This paper investigates the current status of Information System Security (ISS) within New South Wales State government agencies in Australia. A 3-year longitudinal survey was used to increase awareness and motivate ISS managers. In addition, the survey was used as a management tool to monitor compliance with ISS standard’s controls (AS/NZS17799:2001). In 2004 an amendment to the standard added...

Although there are ongoing efforts to extend the ISS life cycle through 2028, the International Space Station (ISS) end-of-life (EOL) cycle is currently scheduled for 2020. The EOL for the ISS will require de-orbiting the ISS. This will be the largest manmade object ever to be deorbited, therefore safely de-orbiting the station will be a very complex problem. This process is being planned by NA...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to identify potential risk factors for intussusception (ISS) among children presenting to two pediatric hospitals in Egypt. METHODOLOGY In this case-control study,  enrolled children < 3 years old with ISS (confirmed radiologically and/or surgically) were  matched by age and gender to controls admitted with acute non-abdominal surgical illnesses. Stool samples were colle...

Bacterial insertion sequences (ISs) are the simplest kinds of bacterial mobile DNA. Evolutionary studies need consistent IS annotation across many different genomes. We have developed an open-source software package, IScan, to identify bacterial ISs and their sequence elements--inverted and target direct repeats--in multiple genomes using multiple flexible search parameters. We applied IScan to...

Submitted for publication: September 10, 2009 Accepted for publication: January 5, 2010 The adoption in 2000 of the Common Technical Document (CTD) format for marketing applications notwithstanding, the US regulations requiring an integrated summary of effectiveness (ISE) and an integrated summary of safety (ISS) remain in effect. Many applicants, however, have attempted to use the CTD module 2...

Objective. Retrospective single-centre analysis of growth characteristics in 182 healthy short children born small for gestational age (SGA) or appropriate for gestational age (idiopathic short stature, ISS). Methods. Birth size references from the USA and Sweden were compared, and for the classification as SGA or ISS the Swedish reference was chosen. Height, target height (TH), bone age (BA), ...

In this paper, we study input-to-state stability (ISS) of an equilibrium for a scalar conservation law with nonlocal velocity and measurement error arising in highly re-entrant manufacturing system. By using suitable Lyapunov function, prove sufficient necessary conditions on ISS. We propose numerical discretization the error. A discrete function is analyzed to provide ISS proposed approximatio...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of in situ simulation (ISS) versus off-site simulation (OSS) on knowledge, patient safety attitude, stress, motivation, perceptions of simulation, team performance and organisational impact. DESIGN Investigator-initiated single-centre randomised superiority educational trial. SETTING Obstetrics and anaesthesiology departments, Rigshospitalet, University o...

BACKGROUND In critical injury, the occurrence of increased oxidative stress or a reduced antioxidant status has been observed. The purpose of this study was to correlate the degree of oxidative stress, by measuring the oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) of plasma in the critically injured, with injury severity and serum amyloid A (SAA) levels. METHODS A total of 140 subjects were included in...

We present a general approach to analyzing stability of hybrid systems, based on input-to-state stability (ISS) and small-gain theorems. We demonstrate that the ISS small-gain analysis framework is very naturally applicable in the context of hybrid systems. Novel Lyapunovbased and LaSalle-based small-gain theorems for hybrid systems are presented. The reader does not need to be familiar with IS...