BACKGROUND Two forms of impulsivity, rash impulsiveness and reward sensitivity, have been proposed to reflect aspects of frontal lobe functioning and promote substance use. The present study examined these two forms of impulsivity as well as frontal lobe symptoms in relation to risky drinking by university students. METHODS University undergraduates aged 18-26years completed the Alcohol Use D...

Digital Rights Managements (DRM) systems often must manage persistent state, which includes protected content, an audit trail, content usage counts, certificates and decryption keys. Ideally, persistent state that has monetary value should be stored in a physically secure server. However, frequently the persistent state may need to be stored in a hostile environment. For example, for good perfo...

BACKGROUND Surgical mortality audit is an important tool for quality assurance and professional development but little is known about the impact of such activity on professional practice at the individual surgeon level. This paper reports the findings of a survey conducted with a self-selected cohort of surgeons in Queensland, Australia, on their experience of participating in the audit and its...

BACKGROUND Although absolute risk of death associated with raised blood pressure increases with age, the benefits of treatment are greater in older patients. However, fewer patients in this group are identified, treated, and controlled. AIM To evaluate the impact of the provision of different levels of feedback on identification, treatment, and control of older patients with hypertension. D...

Audit logs provide information about historical states of computer systems. They also contain highly valuable data that can be used by law enforcement in forensic investigations. Thus, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of audit logs is of vital importance. An ideal security mechanism for audit logging must also satisfy security properties such as forwardsecurity (compromise resiliency), c...

Conventional host-based and network-based intrusion and misuse detection systems have concentrated on detecting network-based and internal attacks, but little work has addressed host-based detection of low-level network attacks. A major reason for this is the misuse detection system’s dependence on audit data and the absence of low-level network data in audit trails. This work defines low-level...

INTRODUCTION / BACKGROUND: Audit requirements provide for software quality assurance and can be performed in different moments of its lifecycle. Functional and Non-Functional requirements relate each other at least once but in many cases at a higher rate, causing dependency and correlation effects that may increase the complexity of audit work. OBJECTIVES: Discuss methods to aid auditors for a ...

Last year in this journal Hopkins' reviewed the various approaches to "medical audit", and looked at how such audit is likely to develop over the next few years. The essence of his article seems to be that medical audit, if successful, should improve the quality of care. However, Hopkins can provide no evidence that any of the three approaches to medical audit which he outlines achieves this ob...