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Analysis of Organizational Vulnerability using Social Network Analysis and Attack Graph
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to develop an approach to analyze organizational vulnerability caused by its employees. The proposed approach is adapted from general attack graph analysis approach and social network analysis approach.  The attack graph, which is relationship graph in this proposed approach, is created from organization’s email logs and virus reports. The relationship graph is analyzed using shortest path analysis to discover all possible attack paths start from risky employees to target employee, and then grouped by path length for further actions based on security policy. The proposed approach was tested using datasets that are limited to only one month with assumption that weight on all edges are equal. This paper suggested further study to improve accuracy of the proposed approach using other mathematical methods such as shortest path analysis with weight or Markov Chains. The proposed approach could also be used by security audit in risk assessment process
Nifty Auto Index prediction on the basis of tweets sentiments
Get PDFIn this paper we investigate the complex relationshipbetween tweet sentiments with the Nifty Stock market AutoIndex (esp. stock prices). We will analyze sentiments for nearly 1million tweets from December 2015 to March 2016 for Nifty AutoIndex which includes 15 auto industries stocks. Our results willshow high correlation between stock prices and twittersentiments. A Granger causality analysis and a Neural Networkare then used to investigate the hypothesis that public moodstates are predictive of changes in Nifty Auto Index closingvalues
The Book of Daniel: Exposure and Criticism of Political Violence
Get PDFE. L. Doctorow’s historical novel The Book of Daniel (1971), by using trauma narrative, from the perspective of the political Left wing, combining memory with imagination and mixing history with fiction, reconstructs the tragic historical story of Daniel’s parents who were electrocuted for treason by the state in the 1950s, exposes and criticizes the political violence as the root of trauma imposed upon the younger generation from that tragedy
Hearing the Inner Voices of Asian English Poets
Get PDFPoetry is often, even if not always, thought ofas a work to be read audibly. Literary analyses of eachpoem and biographical information of the poet aim atproviding deeper understanding, but few students ofliterature actually attend seriously to the poet’sphonology. By first providing an analysis of the tonalityHong Kong English with side view glances to Singapore,this paper provides arguments for how much moreexciting poetry can be not just for new Englishes, but forall languages in today’s world where so many languagesand cultures are in contact
Improving Reading Comprehension Using Reading Strategies
Get PDFReading is fundamental in all academic disciplines. Many of the teachers do not think that teaching reading is a part of their job. This may be due to the constraints to complete their syllabus for examination. The teachers should also realize the difficulty the students face while reading the subject matter and comprehend it. This results in low rate of students’ success and retention. Moreover they lack interest in reading and go for notes and guides which results in rote learning. Number of views has been expressed to improve the Reading Skill of learners. It is suggested that learners who are very good in reading the first language can achieve proficiency in the second language also, but this study points to another direction, how more reading improves one’s sight vocabulary & thus one’s reading speed and comprehension. This article suggests various strategies adapted to the Engineering students to improve their reading speed and their comprehension level
The Carbon Impact Of Shared Space In Urban High Density Residential Projects
No full textThe reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has becomea controversial topic that must be weighed seriously. Regardingthe carbon emission of high urban density residential projects,construction elements and a building’s heating/cooling energyconsumption have been the primary benchmarks for evaluatingand controlling carbon emissions. It has been proposed thatpublic open spaces within buildings have a considerable negatingeffect on carbon emission both at the construction and operatingphases. However, shared space, such as an open urban-orientedground floor or public/private balconies can provide amenities forresidents decrease the dependence on motorized, carbonproducing, vehicles. This study will consider the open, and urbanassociated,ground floor as an example to analyze the physical andsocial appearance effects on carbon emission in high urbandensity residential projects. By obtaining the data from softwaresimulation and user surveys, the study will provide clear evidencethat well-designed shared spaces contribute to reducing carbonemission. The study shows that shared spaces in residentialprojects play a significant role in carbon reduction. By changingthe social/work patterns of the residents, the decrease in totalcarbon emission is 3 fold the increase of the building carbonfootprint caused by the redesign of the envelope. When viewedover the life cycle of the building, the savings increases to 20 timesgreater savings of carbon. This process provides a valuable predesignreference for future residential buildings. By shifting thesustainable perspective from energy savings to carbon emissions
Financial Reporting Quality, Executive Stock Options and Business Ethics
Get PDFThis paper tests the improvement of financial reporting quality when firms award stock options to their executives. The originality of this study is that we introduce the moderating effect of business ethics in the model. The sample is made up of 116 Canadian high-technology firms with available data for the fiscal year ending in 2012. We define the quality of financial reporting as the value relevance of accounting information as developed by Ohlson. Our results show that executive stock option award alone does not improve the quality of financial reporting. Rather, the quality improves when a firm awards stock options to its executives and investors perceive that the level of business ethics in that firm is high
Comparison of selected startup ecosystems in Germany and in the USA Explorative analysis of the startup environments
Get PDFThe startup ecosystems in Germany and in the US aredifferent in several dimensions and they have a huge impact onthe success of startups. In this study the factors that affects thestartup ecosystems are compared. It is analyzed what startupsconsider as critical to their success and how this varies based onthe location of the startups. Using the developed scoringmechanism, the study compares the relative scores of varioussuccess factors between the German and American startups toidentify areas for improvement. The findings suggest thatGermany is successful in implementing co-working spaces andincubators but it lacks on accelerator programs. Further, it needsto develop a better support system for their startups while theGerman startups themselves need to focus on building a strongerinternal team in order to boost the startup ecosystem
TAPROOTING TRANSLATION: REFLECTIONS ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TRANSLATION
Get PDFThe paper constitutes a prolegomena, a framework, or a scaffolding for a theoretical understructure of the phenomenon of translation, seeking to articulate what it is and what  it is not, what it could be and what it could not possibly be.  In its internal weave, translation is a complex, rich, and varied phenomenon, and in its external function, it is a life-giving, life-affirming, life-nourishing, bridge-building, bridge-repairing, barrier-breaching, breach-filling globalising, synergizing humanising exercise. Much like language itself, which, in its internal architectonics, is such a rigorously elegantly rule-governed, complex, rich, varied, thought-facilitating and mental-world creating enterprise and in its external function, is such a life-giving, life-creating, light-creating, light-giving, knowledge-building and - giving, civilization-building, evolutionary nlightenment-targeting, Self-building socially synergising exercise.  I am not sure if translation is best seen as a cluster concept, or that the definitional thrust of translation should be an open one. One needs to do some sorting, taxonomising and modularising, in case and after it is accepted as an open-ended cluster. The present exposition will claim that it is necessary to pin down things in any credible academic discipline before it endeavours to elucidate the place translation has in the history of ideas. There is doubtless some epistemic muck attached to translation at present in regard to how it relates to language, bearing on questions of translatability and untranslatability, and equally importantly, on how it is conceived as an academic discipline. One characterisation of this muck in relation to literary translation is ‘prescriptive anti-essentialism’. Except for a few people like the redoubtable Wittgenstein who made sublime sense while taking about  language, quite a few other non-linguists (e.g Derrida, Tejaswini Niranjana, Quine, Steiner, Eco and some others ) have been remarkably off-target in what they think about language. They have either overshot the target or missed it by nearly a mile. It is necessary in the interest of the pursuit of truth to outlast, and move beyond, them. Some hint of the untenability of such naive and theoretically uninformed postures about the nature of language and the nature of the phenomenon of translation is beginning to be available in the literature in the form of Clifford (1997), Giridhar (2005) and Singh (2004) inter alia. One such miscued shot (by Quine) has been successfully caught, among others, by Dasgupta (1989). On the positive side, of course, one needs to talk of how and why the place of translation is secure in the history of ideas, how it is such a powerful, life-giving, life-nourishing act and to explore how -- while it creates conditions for globalisation -- it pulls the lid off, sustains and fosters the important differences that mask the essential equally important grounding sameness of us as human beings. Without assuming an air of completeness or finality, the present paper will attempt to accomplish this, in terms of examining the sites of literary translation and expository knowledge-translation.  If poetry is untranslatable, we need to see why. We need to elucidate the dynamics, mechanics and the source of the element of ‘unself-identicality’ that inheres in the transcendent original. One reason why poetry is untranslatable is that while being transcendental, the original is arguably not self-identical (Sarukkai 2001). As we argue, it is difficult however to see how discursive texts are not self-identical. An automobile manual, for instance.  If, as we argue, all intelligibility is necessarily subject to translation, then whatever is intelligible including poetry must be translatable. Is it the case that intelligibility works at cross purposes with a text being not self-identical, with the nonself-identicality of these texts?  In any case we need a theory of semantic competence/performance, a theory that is diacritical of a principled dichotomy between grammatically determined meaning and extragrammatically determined meaning, something that Chomsky failed to do with any success (Cf Katz 1980). To deny the existence of extragrammatically determined meaning may be presumptuous. We are nowhere near a theory or explanation of such extragrammatically designed worlds in literary cosmoses despite a long hoary bequest in poetics that man has been heir to. One needs such a theory partly to explain the fact that (literary) originals are not absolutely self-identical, an insight first noticed by Benjamin (1923)
A Literature Review: Modelling Dynamic Portfolio Strategy under Defaultable Assets with Stochastic Rate of Return, Rate of Inflation and Credit Spread Rate
Get PDFThis research aims to find an optimal solution for dynamic portfolio in finite-time horizon under defaultable assets, which means that the assets has a chance to be liquidated in a finite time horizon, e.g corporate bond. Besides investing on those assets, investors will also have benefit in the form of consumption. As a reference in making investment decisions the concept of utility functions and volatility will play a role. Optimal portfolio composition will be obtained by maximizing the total expected discounted utility of consumption in the time span during the investment is executed and also to minimize the risk, the volatility of the investment. Further the reduced form model is applied since the assets prices can be linked with the market risk and the credit risk. The interest rate and the rate of inflation will be allowed as a representation of market risk, while the credit spread will be used as a representation of credit risk. The dynamic of asset prices can be derived analytically by using Ito Calculus in the form of the movement of the three risk factors above. Furthermore, this problem will be solved using the stochastic dynamic programming method by assuming that market is incomplete. Depending on the chosen utility function, the optimal solution of the portfolio composition and the consumption can be found explicitly in the form of feedback control. This is possible since the dynamic of the wealth process of the control variable is linear. To apply dynamic programming as well as to find solutions we use Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (BSDE) where the solution can be solved explicitly, especially where the terminal value of the investment target is chosen random. Further, it will be modeled with Monte Carlo simulation and, calibrated using Indonesia data of stock and corporate bond