Volume 18, Number 2 87 The 2004 Indviduals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) and subsequent regulations published in August 2006, have significantly changed the identification process for students suspected of having specific learning disabilities (SLD; Flanagan & Alfonzo, 2011; Mather & Kaufman, 2006; Schultz & Stephens, 2009a). According to the 2006 IDEA regulations (§300.307...

ANALYSIS In previous research we introduced a framework for understanding the different protection styles and technologies in the market for host-based intrusion prevention systems (HIPSs). Since then, we have been asked, “What’s the best HIPS protection style?” The answer is that there is no “silver bullet.” No single protection style alone provides sufficient protection, and different organiz...

In many real world applications designers tend towards building classes of objects such as concepts chunks and clusters according to some similarity criteria In this paper we rst compare two approaches to clustering the Galois lattice approach and a similarity based clustering approach Then we sketch the possible ways each approach can bene t from the other in re ning the process of building a ...

As an emerging discipline, we propose a formal definition of OBIA, describe how OBIA came into existence, and as a road map to future research propose a fundamental objective. In order to provide potential strategies to meet this objective, we undertake a tentative SWOT Analysis to identify current Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats that OBIA faces, and discuss the results. * Corres...

Aiming at sustainable development, decision-making for operation of large dams requires the assessment of complex interrelations with neighbouring environmental, economic and social subsystems. To solve this kind of highly unstructured problems often DSS are recommended. This paper presents strengths and weaknesses of DSS application in general, focusing however on large dam operation. A charac...

Several wireless networks security standards have been proposed and widely implemented in both business and home environments in order to protect the network from unauthorized access. However, the implementation of such standards is usually achieved by network administrators without even knowing the standards’ weaknesses and strengths. The intention of this paper is to evaluate and analyze the ...

Background In order to meet the challenges presented by increasing demand and scarcity of resources, healthcare organizations are faced with difficult decisions related to resource allocation. Tools to facilitate evaluation and improvement of these processes could enable greater transparency and more optimal distribution of resources.   Methods The Resource Allocation Performance Assessment Too...

Sustainable development is one of the most important issues that can be considered from different aspects and in different contexts including sustainable agriculture. This study aimed to investigate the main strategies related to sustainable development of rice production as an important agricultural product in Guilan Province using a SWOT analysis. To this end, different internal (strengths an...