Wave-up call

A clear 'wake-up call' from Korea

*Correspondence: Tae-Il Kim (Editor-in-Chief) Department of Periodontology, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-749, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-2-2072-2642 Fax: +82-2-744-1349 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) first occurred in Jordan in April 2012, began spreading in Saudi Arabia as of September 2012, and recently emerged in Ko...

Designing attacks on SIP call set-up

Many protocols running over the Internet are neither formalised, nor formally analysed. The amount of documentation for telecommunication protocols used in real-life applications is huge, while the available analysis methods and tools require precise and clear-cut protocol clauses. A manual formalisation of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used in Voice over IP (VoIP) applications is not f...

Elder abuse--a wake up call.

Challenging Safety Regulation – a Wake-up Call

In presenting a framework for tackling these issues, the paper examines current safety practices. In particular it challenges, from a theoretical perspective, and by reference to recent research, two common misconceptions that safety is largely a matter of equipment reliability and that process-based assurance can provide adequate evidence of system safety. It argues that failure to address the...

A wake-up call for nutrition labelling.

In 2011, the European Union issued a new regulation on the provision of information on food for consumers (1). The regulation includes new directives for the provision of nutrition information on processed foods. In response, a number of food manufacturers and retailers recently committed themselves to harmonize the nutrition information on their products (2). In the USA in 2011, the Institute ...