The purpose of this paper is to explain clearly the role of the information system security management within the entire Port of Rijeka security process. The complexity of the Port of Rijeka system, in which Rijeka Port Authority contemplates the development strategy of the Rijeka traffic route and the services provided by the Port within the framework of the already existing development paradi...

Currently, organizations move from the need to produce high rates of profitability, by the satisfaction of their customers, partners or employees, and by the maintenance of high levels of competitiveness to enable them to face competition and ensure their survival. With the evolution of Information Systems and the Information Technology, increasingly organizations based its activities on these ...

To the Editor: Predictable rhythmic fluctuations, especially circadian, have been observed in a wide variety of physiologicai and psychological functions. Abno~a~ities of circadian patterns have been documented in people with depression, including a tendency for maximal severity of depression in the morning; however, patients with anxiety or mixed depression/anxiety report a tendency for sympto...

It is clear that city must be part of the solution if an urbanizing world is to grapple successfully with ecological challenges such as energy depletion and climate change. A system dynamics model was developed in this study using STELLA platform to model the energy consumption and CO2 emission trends for the City of Beijing over 2005–2030. Results show that the total energy demand in Beijing i...

nowadays, the effort for ease of doing business is the more important worry in transition economies in the way of reaching in economic development and high competitiveness. according to intuitionalism theories, the inefficiency of judicial system causes to increase trade costs, and so, violates the business environment. by studying the rank of iran's ease in doing business between other world c...

the augmented gravity model was employed to determine iran's trading model and agricultural export directions in the case of cross section analysis in 2005 for 64 countries which are considered as iran's main export market. besides, another explanatory variable named trade conformity index (tci) was added to the model. this index was employed to identify iran's trading model. als...

Mindset theory (Gollwitzer, 1990) proposes that deliberative mindsets are marked by more open-minded processing of information, whereas implemental mindsets are characterized by more closed-minded processing. Accordingly, deliberative and implemental mindsets should diVer in selective processing of incidental information when performing a central task. In three experiments, participants in deli...

We investigate the value of past performance information in the context of keyword advertising auctions, where advertisers differ both in valuation-per-click and in the numbers of clicks they can generate (their performance). We focus on weighted unitprice-contract (UPC) auctions, in which bidders bid unit prices and pay accordingly if they win, and their bids are weighted by factors based on t...

Nowadays, context-aware systems are developed by gathering context data and adapting systems behavior accordingly. The purpose of this paper is to examine four architectural pattern context-aware systems in terms of the ability to be implemented. The pattern which can overcome the complexity of these systems and can be more extensible is better to be implemented. This paper is based on a review...

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3781, December 2005 The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordi...