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* The ELS model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary
of the Air Force for Air Force computing systems and is a candidate
for DoD systems under the Joint Information Environment Program. *
The book is intended for enterprise IT architecture developers,
application developers, and IT security professionals. * This is a
unique approach to end-to-end security and fills a niche in the
market.
The first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of
any state to appear in fifty years, Long Green: The Rise and Fall
of Tobacco in South Carolina explores the advances and retreats of
tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the
colonial period to its heydey at the turn of the century, the
impact of the Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and on to
present-day controversies about health risks due to smoking.
The book describes Pee Dee farmers' struggles against large
manufacturers and attempts at industry reforms and covers the
Tri-State Cooperative of the 1920s and the Hoover administration
Federal Farm Bureau's program for tobacco that forged a lasting and
successful partnership between tobacco growers and the U.S.
government. The technological revolutions of the post-World War II
era and subsequent tobacco economy hardships due to increasingly
negative public perception of tobacco use are also highlighted. The
book details the roles and motives of key individuals in the
development of tobacco culture, including firsthand experiences as
related by older farmers and warehousemen, and offers informed
speculations on the future of tobacco culture. Long Green allows
readers to better understand the full significance of this cash
crop in the history and economy of South Carolina and the American
South.
In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six
American writers--Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr.,
Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman--have
artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt
cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of
spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban
sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the
subjective response to the race-making power of space.
Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary
studies, this book presents Chretien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a
daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in
court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates
Erec et Enide, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in
various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings
such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the
weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and
politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of
Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the
tale have not uncommonly presented Chretien's poem as a decorous
'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and fin'amors,
between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these
forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key
scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by
questions and skeletons from various closets.
The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a
number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast
Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers,
transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment
industry and asylum seekers and refugees who are the victims of
domestic violence.
In this collection, over 40 researchers across the social sciences
offer a series of engaging accounts reflecting on dilemmas and
issues that they experienced while researching and communicating
research on personal life. Their insights are food for thought for
students, researchers, professionals and anyone using, planning or
conducting research on families and relationships, encouraging
critical reflection on the readers' own processes. Researchers'
accounts are organised under and commented on by insightful
overviews. David Morgan leads with consideration of framing
research. Kay Tisdall prefaces the next set by reflections on
ethical considerations in research engagements. Angus Bancroft and
Stuart Aitken each comment on researchers' accounts from 'in the
field' focusing on the research relationship and the complexities
of time and place. The final accounts are prefaced by Lynn
Jamieson's discussion of dealing with dilemmas in interpreting and
representing families and relationships and by Sarah Morton's and
Sandra Nutley's reflections on getting research into policy and
practice.
System Test and Diagnosis is the first book on test and diagnosis
at the system level, defined as any aggregation of related elements
that together form an entity of sufficient complexity for which it
is impractical to treat all of the elements at the lowest level of
detail. The ideas presented emphasize that it is possible to
diagnose complex systems efficiently. Since the notion of system is
hierarchical, these ideas are applicable to all levels. The
philosophy is presented in the context of a model-based approach,
using the information flow model, that focuses on the information
provided by the tests rather than the functions embedded in the
system. Detailed algorithms are offered for evaluating system
testability, performing efficient diagnosis, verifying and
validating the models, and constructing an architecture for system
maintenance. Several advanced algorithms, not commonly available in
existing diagnosis tools, are discussed, including reasoning with
inexact or uncertain test data, breaking large problems into
manageable smaller problems, diagnosing systems with time sensitive
information and time dependent tests and learning from experience.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides
motivation for careful development of the subject and the second
part provides the tools necessary for analyzing system testability
and computing diagnostic strategies. The third part presents
advanced topics in diagnosis. Several case studies are provided,
including a single detailed case study. Smaller case studies
describe experiences from actual applications of the methods
discussed. The detailed case study walks the reader through a
complete analysis of a system to illustrate the concepts and
describe the analyses that are possible. All case studies are based
upon real systems that have been modeled for the purposes of
diagnosis. System Test and Diagnosis is the culmination of nearly
twelve years of research into diagnosis modeling and its
applications. It is designed as a primary reference for engineers
and practitioners interested in system test and diagnosis.
"System level testing is becoming increasingly important. It is
driven by the incessant march of complexity ... which is forcing us
to renew our thinking on the processes and procedures that we apply
to test and diagnosis of systems. In fact, the complexity defines
the system itself which, for our purposes, is Aany aggregation of
related elements that together form an entity of sufficient
complexity for which it is impractical to treat all of the elements
at the lowest level of detail . System approaches embody the
partitioning of problems into smaller inter-related subsystems that
will be solved together. Thus, words like hierarchical, dependence,
inference, model, and partitioning are frequent throughout this
text. Each of the authors deals with the complexity issue in a
similar fashion, but the real value in a collected work such as
this is in the subtle differences that may lead to synthesized
approaches that allow even more progress. The works included in
this volume are an outgrowth of the 2nd International Workshop on
System Test and Diagnosis held in Alexandria, Virginia in April
1998. The first such workshop was held in Freiburg, Germany, six
years earlier. In the current workshop nearly 50 experts from
around the world struggled over issues concerning the subject... In
this volume, a select group of workshop participants was invited to
provide a chapter that expanded their workshop presentations and
incorporated their workshop interactions... While we have attempted
to present the work as one volume and requested some revision to
the work, the content of the individual chapters was not edited
significantly. Consequently, you will see different approaches to
solving the sameproblems and occasional disagreement between
authors as to definitions or the importance of factors. ... The
works collected in this volume represent the state-of-the-art in
system test and diagnosis, and the authors are at the leading edge
of that science...." From the Preface
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This title explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work'
- tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading.
It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of
organisations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in
which dirty work identities are managed.
Enterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World
follows on from the authors' first book on Enterprise Level
Security (ELS), which covered the basic concepts of ELS and the
discoveries made during the first eight years of its development.
This book follows on from this to give a discussion of advanced
topics and solutions, derived from 16 years of research, pilots,
and operational trials in putting an enterprise system together.
The chapters cover specific advanced topics derived from painful
mistakes and numerous revisions of processes. This book covers many
of the topics omitted from the first book including multi-factor
authentication, cloud key management, enterprise change management,
entity veracity, homomorphic computing, device management, mobile
ad hoc, big data, mediation, and several other topics. The ELS
model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary of the
Air Force for Air Force computing systems and is a candidate for
DoD systems under the Joint Information Environment Program. The
book is intended for enterprise IT architecture developers,
application developers, and IT security professionals. This is a
unique approach to end-to-end security and fills a niche in the
market.
"Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly
apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not
only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen
and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the
opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and
invisibility"--
Exploring how men in service and caring occupations (cabin crew,
primary school teachers, nurses and librarians) both 'do' and
'undo' gender as they manage the potential mismatch between gender
and occupational identity, this book engages with the key
theoretical concepts of identity, visibility and emotions to
examine men's experiences.
Improvement of the world's livestock industry necessitates input
from many directions. Planning by a host of national and
international agencies is required in order to provide optimal
stimulus in very diverse areas ranging from formulation of laws and
incentives that stimulate competition yet prevent undue
competition, to the optimal provision of credit. Planning is needed
to carry out a complex array of interrelated research. The purpose
of this book is specifically tasked with setting forth frameworks
and methods for evaluation of investments and associated economic
decision-making in the livestock industries of developing
countries. Economists will find this book useful because it
synthesizes .much material into a cohesive whole--material that is
often presented in a cursory manner or overlooked as emphasis has
shifted to sophisticated quantitative techniques.
Enterprise Level Security 2: Advanced Topics in an Uncertain World
follows on from the authors' first book on Enterprise Level
Security (ELS), which covered the basic concepts of ELS and the
discoveries made during the first eight years of its development.
This book follows on from this to give a discussion of advanced
topics and solutions, derived from 16 years of research, pilots,
and operational trials in putting an enterprise system together.
The chapters cover specific advanced topics derived from painful
mistakes and numerous revisions of processes. This book covers many
of the topics omitted from the first book including multi-factor
authentication, cloud key management, enterprise change management,
entity veracity, homomorphic computing, device management, mobile
ad hoc, big data, mediation, and several other topics. The ELS
model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary of the
Air Force for Air Force computing systems and is a candidate for
DoD systems under the Joint Information Environment Program. The
book is intended for enterprise IT architecture developers,
application developers, and IT security professionals. This is a
unique approach to end-to-end security and fills a niche in the
market.
"The nations of Subsaharan Africa experienced declining levels of
food production per capita throughout the 1970s and early 1980s,
particularly in the area of livestock production. Addressing that
problem, the authors of this book assess in a systems context the
environmental, biological, and social constraints on future African
livestock development and consider prospects for improving
productivity, They focus especially on changes needed in production
and marketing systems, pointing to important policy considerations
. The book is divided into four parts containing twenty-one
chapters, each authored by one or more respective authorities in
his or her field. Each section in its own way addresses the entire
set of questions; topics include aspects of animal breeding and
nutrition, anthropology, economics, ecology, farming systems,
governmental policy, land tenure, marketing, modelling, and
veterinary medicine."
The Japanese Cattle industry has been undergoing major changes for
the past three decades. During the 1950's and 1960's mechanized
power rapidly. The process of beef industry structure change
accelerated in the 1970's as medium scale feedlots came into being,
regional packing plants were established, and the beef marketing
system matured. Economic forces, both within and external to the
industry. A major objective of this book is to test the authors'
hypothesis that beef production by Japan's cattle industry could
become competitive with imported beef.
Enterprise Level Security: Securing Information Systems in an
Uncertain World provides a modern alternative to the fortress
approach to security. The new approach is more distributed and has
no need for passwords or accounts. Global attacks become much more
difficult, and losses are localized, should they occur. The
security approach is derived from a set of tenets that form the
basic security model requirements. Many of the changes in
authorization within the enterprise model happen automatically.
Identities and claims for access occur during each step of the
computing process. Many of the techniques in this book have been
piloted. These techniques have been proven to be resilient, secure,
extensible, and scalable. The operational model of a distributed
computer environment defense is currently being implemented on a
broad scale for a particular enterprise. The first section of the
book comprises seven chapters that cover basics and philosophy,
including discussions on identity, attributes, access and
privilege, cryptography, the cloud, and the network. These chapters
contain an evolved set of principles and philosophies that were not
apparent at the beginning of the project. The second section,
consisting of chapters eight through twenty-two, contains technical
information and details obtained by making painful mistakes and
reworking processes until a workable formulation was derived.
Topics covered in this section include claims-based authentication,
credentials for access claims, claims creation, invoking an
application, cascading authorization, federation, and content
access control. This section also covers delegation, the enterprise
attribute ecosystem, database access, building enterprise software,
vulnerability analyses, the enterprise support desk, and network
defense.
Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary
creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and
their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of
religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the
disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics
and law - examine the intellectual and social investments
characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent such as the
Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia
and those who knowingly or unknowingly bent or broke the rules,
creating their own 'unofficial orthodoxies'. Attempts to
understand, police and eradicate all these, through methods such as
the Inquisition, required no less ingenuity. The ambivalent dynamic
evident in the tensions between coercion and dissent is still
recognisable and productive in the world today.
* The ELS model of enterprise security is endorsed by the Secretary
of the Air Force for Air Force computing systems and is a candidate
for DoD systems under the Joint Information Environment Program. *
The book is intended for enterprise IT architecture developers,
application developers, and IT security professionals. * This is a
unique approach to end-to-end security and fills a niche in the
market.
"The nations of Subsaharan Africa experienced declining levels of
food production per capita throughout the 1970s and early 1980s,
particularly in the area of livestock production. Addressing that
problem, the authors of this book assess in a systems context the
environmental, biological, and social constraints on future African
livestock development and consider prospects for improving
productivity, They focus especially on changes needed in production
and marketing systems, pointing to important policy considerations
. The book is divided into four parts containing twenty-one
chapters, each authored by one or more respective authorities in
his or her field. Each section in its own way addresses the entire
set of questions; topics include aspects of animal breeding and
nutrition, anthropology, economics, ecology, farming systems,
governmental policy, land tenure, marketing, modelling, and
veterinary medicine."
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