BACKGROUND The AIDS Control Program (ACP) in Uganda has spearheaded the national health sector HIV response for the last three decades. ACP has developed, revised and implemented various HIV prevention, care and treatment policies in order to keep interventions relevant to the changing dynamics of the HIV epidemic. However, the ACP team and partners remain concerned about the lengthy policy dev...

We study the sustainability of public debt in a closed production economy where a benevolent government chooses fiscal policies, including haircuts on its outstanding debt, in a discretionary manner. Government bonds are held by domestic agents to smooth consumption over time and because they provide collateral and liquidity services. We characterize a recursive equilibrium where public debt am...

Nowadays many organizations experience security incidents due to unauthorized access to information. To reduce the risk of such incidents, security policies are often employed to regulate access to information. Such policies, however, are often too restrictive, and users do not have the rights necessary to perform assigned duties. As a consequence, access control mechanisms are perceived by use...

Ref2: The following is a review of the manuscript, “The effects of convection on new particle formation in the free troposphere: Case studies” by Benson et al. This review pertains to a revised version of the manuscript. The case studies in this revision are improved and provide a clearer representation of the relationship between air history and new particle formation. However, the discussion ...

The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union could serve as an opportunity to accelerate global and regional trade integration of ACP countries. Moreover, the European Commission intends to use EPAs as a tool for development and the eradication of poverty in ACP countries. To achieve their potential develop...

In this paper meta-policies for access control policies are presented. There has been a lot of research into the various ways of specifying policy for a single domain. Such domains are autonomous and can be managed by the users or by a specific system administrator. It is often helpful to have a more general policy description in order to restrict the ways in which policy can be modified. Meta-...

Mandatory access control has traditionally been employed as a robust security mechanism in critical environments like military ones. As computing technology becomes more pervasive and mobile services are deployed, applications will need flexible access control mechanisms. Aggregating mandatory models with context-awareness would provide us with essential means to define dynamic policies needed ...