Cyber risks are an important point on the business agenda in every company, but they are difficult to assess due to the absence of reliable data and profound analyses. To improve this situation, we identify cyber losses from an operational risk database and analyze these with methods from the field of actuarial science. Specifically, we apply operational risk models in order to yield consistent...

background bladder reconstruction in the pediatric population is challenging for many reasons, including perioperative complications and readmissions. objectives on a national scale, determine readmission rates at 30, 60 and 90 days after bladder reconstruction in a pediatric population over a 7-year period, evaluating the influence of hospital and patient-specific variables. patients and metho...

Real-time ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) of enterprise data is one of the foremost features of next generation Business Intelligence (BI 2.0). This paper presents a proposal for loading operational data in real time using a Data Warehouse (DW) architecture with faster processing time than current approaches. Distributed database techniques, like derived horizontal fragmentation in...

Abbreviations: MDR: Multi-Drug Resistant; ATCC: American Type Culture Collection; NBPC 30: Negative Breakpoint Combo 30; MIC: Minimum Inhibitory Concentration; OTUs: Operational Taxonomic Units; NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information; MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis; PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction; RDP: Ribosomal Database Project; HBMEC: Human Brain Microvascular End...

After 17 years of practical experience in production and application of analog orthophotos using analytical differential rectification, the BLVA started the operational use of digital orthophotography in 1996. The main application up to now is the derivation of orthophotomaps statewide, done completely through digital image processing. The production steps are explained and an outlook is given ...

This paper introduces the Trust Obstacle Mitigation Model (TOMM), which uses the concept of trust assumptions to derive security obstacles, and the concept of misuse cases to model obstacles. The TOMM allows a development team to anticipate malicious behaviour with respect to the operational database application and to document a priori how this malicious behaviour should be mitigated.

Further exploration of confinement trends in the evolving International Stellarator Confinement Database is reported. The impact of configurations on confinement is confirmed and the performance close to operational limits discussed. Model comparison techniques allow for tests of physical models against data. Correlations of configuration-describing parameters against an empirical confinement e...

Introduction The Bristol Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit run multiple cardiac surgery trials in the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI), where approximately 1600 cardiac surgery operations take place annually. We will describe the operational challenges of managing the recruiting process across a range of studies and the database management solution we have developed to help us maximise recruitment.

Transactions within a mobile database management system face many restrictions. These cannot afford unlimited delays or participate in multiple retry attempts for execution. The proposed embedded concurrency control (ECC) techniques provide support on three counts, namely—to enhance concurrency, to overcome problems due to heterogeneity, and to allocate priority to transactions that originate f...

Submetric satellite imagery (Pleiades, GeoEye) offers advantages for map update purposes, e.g. an interesting ground resolution, a good reactivity and the ability to capture wide areas. Experiments on the use of such stereoscopic images for 2D change detection among building objects of GIS topographic database are presented in this paper. Two approaches have been tested. The first one extracts ...