Since 1981, the Army's HHA Program has provided an invaluable service to combat developers and materiel program managers by providing recommendations designed to eliminate or control health hazards associated with materiel and weapon systems. The program has consistently strived to improve its services by providing more meaningful and efficient assistance to the acquisition community. In the un...

The term fiscal sustainability has many definitions, though it almost always refers to the fiscal policies of a government or the public sector. One concept of sustainability relates to solvency, the ability of the government to service its debt obligations in perpetuity without explicit default. Rarely does fiscal sustainability analysis reach the conclusion that a government is insolvent unle...

india is much more integrated with the world economy. both current and capital accounts are complementing to each other. the economic slowdown that appears to have begun in the usa in september, 2008 has some negative impact on indian economy. the most immediate and adverse effect of this global financial crisis on india is an out flow of foreign institutional investment (fii) from the capital ...

today, the issue concerning the conferment of the whole or a part of the material rights belonging to the author and the related contracts is of special importance, to the extent that in some legal systems, such as the french, various specific contracts, like the publication contract, special provisions and regulations have been devised for it. whereas, no special rules concerning the above-men...

Due to physical and logical vulnerabilities, a critical infrastructure (CI) can encounter failures of various degrees of severity, and since there are many interdependencies between CIs, simple failures can have dramatic consequences on the users. In this paper, we mainly focus on malicious threats that might affect the information and communciation system that controls the Critical Infrastruct...

ion: services and quality of service. In the simplest case, a Dependency Description simply lists the other resources a resource depends on. This means that the dependencies refer to specific software or hardware components. For greater flexibility, it is possible to specify the abstract service types a resource provides. For example, the Dependency Description of an application that displays i...

The global financial crisis of 2008–09 has sent public debt on sharply higher trajectories, as governments have provided large-scale support to the financial system, implemented discretionary fiscal stimulus, and accommodated steep drops in tax revenue. With the economic recovery gradually taking hold, the focus is now shifting to fiscal “exit strategies.” Indeed, many countries are set to face...