one of the import indices of food security evaluation is food import capacity index. ratio of total exports to food imports is often thought to be a measure of the capacity of a country to finance its food imports using revenues from exports of goods and services. this study investigates food import capacity effects on rural households food security by calculated ahfci (aggregate household food...

Version v1.0 Status Final Dissemination Level PP Nature P Keywords predictive security analysis, analysis of process behavior, security monitoring, security assessment tools Reviewers Luigi Coppolino (Epsilon)

cash transfer (cts) is an increasingly popular social protection mechanism used by many developing countries to improve the food security and nutritional status of lower socio-economic groups. this paper is a review of the literature regarding the impact of ct programs on the food security of recipient households in the developing countries, including iran. we looked for all original studies, p...

Critical infrastructures remain vulnerable to cyber attack despite a raft of post-9/l] legislation focused on cyber security in critical infrastructures. An emerging discipline known as the "economics of information security" may provide a partial solution in the form of a hypothetical market that trades "exploit derivatives, " a modified futures contract tied to cyber security events. This pap...

Neuroethics and National Security Turhan Canli a , Susan Brandon b , William Casebeer c , Philip J. Crowley d , Don DuRousseau e , Henry T. Greely f & Alvaro Pascual-Leone g a Stony Brook University, b Yale University, c United States Air Force, NATO Military Headquarters, d Center for American Progress, e Human Bionics LLC, f Stanford University, g Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deacon...

Traditionally, national security has been narrowly defined as the preservation of the state from physical threats. Still, emerging diseases and their pandemic potential pose perhaps an even greater national security threat, particularly in this era of globalization when disease can spread more rapidly than in previous eras. Thirty four percent of all deaths worldwide are now attributable to inf...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...