International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), an independent international organization established in 1925, develops, maintains, and elaborates radiological protection standards, legislation, and guidelines. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) provides scientific evidence. World Health Organization (WHO) and International Atomic Energy...

Safe language technology can be used for protection within a single address space. This protection is enforced by the language’s type system, which ensures that references to objects cannot be forged. A safe language alone, however, lacks many features taken for granted in more traditional operating systems, such as rights revocation, thread protection, resource management, and support for doma...

This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First, FDI is analyzed on a sectorally and regionally disaggregated level. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the quantity, but also the quality of FDI. Third, we check to which extent the relationship between IPR prote...

This paper proposes a new backup protection scheme, named coordinated backup protection (CBP) scheme, for distribution networks containing distributed generation. The proposed protection scheme takes into account the issues faced by traditional backup protection, such as difficulty in setting parameters and complex cooperation, and considers the features of distribution networks, such as change...

Purpose – This paper’s aim is to evaluate understanding and knowledge of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 in a sample of community nurses working in learning disability services in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach – Ten community nurses who worked in learning disability services in one NHS area were tested at two time points, four months apart using a questionnaire desi...

Distributed object systems (DOS) are usually implemented as middleware which repeats and undoes a signiicant amount of work performed by the underlying operating system 3]. This introduces overhead and leads to distinct, incompatible middleware implementations. Therefore, basic mechanisms are not usually shared. If mobility and replication rely on common techniques and mechanisms no matter the ...

Myocardial protection by dilazep HCl, an antianginal drug and a potent calcium antagonist, against myocardial damage following acute ischemia and reperfusion was studied with respect to myocardial contractility in isolated blood-perfused canine left ventricular muscle. Myocardial function was expressed by percent recovery rate of maximal net developed tension. 1) The coronary infusion of dilaze...

Extensible systems allow services to be configured and deployed for the specific needs of individual applications. This paper describes a safe and efficient method for userlevel extensibility that requires only minimal changes to the kernel. A sandboxing technique is described that supports multiple logical protection domains within the same address space at user-level. This approach allows app...

The fundamental performance criterion for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) approaches is the protection of the Primary U ser (PU). However, for DSA to become a reality, it is crucial to also ensure some Quality of Service (QoS) support for the Secondary U ser (SU) communication. In this paper, we propose sensing based opportunistic spectrum access approaches achieving both, protection of the PU, a...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies report an association between social support and protection from depression, but no systematic review or meta-analysis exists on this topic. AIMS To review systematically the characteristics of social support (types and source) associated with protection from depression across life periods (childhood and adolescence; adulthood; older age) and by study design (cross...