Security and privacy issues have become far more critical and complex in the Internet era. Balancing security enhancement and privacy protection remains a key challenge involving both technical and non-technical issues. It is crucial to restructure computer and software engineering curricula to familiarize students with the challenges and opportunities associated with the security and privacy i...

— This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of maleand female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups, and finds no significant differences in the food security between these two types of households. The absence of social and cultural restrictions among the indigenous groups permitting their females gre...

With more and more e-business operating on line, the network and information security problem is not only confined to the concept of network technical systems, but at the same time has special significance beyond network itself, which is economic ties, cultural transmission media, the social operation and management way and so on. Based on the analysis of the security importance and security ev...

The application of information security technologies do not always result in improved security. Human factors play a significant role in computer security; factors such as individual difference, cognitive abilities and personality traits can impact on behaviour. Information security behaviours are also greatly influenced by an individual’s perception of risk. All of these factors are also affec...

This paper is an attempt to develop a model that explores the factors that affect the frequency of violations of information security policies (ISPs). Additionally, it examines the moderating effect of cultural attributes on the frequency of ISP violations. Does national culture affect the way managers and employees perceive and practice ISPs? If we understand why ISPs are violated, perhaps we ...

While crop genetic diversity supports ecological processes and food security, there have been few cross-cultural studies evaluating the influence of cultural and dietary factors on the conservation of genetic resources. This study examines genetic diversity patterns of tartary buckwheat in 18 smallholder farming communities across five regions of China (Yunnan Province, Tibet Autonomous Region ...

This paper presents a multicultural comparison on users' perception on computer security issues in Finland, Sweden, and Iceland. Special emphasis is given to the notion of trust: how trusting relations are formed both in an electronic environment, namely, the Internet, as well as outside it, in the real world. A set of user interviews, together with walkthroughs of existing Web sites of some e-...

abstractthe aims of the present research included, investigating the possible relationships between the four aspects of cultural attitudes based on the hofsted model(masculinity, power distance, uncertainity avoidance and collectivism) and the staff's creativity in the ministry of welfare and social security. therefore, a statistical sample of 150 people was chosen from the employees of th...