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A Taxonomy of Network and Computer Attack Methodologies
No full textSince the invention of computers and networks, people have found various ways to attack them. Attacks over the years have ranged from using a sledge hammer on a computer, to advanced distributed denial of service attacks. This research focuses on computer and network attacks and providing a taxonomy of them. This is to help combat new attacks, improve computer and network security and to provide consistency in language when describing attacks. A wide range of computer and network attacks are examined to provide both a survey of the field and to provide a basis on which to build the proposed taxonomy. The proposed taxonomy consists of four dimensions which provide a holistic taxonomy and to deal with inherent problems in the computer and network attack field. The first dimension covers the attack vector and the main behaviour of the attack. The second dimension allows for classification of the attack targets. Vulnerabilities are classified in the third dimension and payloads in the fourth. The taxonomy is briefly evaluated and is found to work well, with a few areas that could be improved. Acknowledgements Firstly I would like to thank my supervisor, Associate Professor Ray Hunt. This research project has been interesting and I have appreciated having you as a supervisor. Thank you to Jay Garden, Nick Lavery an
Needs assessment for administrative office manager associate degree program in the Western Wisconsin Technical College district
No full textPlan BThe changing role of the administrative office manager is creating opportunities for individuals in the office occupations with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities. In Western Wisconsin, two office management occupations, administrative support supervisors and administrative services managers, are expected to have a growth rate of 14.8% and 12%, respectively, between 1998 and 2008. Currently, there is not an associate degree program in the Western Wisconsin Technical College (WWTC ) district, or the state of Wisconsin, to train administrative office managers. A needs assessment was undertaken to determine if there is a need for an associate degree program for administrative office manager in the Western Wisconsin Technical College district. The needs assessment surveyed a stratified sample of employers from the WWTC district. Five business program advisory committees were selected for the survey. The advisory committees consisted of sixty-two members, representing forty-three business. To ensure the survey reached the employment specialist, a telephone call was made to each advisory committee member to obtain the name of the employment specialist. To avoid the employment specialist receiving duplicate surveys, businesses participating in multiple advisory committees received only one survey document. The needs assessment survey was developed to be used in preparation of a Program Investigation for new programs in the Wisconsin Technical College System. The Program Investigation includes a needs assessment as a requirement for development of new programs. If a need exists for a new program in the WWTC District, the Program Investigation is prepared and submitted the WWTC District Board for approval. Upon approval by the WWTC District Board, the Program Investigation is submitted to the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) Board for final approval. No new programs can be implemented within the state without approval of the WTCS Board
The Supervisor\u27s Associate: An Intelligent Shop Management System for Production Supervision
No full textConventional software approaches, such as Management Information Systems or Decision Support Systems, are seldom adequate to support the production supervisor. This insufficiency derives from the algorithmic methods that form the foundation of these systems. In practice, the majority of supervisory decision-making utilizes heuristic and intuitive techniques, as opposed to algorithmic methods. In view of the concern for the productivity of the manufacturing area, there is a definite need for the development of a software system to more fully support the manufacturing supervisor function. The application of artificial intelligence was proposed for this management support system. The approach of this research was to first formulate a generalized model, and from it develop a knowledge-based system. The model focuses on the supervisor\u27s planning and control responsibilities, from both the perspective of the information support needs and those underlying heuristics used by the supervisor to generate solutions. It provides a linkage of facts available from the factory information system and rules obtained from analysis of the supervisor\u27s function. As proof of the concept, a prototype expert system was developed based upon the supervisory model. This prototype system is referred to as the Supervisor\u27s Associate. It is designed to work within the goals and with the information supplied by the factory information systems, access their output, and focus it in support of the production supervisor\u27s needs. The Supervisor\u27s Associate is intended to provide first-line management with a software tool which will improve the productivity, efficiency and effectivity of the manufacturing area
Course grades and standardized tests as predictors of successful completion of the associate degree nursing program at Lakeshore Technical College
No full textPlan BDue to the increasingly severe shortage of registered nurses, Lakeshore Technical College (LTC) is now more aware of, and more determined to deal with the issues of student recruitment and retention. Successful completion of the Associate Degree Nursing Program (A.D.N.) at Lakeshore Technical College depends on many factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic to the program. Variables that affect the learner such as family concerns, health, or program related issues might lead to problems in school related areas such as retention. Student records of 174 LTC associate degree nursing students, enrolling in the program in and after January of 1997, who graduated, failed, or withdrew from the program by May 2000, will be analyzed. Grades received in specific required general education courses, pre-nursing required science courses, and scores received on the American College Test (ACT) or Assessment of Student Skills for Entry Test (ASSET) will be studied. This data will be examined to determine if a pattern exists between grades, standardized testing scores, and retention in the LTC associate degree-nursing (A.D.N.) program. Analysis of the data obtained in this research may identify factors that could alert faculty members to academic problems and potential failure of the student. It would also allow for early intervention to aid the student through the use of guidance, faculty or peer assistance, and promote successful completion of the program
Evaluation of instruction for the graduating class enrolled in the Milwaukee Area Technical College Associate Degree Program Fire Science
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An evaluation of the graduates of the associate degree nursing at Anderson College, Anderson, Indiana
No full textThe primary purpose of this research was to determine whether terminal objectives of the associate degree program in nursing at Anderson College were being met by the first class of graduates--those who graduated in June, 1975. The study was done to determine if a difference existed between the ratings of competency by the graduate and by his/her supervisor. If there were areas of difference, what were the differences and what were the degrees of difference?The data were collected utilizing two rating scales consisting of fifteen statements of competencies for a beginning nurse practitioner graduate of Anderson College, Anderson, Indiana. Two questionnaires were used, one for the graduate and one for the supervisor, with identical rating scales. The rating scales were devised from a list of terminal objectives set up by the faculty of the department of nursing during the formative stages of the nursing program. These questionnaires were validated by two separate juries of nursing experts.The jury concerned with the questionnaire being sent to the graduate was made up of eight members of the department of nursing at Anderson College. Twenty head nurses from St. Johns Hospital, Anderson, Indiana, composed the jury that validated the questionnaire being sent to the employer. The employer was requested to have the graduate's immediate supervisor return the completed form to the department of nursing, Anderson College.A sample of seventy-five graduates of the first class of nursing students of the associate degree program, Anderson College and forty-three employers of various nursing services were used for the study population. Each graduate nurse was mailed a questionnaire with a request for permission to contact his/her employer. Of the seventy-five questionnaires sent to the graduate nurses, forty-five (sixty percent) of the forms were returned. Two graduates who responded would not give permission to contact their employers. The return of the questionnaires from the supervisors was ninety-nine percent. Of the forty-three forms sent out to the supervisors, only one form was not returned.The graduates responding to the questionnaire included forty-two females and three males, members of the first graduating class of the associate degree program in nursing, Anderson College, June, 1975.Results of the rating scale were evaluated by utilizing the t-test. Since the graduates rated themselves and were also rated by their supervisors, the groups were matched. Consequently, the results were analyzed with a t-test of matched samples.Thesis (Ed.S.
How to Thrive in Associate Staff Ministry
No full textCHAPTER 1. Finding Satisfaction in Following God\u27s Direction
CHAPTER2. Working Well with Your Supervisor and Fellow Associates
CHAPTER 3. Foundational Attitudes and Commitments
CHAPTER4. Church Environments that Enable Thriving
CHAPTER 5. Sustaining Personal Spiritual Vitality
CHAPTER 6. Building Supportive Relationships
CHAPTER 7. Strengthening the Home Front
CHAPTER 8. Savoring Joys and Weathering Storms
CHAPTER 9. Thriving Skills for Female Associate Staff
CHAPTER 10. Veterans\u27 Advice to Wanna-bes and Newbies
Introduction to Appendixes A and B - For Those Who Care about Associate Staff
APPENDIX A. The Valued Supervisor
APPENDIX B. The Supportive Church Board
APPENDIX C. The Thriving in Associate Staff Ministry Study
APPENDIX D. Professional Organizations for Associate Staff Membershttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1526/thumbnail.jp
The Rutgers CAP Project Design Associate
No full textThe Design Associate is intended to be an interactive environment that supports decision-making, performance evaluation, design-record management and knowledge acquisition tasks. The system is specifically intended to handle the design of complex, physical structures, such as ships and planes, among others. Two key difficulties characterize this class of design problems: (1) Design goals depend on global properties of an artifact. (2) Evaluation of the performance of an artifact is computationally expensive. The Design Associate provides a set of tools for attacking each of these problems: Global constraints are attacked by methods of automatically abstracting and decomposing search spaces. Computational costs of evaluation are attacked by methods of intelligently selecting evaluation models at varying levels of approximation. Future work will extend the Design Associate by building a Model Associate for automatically generating new performance evaluation models. This extension is intended to support innovative design by diminishing the time and monetary costs of developing new models needed to evaluate radically new designs. Research on the Design Associate is expected to contribute to the field of Computer-Aided Design by formalizing the generic task structure of complex, physical structure design. It is also expected to contribute to the field of Artificial Intelligence, by attacking problems such as search control, search space formulation, abstraction, decomposition, model selection and model formation.Technical report CAP-TR-
Does Downloading PowerPoint Slides Before the Lecture Lead to Better Student Achievement?: Reply
No full textThis reply responds to a comment by Cannon (2011) that opens the debate on consistency of the effect of downloading PowerPoint slides before lectures on students’ exam performance. Cannon (2011) points out potential endogeneity problems in Chen and Lin (2008) and attempts to explore the unconditional mean effect of downloading PowerPoint slides for the full sample. In this reply, we firstly argue that the estimates in our original article are consistent since the effect of interest is the “conditional†treatment effect but not the unconditional mean effect. We provide explanations for our rationale of estimating the “conditional†treatment effect. Secondly, we propose a modified downloading variable to replicate Cannon’s analysis. Our results suggest that downloading PowerPoint slides before the exam does not produce a significant effect on absent students’ exam performance which is different from the results in Cannon (2011). Our analysis does support Cannon’s argument that students fixed effects are different across different attendance status.
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