BACKGROUND Unconditional and conditional cash transfer programmes (UCT and CCT) show potential to improve the well-being of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS (OVC). We address the gap in current understanding about the extent to which household-based cash transfers differentially impact individual children's outcomes, according to risk or protective factors such as orphan s...

“Data today is not just information, but an asset” says Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Based on the World Economic Forum (WEF) reports on “Re-thinking data”, Irving states that data kept at a place is like money hiding under a mattress. Data needs to move to create value, much like money. But Personal data is as dangerous as useful and presently, it lacks the trading rules and policy frameworks which...

conservation of biodiversity in protected areas will be more challenging if local communities are heavily dependent on them for various products and subsistence needs. this study estimated forest dependency and identified factors influencing dependency for households living around kasane forest reserve (kfr). data collected from 237 households were analyzed using logistic regression model. logi...

This article establishes a context for secure information systems development as well as a set of models used to develop and apply a secure software production pedagogy. A generic system model is presented to support the system context development, and to provide a framework for discussing security relationships that exist between and among information systems and their applications. An asset p...

Abstract Investing in the current reproduction requires diverting energy resources from other metabolic functions, which may compromise future and lifespan. To solve this trade-off, an individual consider its labile state to decide how much invest reproduction. We tested experimentally whether “state quality” of male rock lizards influences their reproductive strategies. improve nutritional sta...

Information governance is becoming an important aspect of organisational accountability. In consideration that information is an integral asset of most organisations, the protection of this asset will increasingly rely on organisational capabilities in security. In the medical arena this information is primarily sensitive patient-based information. Previous research has shown that application o...

1 Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, United Kingdom 2 Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland Abstract Security requirements are concerned with protecting assets of a system from harm. Implemented as code aspects to weave protection mechanisms into the system, security requirements need to be validated when changes are made to the programs during syste...

During the last decade, intellectual capital (IC) and intangible assets have been widely considered as critical tool to deliver successful business in an intensive-knowledge environment. Accordingly, the main goal of this paper is therefore to develop and prioritize the most important indicators of intellectual capital in knowledge-based industries. Based on an extensive literature review, a va...