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The future of Cybersecurity in Italy: Strategic focus area
This volume has been created as a continuation of the previous one, with the aim of outlining a set of focus areas and actions that the Italian Nation research community considers essential. The book touches many aspects of cyber security, ranging from the definition of the infrastructure and controls needed to organize cyberdefence to the actions and technologies to be developed to be better protected, from the identification of the main technologies to be defended to the proposal of a set of horizontal actions for training, awareness raising, and risk management
Internet of Things (IoT) for Automated and Smart Applications
Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent technology paradigm that creates a global network of machines and devices that are capable of communicating with each other. Security cameras, sensors, vehicles, buildings, and software are examples of devices that can exchange data between each other. IoT is recognized as one of the most important areas of future technologies and is gaining vast recognition in a wide range of applications and fields related to smart homes and cities, military, education, hospitals, homeland security systems, transportation and autonomous connected cars, agriculture, intelligent shopping systems, and other modern technologies. This book explores the most important IoT automated and smart applications to help the reader understand the principle of using IoT in such applications
IoT-Enabled Health Monitoring and Assistive Systems for in Place Aging Dementia Patient and Elderly
Hospitals and nursing care homes are facing severe challenges such as lack of skilled workforces and cost explosion, among others. Especially, the western healthcare systems are headed over a cliff. German nursing care houses, hospitals, and government are working hard on solutions to overcome the crucial workforceâs crises. Therefore, they are planning to hire nursing-workforces from abroad. They would also like to motivate families with monetary incentives, such as tax-reduction, if they can care for their elderly and/or dementia family members at home. However, caring for a sick person at home is challenging for a working family member especially in the case the patient requests around-the-clock nursing care since elderly with cognitive impairments, people with physical disabilities, and people with dementia need (medical) assistance around the clock. The present study reveals an increasing tendency for family members to care for their sick family member at home despite the challenges and issues faced like the lack of time to intensively care for the sick person due to todayâs family lifestyle, challenging employment market, financial constraints, etc. The study reported in this chapter aims at providing family members willing to care for their sick member at home as long as possible with smart home automation enabled Patient@Home solution to effectively and efficiently care for their sick member despite working full time. People living in nursing care homes can also take benefit of the proposed system. Evidence shows the potential of the proposed system to effectively and efficiently assist in caring for people requesting nursing care around the clock. Though the health-related quality of life is positively impacted, patientâs satisfaction is increased (better quality of experience)
Youth alcohol and drug good practice guide 1: A framework for youth alcohol and other drug practice
This Guide outlines a framework for working with young people whose AOD use creates significant vulnerability to current or future harm. The target audience is practitioners who work with young people who have problematic AOD use and the managers of these practitioners. Areas of content include the elements of a framework for AOD practice, an appreciation of the developmental, social and institutional location of young people, key concepts and understandings regarding good youth centered context responsive practice, and key policy constructs and directions
Iowa Power Fund Board Project Report Update, July 29, 2009
Climate refers to the long-term course or condition of
weather, usually over a time scale of decades and longer.
It has been documented that our global climate is changing
(IPCC 2007, Copenhagen Diagnosis 2009), and Iowa
is no exception. In Iowa, statistically significant changes
in our precipitation, streamflow, nighttime minimum
temperatures, winter average temperatures, and dewpoint
humidity readings have occurred during the past
few decades.
Iowans are already living with warmer winters, longer
growing seasons, warmer nights, higher dew-point temperatures, increased humidity, greater annual streamflows, and more frequent severe precipitation events (Fig. 1-1) than were prevalent during the past 50 years. Some of the impacts of these changes could be construed as
positive, and some are negative, particularly the tendency
for greater precipitation events and flooding. In
the near-term, we may expect these trends to continue
as long as climate change is prolonged and exacerbated
by increasing greenhouse gas emissions globally from
the use of fossil fuels and fertilizers, the clearing of land, and agricultural and industrial emissions.
This report documents the impacts of changing climate
on Iowa during the past 50 years. It seeks to answer the
question, âWhat are the impacts of climate change in
Iowa that have been observed already?â And, âWhat are
the effects on public health, our flora and fauna, agriculture, and the general economy of Iowa?
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FIDE Congress 2020 - EU Competition Law and the Digital Economy: United Kingdom Report
This report was prepared for the 29th biennial Congress of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE) to be held in The Hague in May 2020. It is the national report for the United Kingdom in response to Topic 3 of the 2020 FIDE Congress, titled âEU Competition Law and the Digital Economyâ. This report offers an overview of UK competition enforcement in digital economy markets by answering twelve questions organised into four sections. Part A summarises key UK antitrust and merger decisions, agency publications, priorities and goals of enforcement in digital economy markets. Part B focuses upon the definition of markets and conceptualisation of market power by UK authorities in digital economy cases in light of their challenges and particularities. Part C offers a detailed overview of the issues underpinning UK antitrust and merger scrutiny in this field: the types of conduct investigated, relevant factors and concepts, theories of harm, efficiency justifications and remedies in digital economy cases. Finally, Part D identifies the potential for incoherent enforcement in this field from two different sources: the overlap between UK competition law and ex ante regulatory regimes (e.g. consumer protection, data protection); and the overlap between the powers of various UK competition decision-makers (e.g. sectoral regulators, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and the courts)
The impact of microservices: an empirical analysis of the emerging software architecture
Dissertação de mestrado em Informatics EngineeringThe applicationsâ development paradigm has faced changes in recent years, with modern development being
characterized by the need to continuously deliver new software iterations. With great affinity with those principles,
microservices is a software architecture which features characteristics that potentially promote multiple quality
attributes often required by modern, large-scale applications. Its recent growth in popularity and acceptance in
the industry made this architectural style often described as a form of modernizing applications that allegedly
solves all the traditional monolithic applicationsâ inconveniences. However, there are multiple worth mentioning
costs associated with its adoption, which seem to be very vaguely described in existing empirical research, being
often summarized as "the complexity of a distributed system". The adoption of microservices provides the
agility to achieve its promised benefits, but to actually reach them, several key implementation principles have
to be honored. Given that it is still a fairly recent approach to developing applications, the lack of established
principles and knowledge from development teams results in the misjudgment of both costs and values of this
architectural style. The outcome is often implementations that conflict with its promised benefits. In order to
implement a microservices-based architecture that achieves its alleged benefits, there are multiple patterns and
methodologies involved that add a considerable amount of complexity. To evaluate its impact in a concrete and
empirical way, one same e-commerce platform was developed from scratch following a monolithic architectural
style and two architectural patterns based on microservices, featuring distinct inter-service communication and
data management mechanisms. The effort involved in dealing with eventual consistency, maintaining a communication
infrastructure, and managing data in a distributed way portrayed significant overheads not existent in the
development of traditional applications. Nonetheless, migrating from a monolithic architecture to a microservicesbased
is currently accepted as the modern way of developing software and this ideology is not often contested,
nor the involved technical challenges are appropriately emphasized. Sometimes considered over-engineering,
other times necessary, this dissertation contributes with empirical data from insights that showcase the impact
of the migration to microservices in several topics. From the trade-offs associated with the use of specific patterns,
the development of the functionalities in a distributed way, and the processes to assure a variety of quality
attributes, to performance benchmarks experiments and the use of observability techniques, the entire development
process is described and constitutes the object of study of this dissertation.O paradigma de desenvolvimento de aplicaçÔes tem visto alteraçÔes nos Ășltimos anos, sendo o desenvolvimento
moderno caracterizado pela necessidade de entrega contĂnua de novas iteraçÔes de software. Com
grande afinidade com esses princĂpios, microsserviços sĂŁo uma arquitetura de software que conta com caracterĂsticas
que potencialmente promovem mĂșltiplos atributos de qualidade frequentemente requisitados por aplicaçÔes
modernas de grandes dimensÔes. O seu recente crescimento em popularidade e aceitação na industria
fez com que este estilo arquitetural se comumente descrito como uma forma de modernizar aplicaçÔes que
alegadamente resolve todos os inconvenientes apresentados por aplicaçÔes monolĂticas tradicionais. Contudo,
existem vårios custos associados à sua adoção, aparentemente descritos de forma muito vaga, frequentemente
sumarizados como a "complexidade de um sistema distribuĂdo". A adoção de microsserviços fornece a agilidade
para atingir os seus benefĂcios prometidos, mas para os alcançar, vĂĄrios princĂpios de implementação
devem ser honrados. Dado que ainda se trata de uma forma recente de desenvolver aplicaçÔes, a falta de
princĂpios estabelecidos e conhecimento por parte das equipas de desenvolvimento resulta em julgamentos
errados dos custos e valores deste estilo arquitetural. O resultado geralmente são implementaçÔes que entram
em conflito com os seus benefĂcios prometidos. De modo a implementar uma arquitetura baseada em
microsserviços com os benefĂcios prometidos existem mĂșltiplos padrĂ”es que adicionam considerĂĄvel complexidade.
De modo a avaliar o impacto dos microsserviços de forma concreta e empĂrica, foi desenvolvida uma
mesma plataforma e-commerce de raiz segundo uma arquitetura monolĂtica e duas arquitetura baseadas em
microsserviços, contando com diferentes mecanismos de comunicação entre os serviços. O esforço envolvido
em lidar com consistĂȘncia eventual, manter a infraestrutura de comunicação e gerir os dados de uma forma distribuĂda
representaram desafios não existentes no desenvolvimento de aplicaçÔes tradicionais. Apesar disso, a
ideologia de migração de uma arquitetura monolĂtica para uma baseada em microsserviços Ă© atualmente aceite
como a forma moderna de desenvolver aplicaçÔes, não sendo frequentemente contestada nem os seus desafios
técnicos são apropriadamente enfatizados. Por vezes considerado overengineering, outras vezes necessårio,
a presente dissertação visa contribuir com dados pråticos relativamente ao impacto da migração para arquiteturas
baseadas em microsserviços em diversos tópicos. Desde os trade-offs envolvidos no uso de padrÔes
especĂficos, o desenvolvimento das funcionalidades de uma forma distribuĂda e nos processos para assegurar
uma variedade de atributos de qualidade, até anålise de benchmarks de performance e uso de técnicas de
observabilidade, todo o desenvolvimento é descrito e constitui o objeto de estudo da dissertação
Valuing the SDG Prize in Food and Agriculture: Unlocking Business Opportunities to Accelerate Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Business opportunities in the implementation of the SDGs related to food could be worth over US320 billion per year.These 14 opportunities could also generate almost 80 million jobs by 2030, which represents around 2 per cent of the forecasted labour force.More than two-thirds of the value of the opportunities, and over 90 per cent of the potential job creation, is located in developing countries. That includes roughly 21 million jobs in Africa, 22 million jobs in India, 12 million jobs in China, and 15 million jobs in the rest of Asian developing countries
New Trends in Development of Services in the Modern Economy
The services sector strategic development unites a multitude of economic and managerial aspects and is one of the most important problems of economic management. Many researches devoted to this industry study are available. Most of them are performed in the traditional aspect of the voluminous calendar approach to strategic management, characteristic of the national scientific school. Such an approach seems archaic, forming false strategic benchmarks.
The services sector is of special scientific interest in this context due to the fact that the social production structure to the services development model attraction in many countries suggests transition to postindustrial economy type where the services sector is a system-supporting sector of the economy. Actively influencing the economy, the services sector in the developed countries dominates in the GDP formation, primary capital accumulation, labor, households final consumption and, finally, citizens comfort of living.
However, a clear understanding of the services sector as a hyper-sector permeating all spheres of human activity has not yet been fully developed, although interest in this issue continues to grow among many authors.
Target of strategic management of the industry development setting requires substantive content and the services sector target value assessment
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