Among the most important Jewish encounters with other cultures and civilizations, the encounter with Islamic culture was, in our view, the most important. This encounter was in some aspects like their encounter with the ancient civilization, but the impacts were more valuable and constructive. Under Islamic rule, the Jews not only had a sense of security but also enjoyed a relatively satisfacto...

Using the concept of ontological security, this paper examines the physical and psychological loss of home and community following Hurricane Katrina. This qualitative longitudinal study includes 40 heads of households with school-age children who lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Participants describe a breakdown in their social fabric at the individual and structural/community lev...

In this article, we conceptualize the sense of attachment security as an inner resource and present theory and research on the broaden and build cycle of attachment security generated by the actual or symbolic encounter with external or internalized loving and caring relationship partners. We also propose that the body of research stimulated by attachment theory offers productive hints about in...

Software reliability modeling is a successful attempt to give quantitative measures of software systems. In the broadest sense, security is one of the aspects of reliability. A system is likely to be more reliable if it is more secure. One of the pioneering efforts to integrate security and reliability is [2]. In this paper, these similarities between security and reliability were observed. Sec...

In quantum cryptography, the level of security attainable by a protocol which implements a particular task N times bears no simple relation to the level of security attainable by a protocol implementing the task once. Useful partial security, and even near-perfect security in an appropriate sense, can be obtained for N copies of a task which itself cannot be securely implemented. We illustrate ...

We look at a different security property one might require of encryption, namely one-way security. The notion is natural and seems like a minimal requirement on an encryption scheme. It makes sense for both symmetric and public-key encryption schemes. To make the discussion more concrete, we look at the so-called “textbook” variant of the RSA encryption, and see how to pick keys in relation to ...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...