323,124 research outputs found
The relationship between international and domestic law: the case of the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Russian domestic legal order
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Developing entrepreneurial leadership styles in improving SMIs manufacturing Bumiputera technopreneurs performance in Melaka
No full textUnderstanding developing the effectiveness entrepreneurial leadership styles were important for theoretical and practical reasons because Bumiputera technopreneurial leaders were the individual that need to lead small and medium industries (SMIs) in today‟s innovative and dynamic market in Melaka. The objective of this study was to examine the developing effective entrepreneurial leadership styles in impoving SMIs manufacturing bumiputera technopreneurs performance in Melaka. The research had identified the certain personality traits, behaviors, competencies technopreneurial leaders. There were positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurial leadership styles namely transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style and charismatic style with entrepreneurial leaders‟ personality traits, entrepreneurial leaders‟ behaviours, entrepreneurial leaders‟ competencies, entrepreneurial leaders‟ monitoring companies‟ operation and entrepreneurial leaders‟ monitoring companies‟ performance. The analysis shown that Bumiputera technopreneurial leaders and entrepreneurial leaders‟ monitoring operation and performance among the Bumiputera can use it‟s to evaluate SMIs success and ventures success. Also practitioners of high-risk lending may be interested in methods of assessing entrepreneurial leadership that can be introduced into their risk calculus and potentially improve the likelihood of higher returns of their venture in investments. Thus, charismatic leadership style was found most highly related to entrepreneurial leaders‟ personality traits, entrepreneurial leaders‟ behaviours, entrepreneurial leaders‟ competencies, entrepreneurial leaders‟ monitoring companies‟ operation and entrepreneurial leaders‟ monitoring companies‟ performance followed by transactional leadership style and transformational leadership style. The conclusion, the research had provide insights for team building in executives‟ teams of SMIs, for example providing guidance in finding team members that can make unique contributions via their personality traits, behaviors, competencies and ways to monitor SMIs operation and performance. Suggestions of the research can be used as a guide to present and future SMIs technopreneurs regarding developing the effectiveness entrepreneurial leadership style that have to be practiced to become successful Bumiputera technopreneurial leader in Melaka
Secure Module Invocation System (SMIS): a study of program execution in a secure operating system environment
No full textWith increasing numbers of successful computer attacks by those who are using the Internet and exploiting weaknesses and security gaps in operating systems, applications and software, software security has become an important issue in computer security. Any successful computer hacking attack can create a disaster for networks and important secret information such as personal data, privileged accounts and email passwords stored in the various computers within the network by exploiting human vulnerabilities. The main aim of this research is to design and present a new program execution environment that will offer secure services for applications that prevent people bypassing the security of the system. It also aims to increase extensibility, flexibility and protection. These aims are not significantly different to those of some other operating systems, though this thesis aims to bring these protections to user space.
This thesis proposes a Secure Module Invocation System (SMIS) for software protection and, once implemented, measures its performance. Our system architecture utilises key components from the SPEEDOS operating system. The SMIS is designed to provide a trusted and secure program execution environment. The architectural model can be used to improve the security of non-secure applications. Protection in SMIS is implemented through various mechanisms such as capabilities and bracket routines, and also supports an information-hiding structure for user resources. These resources are referred to as modules. Capabilities are protected in SMIS by either other capabilities or by passwords. In SMIS, bracket routines are also significant because they provide the foundation for flexible protection and freely programmable access checks. SMIS implements the information-hiding concept, which prohibits direct access to the data of another module unless the client presents the SMIS with a capability that confers the suitable authority. Implementing this concept in SMIS enhances the flexibility of software systems by providing dependencies among software units. Also, SMIS supports a new security mechanism that allows users to qualify their modules. The invocation of the target module is then redirected to the suitable bracket routine(s). Without changing the role of capabilities, bracket routines may accept, or reject, access to the target module based on arbitrary rules. Brackets can be individually and dynamically incorporated with the target module at runtime. The bracketing technique permits users to implement any security policy they consider suitable. A prototype has been implemented to test the proposed environment and evaluate the outcomes of using the different approaches attackers use to damage applications. The results indicate that augmenting a non-secure module with a bracket routine can provide benefits for target modules and an overall benefit for software and applications. Further, adding bracket routines dynamically at runtime can effectively improve the flexibility and extensibility of the software system
PRODUCTION AT SMIS-37 ECR ION SOURCE
No full textAbstract This work presents the latest results of high current proton and deuteron beam production at SMIS 37 facility at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP RAS). This facility creates and heats up the plasma by 37.5 GHz gyrotron radiation with power up to 100 kW in a simple mirror trap meeting the ECR condition. High microwave power and frequency allow sustaining plasma of significantly higher density (Ne up to 2‧10 13 cm -3 ) in comparison to conventional ECRISes or other microwave ion sources. The low ion temperature, on the order of a few eV, is beneficial to produce ion beams with low emittance. Latest experiments at SMIS 37 were performed using a single-aperture two-electrode extraction system. Various diameters of plasma electrode apertures i.e. 5 mm, 7 mm, 10 mm, were tested yielding proton and deuteron beams with currents up to 500 mA with RMS emittance lower than 0.2 π‧mm‧mrad at extraction voltages up to 45 kV. The maximum beam current density was measured to be 800 mA/cm 2 . A possibility of further improvement through the development of an advanced extraction system is discussed
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
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