infrastructure development often leads to considerable changes in the land use. these changes are major causes of habitat fragmentation and ecosystem loss. moreover, decrease of the environmental impacts on biodiversity is among the most important objectives of sustainable development. for this purpose, environmental impact assessment (eia) along with the other appropriate tools can be applied ...

We outline a framework for the risk assessment of information infrastructures that generalizes the notion of dependency with respect to attributes such as confidentiality, integrity or availability. Dependencies are used to model an infrastructure at distinct abstraction levels and to discover attack strategies as well as risk mitigation plans. A plan is formulated in terms of set of countermea...

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Security Management is a necessary process in order to obtain an accurate security policy for Information and Communication Systems (ICS). Organizations spend a lot of money and time to implement their security policy. Existing risk assessment, business continuity and security management tools are unable to meet the growing needs of the current, distributed, complex IS and their critical data a...

The Rosenzweig-MacArthur (1963) criterion is a graphical criterion that has been widely used for elucidating the local stability properties of the Gause (1934) type predator-prey systems. It has not been stated whether a similar criterion holds for models with explicit resource dynamics (Kooi et al. (1998)), like the chemostat model. In this paper we use the implicit function theorem and implic...

introduction: although logbook is a useful tool in learning and assessment of the student, its use in the education of undergraduate dentistry students is not well-established. the present study was conducted to assess the effect of logbook as a study guide and an effective method for assessment of the students in the fixed prosthesis course. methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed...

Policymakers hoped to substitute a new, multi-purpose, functional assessment instrument, the minimum data set post-acute care (MDS-PAC), into the planned prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. PPS design requires a large database linking treatment costs with measures of the need for care, so the PPS was designed using the functional independence measure (FIM) d...

The use of Clickers as a tool for library instruction has been growing in popularity because library instructors view this technology as a mechanism to foster interactivity within library instruction sessions in order to increase overall student engagement. However, a newly emerging area of interest for library instructors is the use of Clickers as a tool for library instruction assessment. Thi...

BACKGROUND The MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status intend to measure the subjective social status using a numbered stepladder image. This study investigated the reliability of the MacArthur scale in a subsample of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). METHOD Three scales were employed using different references: 1) the overall socioeconomic position; 2) the s...