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The MaRiQ model: A quantitative approach to risk management
No full textIn recent years, cyber attacks and data fraud have become major issues to companies, businesses and nation states alike. The need for more accurate and reliable risk management models is therefore substantial. Today, cybersecurity risk management is often carried out on a qualitative basis, where risks are evaluated to a predefined set of categories such as low, medium or high. This thesis aims to challenge that practice, by presenting a model that quantitatively assesses risks - therefore named MaRiQ (Manage Risks Quantitatively). MaRiQ was developed based on collected requirements and contemporary literature on quantitative risk management. The model consists of a clearly defined flowchart and a supporting tool created in Excel. To generate scientifically validated results, MaRiQ makes use of a number of statistical techniques and mathematical functions, such as Monte Carlo simulations and probability distributions. To evaluate whether our developed model really was an improvement compared to current qualitative processes, we conducted a workshop at the end of the project. The organization that tested MaRiQexperienced the model to be useful and that it fulfilled most of their needs. Our results indicate that risk management within cybersecurity can and should be performed using more quantitative approaches than what is praxis today. Even though there are several potential developments to be made, MaRiQ demonstrates the possible advantages of transitioning from qualitative to quantitative risk management processes
Consuming ethnicity : loss, commodities and space in Macedonia
No full textIn this article, Rozita Dimova examines the rearticulation of class and ethnicity and how class distinctions produced by a free market and neoliberal economy in Macedonia have affected the interaction of Albanians and Macedonians in postsocialist Macedonia. Dimova highlights the ethnic dimensions of changing patterns of consumption by exploring the class mobility of one ethnic group (Albanians) and thus combines class, commodities, and consumption with notions of ethnicity. The process of articulating ethnicity and class is induced by the larger neoliberal context of the post-Cold War world in which the political economy of the "free" market and privatization inform local subjectivities. The domain of consumption, therefore, offers a place from which we can understand the complex interactions of multiple actors in Macedonia and see the various economic, performative, and symbolic significance of consumption in which the social mobility of the nouveaux riches Albanians has contributed to the loss of class privileges experienced by many ethnic Macedonians.</jats:p
The 'Nation of Poetry' : language, festival and subversion in Macedonia
No full textThis article critically examines the Struga Poetry Festival established in 1961 when it placed Macedonian poets and writers on the wider map of world poetry, international literature and language. With this the festival carried a subversive and an emancipatory task that not only promoted Macedonia's national poetry but also pushed the nation itself onto the world stage. Although highly politicized (and deeply political), the festival emerged as a seemingly apolitical event that celebrated the “universal language of poetry”. Yet, with its aesthetic form of an open event devoted to poetry, this festival (in a very Bakhtinian manner) pinpoints the obvious carnivalesque element in manoeuvring and subverting established social and political hierarchies. Initially, it allowed Macedonian language and poets to join established national states that have “undisputed” (or less disputed) literary traditions. The subversive nature of this festival after the 2001 military conflict in Macedonia changed the direction and intensity of the Albanian struggle for improving their status into the Macedonian society. This event has effectively allowed a minority group to initiate social movement and engage in serious identity politics related to territorial self-governance, language and cultural representation
The Etruscan <i>pithos</i> revolution
No full textThis chapter presents a study of pithoi – large Etruscan ceramic vessels for the storage and processing of agricultural produce in Italy in the first millennium BC. A new regional typology is presented along with their distribution in Etruria. The economic life cycle of pithoi is then analysed from their production to their multiple uses and agency to their disposal. Once these have been assessed, the broader economic impact of the adoption of pithoi in the Etruscan economy and society is reconstructed leading to the conclusions that they contributed to economic development and increased social inequality between the seventh and the fifth centuries BC. Pithoi are then considered as providing evidence for economic growth in the context of the urban development of Etruria
Ургентни состојби во стоматологија
No full textКога станува зборува во медицината за ургентни состојби вообичаено се помислува на оние ситуации кога е загрозен животот на болниот и кога терапијата мора да биде спроведена во истиот момент со манифестирање на
првите симптоми. Вака дефинрани ургентни состојби во стоматолошката секојдневна практика ретко се случуваат и главно се однесуваат на појавата на алергиски состојби или реакции, кога е можно да се појават несакани и многу
бурни реакции на одговор на организмот на внесување на раствори за локална анестезија. Но, исто така, ургентна состојба може да се случи при појава на срцев застој кај пациентот, во стоматолошката ординација или заботехничката
лабораторија, каде што животот на пациентот може да биде сериозно загрозен.
Покрај ова, во стоматолошката практика може да се јават состојби кои,исто така наметнуваат потреба од ургентна терапија, иако можеби животот на пациентот непосредно не е загрозен. Такви се дентогените инфекции,крварењата, кои пак може да го нарушат општото здравје
IN MEMORIAM: PROF. VIOLETA DIMOVA, THE FIRST DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY IN STIP (1955-2021)
No full textProfessor Violeta Dimova passed away on the 7th of May 2021. She was the first dean and one of the founders of the Faculty of Philology in Shtip. The eleventh issue of the International Journal “Palimpsest” is dedicated to our dear professor and friend, Violeta Dimova.
Professor Violeta Dimova will always remain in our memories for her humaneness, kindness, energy, persistence and combativeness in achieving all the goals she set for herself and passed on to us for the development and promotion of our Faculty of Philology.
Rest in peace, our dear Vicky.
From the colleagues at the Faculty of Philology in Shti
Bringing in the experts: blame deflection and the COVID-19 crisis
No full textThe current political emphasis on ‘the experts’ is partly a depoliticisation and blame deflection strategy to render them, instead of the politicians, as the public face of the coronavirus crisis, write Matthew Flinders and Gergana Dimova
'Nature' and 'nation' in the Republic of Moldova : rebirth and rebuilding through the international festival of music 'Mărţişor'
No full textThis article examines the political–pedagogical performance of the spring holiday “Mărţişor” in the Republic of Moldova, as part of Moldova's official nation-building project in the period 2001–2009. By analysing the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor”, we examine symbolic allegories between the celebration of the rebirth of nature—known in folklore as “the holiday of mărţişor”—and the (re)creation of “the Moldovan nation”. We argue that Moldova's official policies of the management of collective memory are based on an ideology that has a direct impact on symbols which are meant to be a source of enthusiasm and cohesion. During the Communist governments (2001–2005 and 2005–2009), the International Festival of Music “Mărţişor” was transformed into a symbolic space in which the Moldovan nation-building project was supposed to be implemented, and “Moldovenism” as a state ideology was intended to be promoted
Elusive centres of a Balkan city : Skopje between undesirable and reluctant heritage
No full textThis paper examines competing forms of heritage in central Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. It shows how Macedonian law came to officially protect the city's Old Bazaar as cultural heritage of special importance in 2007. Yet the Bazaar constitutes a reluctant heritage' because locals have associated Ottoman-period architecture with Albanians, amidst ethno-political tensions between Albanians and Macedonians that have persisted since the socialist period. This heritage coexists in an uneasy tension with another undesirable heritage', namely, that of the socialist modernist architecture erected after a 1963 earthquake. In addition to tracing these competing forms of heritage, this article discusses the effects of the Skopje 2014' project and underscores the relation of state-power to processes of heritage-making and gentrification in the city
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