Developing and evaluating a five minute phishing awareness video

Confidence tricksters have always defrauded the unwary. The computer era has merely extended their range and made it possible for them to target anyone in the world who has an email address. Nowadays, they send phishing messages that are specially crafted to deceive. Improving user awareness has the potential to reduce their effectiveness. We have previously developed and empirically-validated phishing awareness programmes. Our programmes are specifically designed to neutralize common phish-related misconceptions and teach people how to detect phishes. Many companies and individuals are already using our programmes, but a persistent niggle has been the amount of time required to complete the awareness programme. This paper reports on how we responded by developing and evaluating a condensed phishing awareness video that delivered phishing awareness more efficiently. Having watched our video, participants in our evaluation were able to detect phishing messages significantly more reliably right after watching the video (compared to before watching the video). This ability was also demonstrated after a retention period of eight weeks after first watching the video

Current developments with Inclusive Education Policy and Practice in Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina

This article builds on a previous publication in the European Journal of Special Needs Education (Tsokova & Becirevic (2009) and examines further developments of inclusive education in Bulgaria (BG) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The paper seeks to provide local and cross-national insight into the current state of and influences on developments with inclusive education. The underlying research considers relevant local and international literature and education policies, and explores the perspectives of a small sample of key policy makers’ from both countries. The findings suggest that inclusive education reforms as they relate to children with special educational needs and disabilities in both countries face some unique and other similar challenges associated with external and internal pressures embedded in historical, political, economic and educational circumstances. The authors argue that democratisation of the inclusive education policy making process and bottom-up grass root developments are essential for a sustainable reform that could go beyond integration and policy rhetoric

Towards Enhancing Academic Standards And Ethical Professionalism At Public Universities.

Institutions of learning particularly universities in Africa have been experiencing some challenges. Here in Kenya these challenges include lack of funds (cash straps), poor management of resources, appointment into positions of power men and women not well trained in leadership and management thus lacking in skills required to run those institutions. At times these institutions are affected by strikes based on the staff or student unions’ demands. The elevation of various technical colleges into university status in the last few years coincided with a period of rapid expansion in the university expansion in Africa. This has been due to demographic and political pressures that had developed from the years of colonial and previous regimes neglect. Demographically and during the last decades, university education was perceived to be a preserve of a few and most those who supported the status quo of some dictatorial and tyrannical government. Hence these institutions were being built in those areas where the political class had a wide range of followers.  In recent times most African states have had political and economic transformation and as such university education has been liberalized to the extent that almost every country has its own university. It is during this time most private and public universities have emerged. The expansion has taken place at a time when drought, ethnic tension and overall decline in the macro-economic sector, have had negative effects even on the government to be able to finance these institutions. These challenges have really affected the productivity level of public universities as some of their employees have resulted to “moonlighting” and some joining the private sector altogether due to attractive payment. One can easily observe that the impressive expansion of the student enrolments in these institutions has been achieved without a proportionate rise in resources. The most applicable and relevant question would therefore be whether public universities’ rapid expansion has exceeded their capacity to sustain quality education thus making the graduates to give back to the community. Have our public universities been able to produce job-creators instead of job seekers? This article highlights some of the challenges and threats to better education and research and proposes few ideas that could be applied to assist public universities maintain their reputation and their n level of academic professionalism. Key Words: ENHANCING, UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, STANDARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHIC

Methane emissions inventory verification in southern California

Methane (CH4) and carbon monoxide (CO) mixing ratios were measured at an air quality monitoring station near the Mt. Wilson (MW) Observatory in southern California starting in the spring of 2007. Diurnal variation and mixing ratio correlation (R2 = 0.81) were observed. The correlation results observed agree with previous aircraft measurements collected over the greater Los Angeles (LA) metropolitan area. The consistent agreement between CH4 and CO indicates these gases are well-mixed before reaching the sampling site and the emission source contributions of both compounds are reasonably constant. Since CH4 and CO are considered non-reactive on the time scale of dispersion within the LA urban area and their emission sources are likely to be similarly distributed (e.g., associated with human activities) they are subject to similar scales of atmospheric transport and dilution. This behavior allows the relationship of CH4 and CO to be applied for estimation of CH4 emissions using well-documented CO emissions. Applying this relationship a "top-down" CH4 inventory was calculated for LA County based on the measurements observed at MW and compared with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) "bottom-up" CH4 emissions inventory based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommended methodologies. The "top-down" CH4 emissions inventory is approximately one-third greater than CARB's "bottom-up" inventory for LA County. Considering the uncertainties in both methodologies, the different CH4 emissions inventory approaches are in good agreement, although some under and/or uninventoried CH4 sources may exist

Microstructural Characterization of Graphite Spheroids in Ductile Iron

The present work brings new insights by transmission electron microscopy allowing disregarding or supporting some of the models proposed for spheroidal growth of graphite in cast irons. Nodules consist of sectors made of graphite plates elongated along a hai direction and stack on each other with their c axis aligned with the radial direction. These plates are the elementary units for spheroidal growth and a calculation supports the idea that new units continuously nucleate at the ledge between sectors

An anatomy of IrisCode for precise phase representation

Author name used in this publication: Adams KongAuthor name used in this publication: David ZhangBiometrics Research Centre, Department of ComputingRefereed conference paper2006-2007 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paperVersion of RecordPublishe

Linear confinement without dilaton in bottom-up holography for walking technicolour

In PRD78(2008)055005 [arXiv:0805.1503 [hep-ph]] and PRD79(2009)075004 [arXiv:0809.1324 [hep-ph]], we constructed a holographic description of walking technicolour theories using both a hard- and a soft-wall model. Here, we show that the dilaton field becomes phenomenologically irrelevant for the spectrum of spin-one resonances once a term is included in the Lagrangian that mixes the Goldstone bosons and the longitudinal components of the axial vector mesons. We show how this mixing affects our previous results and we make predictions about how this description of technicolour can be tested.Comment: 7 pages, no figure