Sclerosing mesenteritis (SM) is a rare, idiopathic disorder of unknown aetiology that involves the adipose tissue of the mesentery, being characterized by chronic and non-specific fibrous inflammation. Patients usually present with non-specific clinical manifestations, such as abdominal pain and diarrhoea. The diagnosis of SM is difficult and it can be definitely established only by means of su...

The recent debate about 'effective control' rather than 'complete eradication' for polio has put the whole Global Polio Initiative into question. The implications for this are indeed daunting, more so for the Indian Sub-Continent, which hosts a huge chunk of the global polio load every year. The tremendous success achieved in combating polio during the previous decade in India and Pakistan is r...

Firms often disclose information security risk factors in public filings such as 10-K reports. The internal information associated with disclosures may be positive or negative. In this paper, we are interested in evaluating how the nature of security risk factors disclosed, which is believed to represent the internal information regarding information security, is associated with future breach a...

Wang, Ta-Wei. Ph.D., Purdue University, August, 2009. Essays on Information Security from an Economic Perspective. Major Professors: Jackie Rees and Karthik Kannan. Information security risks are becoming a critical issue to organizations given the significant impact of security related incidents. In this dissertation, we seek to further our understanding of how information security incidents a...

The necessity of the companies and organizations to adapt the technological changes of the computer science takes to formulated key questions: How to measure the security of my organization?, What type of Computer Science Security needs my company, financial organization, or government? Did my financial organization counts with aspects of computer science security in the correct areas? What new...