The authors employ a seeded, ranking type Delphi to answer the following research question: how do each of the major stakeholder groups within organizations (representing both strategic and operational levels) conceptualize the risks associated with IT in operations? Using three expert panels drawn from Big 4 IT audit groups and Fortune 1000 business/IT managers, we identify the IT risks most s...

This research in progress paper introduces a research initiative focusing on bank employee risk behaviour to mitigate IT operational risks in Austrian banks. The study focuses on the role of IT risk culture and internal controls in relation to employee risk behaviour and the effectiveness of different awareness building practices in banking companies in response to international banking regulat...

Contrary to previous studies treating divorce as a couple’s decision, we make a distinction between ‘his’, ‘her’, and ‘their’ divorce by using information about who initiated divorce. Using competing risk analysis, we re-examine four well-known determinants of divorce: (i) the wife’s employment, (ii) the financial situation of the household, (iii) the presence of children, and (iv) the quality ...

Traditional Shannon’s information theory describes the overall amount of information, without distinguishing between useful and unimportant information. Such a distinction is needed, e.g., in privacy protection, where it is crucial to protect important information while it is not that crucial to protect unimportant information. In this paper, we show how Shannon’s definition can be modified so ...

This paper describes our system participated in the Document and Passage Retrieval Subtasks at the NTCIR-5 Patent Retrieval Task. The purpose of these subtasks was the invalidity search, in which a patent application including a target claim is used to search documents that can invalidate the demand in the claim. Our system is characterized by the structure analysis for both target claim and en...

Low vitamin D status has been associated with a number of chronic conditions, particularly in older adults. The aim of this study was to identify how best to maintain optimum vitamin D status throughout the year in this high-risk population. The main objectives of the study were to assess seasonal vitamin D status; identify the main determinants of vitamin D status; determine if taking part in ...

Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan, and Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Haematology, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Pediatric Oncology/ Hematology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Division of Haematol...

Applications in counterterrorism and corporate competition have led to the development of new methods for the analysis of decision-making when there are intelligent opponents and uncertain outcomes. This field is sometimes called adversarial risk analysis. In this paper, we illustrate a general framework developed for supporting a decision maker in a problem with intelligent opponents through a...

For the precaution against physical soil degradation in managed soils, accurate planning data about anthropogenic impacts and for policy making applicable indicators to describe the driving force and state are required. To assess the potential erosion risk, accurate information is available, but to assess the actual erosion risk it is necessary to regard current land-use and cultivation data fo...