple records in a dataset are associated with the same individual. Existing data privacy approaches typically assume that each individual in a dataset corresponds to a single record, which tends to underestimate the disclosure risks in the multiple-record problems. We propose a novel privacy approach, which uses a measure called g-balance to...

World gears up to water shortages

Earlier this year, Sydney officially opened its new water desalination plant, the largest so far in Australia and driven by renewable wind power. It is the third to open in the country but will soon be overtaken by further new desalination plants. Australia's response to the growing demand for water and the increasing scarcity and unpredictability of conventional supplies is being echoed around...

Environmental Risk Factors in Multiple Sclerosis: A Narrative Review

Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the chronic autoimmune diseases and a progressive disease of the central nervous system that have unknown causes. Objective This study aims to review the environmental risk factors of MS. Methods In this review study, a search was conducted in databases such as PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar and MagIran on related studies published i...

Soil water regime and water concervation efficiency in a non-irrigated semi-arid environment