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A WEB-BASED MODEL TO DETERMINE SECURITY RISK EXPOSURE INDEX AMONG SAVINGS AND CREDIT COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES
No full textFULL TEXTSavings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs), like other financial institutions, own critical assets that must be protected against attackers even as the threat landscape continue to persist. This study provides a solution to SACCOs by determining security risk exposure index (SREI) based on ISO/ 27001 standards. The objectives of the study were to determine the critical security risks factors affecting Selected SACCOs based on ISO 27001 standards, to design a model for computing their security risk exposure index, to implement a prototype as a web based application for computing security risk exposure index, and to verify and validate the model. The study targeted 55 respondents from 11 deposit-taking SACCOs licensed by Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) to operate within Nakuru County. The response rate of 90.9% was registered and was considered sufficient for the study. The design model was based on six of ISO 27001’s eleven cardinal security control factors that were considered most critical to the security of the SACCOs using reduction analysis of the responses. Relevant Weights for computing SREI were derived and a mathematical model was designed. The model was implemented as a web-based prototype through design science paradigm using PHP as server-side language, CSS3 and JQuery for frontend styling and response, and MYSQL as a database engine. The designed model is significant in the sense that it provides the SACCO management and regulating authorities with useful information about security levels of their organizations when compared with best practices. The model provided appropriate actions necessary to maintain risk exposure to minimum levels
A WEB-BASED MODEL TO DETERMINE SECURITY RISK EXPOSURE INDEX AMONG SAVINGS AND CREDIT COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES
No full textFULL TEXTSavings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs), like other financial institutions, own critical assets that must be protected against attackers even as the threat landscape continue to persist. This study provides a solution to SACCOs by determining security risk exposure index (SREI) based on ISO/ 27001 standards. The objectives of the study were to determine the critical security risks factors affecting Selected SACCOs based on ISO 27001 standards, to design a model for computing their security risk exposure index, to implement a prototype as a web based application for computing security risk exposure index, and to verify and validate the model. The study targeted 55 respondents from 11 deposit-taking SACCOs licensed by Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) to operate within Nakuru County. The response rate of 90.9% was registered and was considered sufficient for the study. The design model was based on six of ISO 27001’s eleven cardinal security control factors that were considered most critical to the security of the SACCOs using reduction analysis of the responses. Relevant Weights for computing SREI were derived and a mathematical model was designed. The model was implemented as a web-based prototype through design science paradigm using PHP as server-side language, CSS3 and JQuery for frontend styling and response, and MYSQL as a database engine. The designed model is significant in the sense that it provides the SACCO management and regulating authorities with useful information about security levels of their organizations when compared with best practices. The model provided appropriate actions necessary to maintain risk exposure to minimum levels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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