This paper investigates service provisions in community languages offered by Manchester City Council and agencies working alongside to find out whether there is an explicit language policy in Manchester, how such a policy is formulated, how it functions, and how it is reflected in education. Data was collected through interviews with different personnel in MCC, focus group discussions with comm...

The present study examined people’s implicit and explicit perceptions of mental illness and compared those attitudes to ratings of fairness for psychiatric hospital policies. The sample consisted of 88 participants, from both Connecticut College and Amazon Mechanical Turk. Data were derived from a Hospital Policy Questionnaire created by the researcher, the Perceptions of Dangerousness of Menta...

Privacy has recently become a prominent issue in the context of electronic commerce websites. Increasingly, privacy policies posted on such websites are receiving considerable attention from the government and consumers. We have used goal-mining, to extract prerequirements goals from post-requirements text artifacts, as a technique for analyzing privacy policies. The identified goals are useful...

Privacy has recently become a prominent issue in the context of electronic commerce Web sites. Increasingly, privacy policies posted on such Web sites are receiving considerable attention from the government and consumers. In this paper we present a taxonomy for Web site privacy requirements. We have used goal-mining, the extraction of pre-requirements goals from post-requirements text artifact...

abstract comparative advantage is an economic term which is used to compare potential and actual production capacity of a country in a given commodity with the rest of the world. therefore, researches in this field could have a dual approach. in one hand it could demonstrate country’s production capacity in the production of commodities that are not produced yet and in the other hand it can ill...

Many programs make implicit assumptions about data. Common assumptions include whether a variable has been initialized or can only contain non-null references. Domain-specific examples are also common, with many scientific programs manipulating values with implicit units of measurement. However, in languages like C, there is no language facility for representing these assumptions, making violat...

Organized by three distinguished members of the JBS Editorial Board – Marc Bickle, PhD, of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany); Hakim Djaballah, PhD, of Institut Pasteur Korea (South Korea); and Lorenz Martin Mayr, PhD, of AstraZeneca (UK) – this special issue demonstrates how RNAi is enjoying a revival of popularity and is increasingly being applied to dis...

Most policy-based access control frameworks explicitly model whether execution of certain actions (read, write, etc.) on certain assets should be permitted or denied and usually assume that such actions are disjoint from each other, i.e. there does not exist any explicit or implicit dependency between actions of the domain. This in turn means, that conflicts among rules or policies can only occ...