Passive Consumers, Vulnerabilities and Public Policies

Vulnerabilities of Passive Internet Threat Monitors

Passive Internet monitoring is a powerful tool for measuring and characterizing interesting network activity like worms or distributed denial of service attacks. By employing statistical analysis on the captured network traffic, Internet threat monitors gain valuable insight into the nature of Internet threats. In the past, these monitors have been successfully used not only to detect DoS attac...

[Epidemiology and public policies].

The present essay deals with the relation between epidemiology and public policies, highlighting the epidemiology position in the public health field, analyzing the impact of public policies over epidemiological profile and contributions from epidemiology to the lay down, implementation and evaluation of public health policies. In the first title, the essay debates the links between the epidemi...

Complexity in Mathematical Models of Public Health Policies: A Guide for Consumers of Models

Sanjay Basu and colleagues explain how models are increasingly used to inform public health policy yet readers may struggle to evaluate the quality of models. All models require simplifying assumptions, and there are tradeoffs between creating models that are more "realistic" versus those that are grounded in more solid data. Indeed, complex models are not necessarily more accurate or reliable ...

Contingent Preannounced Pricing Policies with Strategic Consumers

Public policies and motorcycle safety.

Numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of alcohol and traffic policies in reducing automobile crashes and fatalities, but only a few have analyzed the impact of state-specific policies on motorcycle safety. Given the growing popularity and inherent safety risks of motorcycle riding, this study provides a comprehensive investigation of both fatal and non-fatal injuries. State-level lon...