IS security threats have increased significantly in recent years. We identified the gaps between manager perceptions of IS security threats and the security countermeasures adopted by firms by collecting empirical data from 109 Taiwanese enterprises. Industry type and organizational use of IT were seen as the two factors that affected the motivation of firms to adopt security countermeasures, b...

Conservation is ultimately about safeguarding biodiversity by arresting and reversing the impacts of threatening processes. Although data on the distributions of species are increasingly well resolved, the spatial distributions of threats to species are poorly understood. We mapped the distributions of eight major threats to Australia’s threatened plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates using th...

Ensuring safety and security of Naval ships, at port and at sea, against external threats is of paramount importance. Equally so, increased survivability based on improved recoverability from major incidents is of concern. The above gives rise to continued improvements in the designs of various advanced technologies that collectively cater for Situational Awareness and Battle Damage Control Sys...

With the growing demand for e-learning all over the world, constant evaluation ofits curriculumis incumbent upon institutions which aimto be competitive in thismarket.  To this end, the present study employs SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, opportunities, Threats) analysis as the tool for the identification and prioritization of the gaps of the current e-TEFL(Electronic Teaching English as a Foreig...

Through combined, integrated web and email protection, organisations will be in a better position to protect personal and sensitive corporate information from online and internal threats When the cloud improves security …move protection to where the threats are Executive summary Malware threats are on the rise and the attacks are growing in sophistication and complexity. Individuals and specifi...

introduction:with increasing threats of weapons of mass destruction (wmd) in future war especially biological threats against our country necessity of using novel technologies in crisis management against new warfare’s is very important. passive defense as a peaceful and preventive strategy without any warfare is able to not only monitor the prospect of new warfare specially biological warfare ...

our food security, forests, water, land rights, farmers and indigenous peoples from the aggressive march of agrofuel developments, which are devouring our land and resources at an unbelievable scale and speed. " The petition describes the negative impact of agrofuel programs in several African states. In Tanzania, thousands of farmers have been evicted from their land to make way for large scal...