The Smart School concepts are introduced in Saudi Arabia (SA) for a long time and due to various factors still the progress in this direction is very little. In this paper various issues, limitations and constraints are discussed. By considering various real-time factors a runtime monitoring system with checker is presented. Various policies and rules are tested for a smooth performance of smar...

In this paper we redefine information security by extending its definition in three salient avenues: locale (beyond the boundary of an enterprise to include partner organizations), role (beyond the information custodians’ view to include information consumers’ and managers’ views), and resource (beyond technical dimensions to include managerial dimensions). Based on our definition, we develop a...

Linkage of data collected by large Canadian cohort studies with provincially managed administrative health databases can offer very interesting avenues for multidisciplinary and cost-effective health research in Canada. Successfully co-analyzing cohort data and administrative health data (AHD) can lead to research results capable of improving the health and well-being of Canadians and enhancing...

the rapidly expanding fields of pharmacogenomics and pharmacodiagnostics have presented the pathology laboratories with many challenges and opportunities. as custodians of patient tissues, these laboratories are in the logical position to perform biomolecular testing for proper management of patients. in order to meet these challenges, the pathology laboratories of the twenty-first century shou...

Respiratory epithelia fulfil multiple roles beyond that of gaseous exchange, also acting as primary custodians of lung sterility and inflammatory homeostasis. Inhaled fungal spores pose a continual antigenic, and potentially pathogenic, challenge to lung integrity against which the human respiratory mucosa has developed various tolerance and defence strategies. However, respiratory disease and ...

Personal health information (PHI) contained in email communications is governed by the same health information management legislation as PHI contained in health records. As a result, confi dentiality and privacy are important considerations if email is being used to communicate PHI to recipients who are not part of a secure internal network. Internet-based email systems generally do not provide...

The results of an ongoing interview study with custodians of historic photograph collections are reported. In particular the success or otherwise of recent digitisation projects is addressed, as well as the extent to which these projects have affected the long term management of the collections. We examine the effects of digitisation on the primary sources, their digitised surrogates and the re...

The paper presents a notional account of the challenges facing the introduction of English as an international lingua franca (ELF) curriculum in the state schools of the expanding circle, taking Greece as a case in point. It broadly delineates an ELF curriculum as one focusing on the skills necessary for carrying out successful communication involving non-native speakers and then highlights a s...

Health information custodians and network providers within the circle of care for a patient must meet certain legal obligations regarding the collection, access and disclosure of personal health information. We present a framework for consent and risk management that can be used to help manage a patient’s consent for releasing personal health information, and analyze the risk involved in handli...