In this chapter the authors present a policy-based security engineering process for service oriented applications, developed in the SERENITY and MISTICO projects. Security and dependability (S&D) are considered as first-class citizens in the proposed engineering process, which is based on the precise description of reusable security and dependability solutions. The authors’ process is based on ...

BACKGROUND Although there is evidence that client expectations influence client outcomes, a valid and reliable scale for measuring the range of client expectations for both massage therapy and the behaviors of their massage therapists does not exist. Understanding how client expectations influence client outcomes would provide insight into how massage achieves its reported effects. PURPOSE To...

Addiction often is colored by regret and resentment. Negativity feeds feelings of isolation and loneliness. It increases stress, undermines health and places a strain on relationships. It dampens expectations and motivations. The familiar role of victim challenges the ability to have inner peace. Self pity can encourage complacency to settle in, and feelings of serenity appear distant and unrea...

broadly speaking, the holy quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. since, the life creator, the sender of this holy book, is the creator of human body and mind. human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. at this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

expression to predict the clinical response to tipifarnib and etoposide. RASGRP1 is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) that specifically activates RAS, and Aprataxin is a member of the histine triad family of nucleotide hydrolsases involved in the repair of DNA strand breaks. 3 The two-gene expression ratio (RASGRP1/APTX) was identified by analyzing gene expression profiles in bone marr...

In this chapter we present an overview of the SERENITY approach. We describe the SERENITY model of secure and dependable applications and show how it addresses the challenge of developing, integrating and dynamically maintaining security and dependability mechanisms in open, dynamic, distributed and heterogeneous computing systems and in particular Ambient Intelligence scenarios. We describe th...

Part B: The SERENITY Security and Dependability Artefacts 4 Specification of Security and Dependability Properties Sigrid Gürgens and Gimena Pujol.............................................49 5 Representation of Security and Dependability Solutions Francisco Sánchez-Cid, Antonio Maña, George Spanoudakis, Christos Kloukinas, Daniel Serrano and Antonio Muñoz......... .........69 6 Security and ...