Protection Of Assets Research Articles

Fostering Protective Assets Among Syrian Refugee Girls Who Experience Child Marriage: Findings from a Formative Program Evaluation

The International Rescue Committee's Life Skills Tailored Package for Early Marriage focuses on engaged, married, and divorced Syrian refugee girls aged 13-18 living in Lebanon. This paper details findings from a qualitative program evaluation. In-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) explored participants' viewpoints about program components. IDIs engaged program staff and adolescent girls. FGDs included adolescent girls, husbands/fathers, and mothers/mothers-in-law. Data were audio-recorded, transcribed, and assessed using inductive content analysis. Three themes emerged: (1) engaging influencers with discretion facilitated girls' participation, (2) reaching out to vulnerable girls required foresight and flexibility, and (3) participation fostered development of personal resources and adaptive capacities among adolescent girls, who described improvements in self-confidence for decision-making/time management, reproductive health knowledge, emotional regulation/understanding of healthy relationships, and self-protection. Efforts to improve psychosocial and reproductive health of refugee adolescent girls experiencing child marriage should integrate lessons learned through this program.

The Implementation of Information Security for the Inventory System in a Municipality of Lima-Perú

In recent years, digital transformation has played an important role in all companies investing in technology. This investment greatly contributes to the daily tasks that companies carry out and can mean notable business growth. Also, it brings vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious people who, for any reason, seek to damage or appropriate the company's resources, thus directly or indirectly affecting business operations, which is why it is necessary to prevent these acts of vulnerability with the realization of information security. That is why the materials used to implement information security are explained in this work. The purpose of the research work is to identify, analyze, and evaluate to deal with the risks, thus better controlling the risks. This allowed us to land it in the conclusions made based on the objective and methodology used. It allowed us to have a sequence divided into three stages: initiation, planning, and execution. This helps us identify the infrastructure, times, risks, controls, policies, and information assets, in addition to evaluating and treating each risk identified in the District Municipality of Jesás María. This study showed that the implementation of information security has a positive impact since it helps make decisions for the protection of information assets.

CROWDFUNDING WAQF MODEL: PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM DANA WAKAF YANG DIKUMPULKAN MELALUI PLATFORM CROWDFUNDING

Nowadays, there is an innovation of collecting waqf fund through crowdfunding that will help nazhir’s responsibility in managing and developing waqf assets. This method well-known as Crowdfunding Waqf Model that classified into donation-based crowdfunding. In accordance with unissued regulation regarding donation-based crowdfunding, collecting waqf fund through crowdfunding is an urgent topic to be discussed concerning how is the legal protection of waqf assets in the form of collecting waqf fund through crowdfunding. This research uses normative juridical approach, namely outlining existing problems and discuss according to applicable regulations. The steps of this research encompass steps, i.e: library research of using secondary data and field research in the form of interview. This research concludes that the legal protection in collecting waqf fund through crowdfunding inadequate and still relies on transparency and integration with related regulations. It is necessary to reform waqf regulation in Indonesia that encompass technology development, and creating regulation on donation-based crowdfunding specifically in order to creating legal certainty for the collecting waqf fund activity through technology.

GRASP‐ILS and set cover hybrid heuristic for the synchronized team orienteering problem with time windows

AbstractWildfires are a natural phenomenon that regularly occurs in many terrestrial ecosystems. Due to global warming, the rate and the span of wildfires have remarkably increased during the last years, causing important economic losses and human casualties. Several initiatives have been undertaken in the last years in order to apply operations research tools to help firefighting teams schedule and optimize their protection activities when dealing with wildfires. In this context, a recent variant of the Team Orienteering Problem, referred to as the Asset Protection Problem, was proposed in van der Merwe et al. (2015). In this problem, firefighting teams provide a protective service to a set of assets endangered by wildfires. These activities can be performed by a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles and occur within specific time intervals estimated on the basis of fire fronts progression. This problem incorporates three additional constraints: time windows, synchronized visits, and compatibility constraints between vehicles and assets. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach that combines a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure coupled with an Iterated Local Search (GRASPILS) and a post‐optimization phase based on a set covering formulation. Interestingly, GRASPILS incorporates an adaptive candidate list‐based insertion heuristic and a Variable Neighborhood Descent search procedure. Detailed computational tests were carried out on benchmark instances from the literature. The results show that our method outperforms the other methods in the literature, since it improves all the best‐known solutions on medium‐ and large‐size instances, while maintaining shorter computational times.

Особливості формування системи захисту пенсійних активів накопичувальних пенсійних програм

European countries widely use multi-level pension systems, and Ukraine has also gone the way of building a three-level pension model. The use of funded pension programs is associated with the need to create a system of preservation and protection of their pension assets from the manifestations of various risks. The article aims to reveal the peculiarities of the formation of the system of protection of pension assets of accumulative pension programs and to determine the state's role in improving its reliability and efficiency. In Ukraine, the state has a key role in shaping the protection system of pension assets of funded pension insurance. However, the level of protection of pension assets of participants in funded pension programs in the private pension system is insufficient. The main measures for the protection and preservation of pension assets were analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of guarantees for the protection of pension assets of the second and third levels of the pension system of Ukraine by the state and its financial institutions. These should include: state control over the preservation and use of pension assets, investment policy to attract financial resources of funded pension insurance in the stock market, promote the development and expansion of the national stock market, disclose information on changes in the value of pension assets and reporting on them, regulation of remuneration of financial institutions servicing pension assets. Issues related to the tax regulation of pension savings were analyzed. Among the options for tax benefits is proposed one that provides that pension benefits are not taxable. The investment income of participants in funded pension programs and their contributions are also exempt from taxation. A set of measures for forming a reliable and effective system of protection of pension assets of funded pension programs was proposed.

Three significances of the notion heritage: a study of the dissonance between institutionalization, tourism image and social perceptions in rural areas

This paper explores the different meanings that heritage has for conservation, tourism and local identity. Based on an in -depth examination of a conceptual framework, heritage was seen to have three different meanings: (i) the one recognized at the institutional level by administrations concerned with the protection of assets and spaces; (ii) the one that is based on the configuration of the image of the land within the tourism sector; and (iii) the one that corresponds to the sense of identity of the local people in that community. The aim of this research is to identify the relationships between these significances in order to contribute toward improved heritage management. To this end, an empirical methodology was configured based on standard techniques in social sciences, including an analysis of the content of public policies, a semiotic analysis of the tourism image and consultation using questionnaires. This methodology makes it possible to isolate the different variables and determine how the synergies between them are made manifest within a specific rural context, and then predict how these impacts can be replicated elsewhere. Based on our results, the conclusion is that more heterogeneous values of heritage need to be incorporated into both the tourism image and the social perception, using the latest academic approaches. It also shows that the traditional segmentation of administrative frameworks prevents a similar development within the existing institutional contexts.

Your Land is My Land: Civil Conquest, Asset Protection, and Real Estate Value

Your Land is My Land: Civil Conquest, Asset Protection, and Real Estate Value

Protective assets in conditions of financial uncertainty

Protective assets in conditions of financial uncertainty

Revisiting Cybersecurity Awareness in the Midst of Disruptions

The awareness of cybersecurity and knowledge about risks from a variety of threats, which present harm or steal private information in internetworking could help in mitigation of vulnerabilities to risks of threats in safeguarding information from malware and bots. Revisiting cybersecurity awareness of every member and evaluation of organization’s posture might help to protect sensitive or private information from a network of computers, working together and forming into botnets. The purpose of the qualitative case study narrative was to explore prospects for integrating cybersecurity education into elementary school children’s curriculum through interviews of elementary schoolteachers, IT experts, and parents to gain feedback about perceptions on cybersecurity knowledge and awareness. The analysis of schools’ organizational security postures related to all levels of education, recommending in raising awareness of the underlying and unprecedented security vulnerabilities. One area of greatest need is in protecting the wellbeing of people in securing private or protected assets and sensitive information, most valuable and vulnerable amid disruption. The possible lack of cybersecurity awareness in online settings could increase an organizational vulnerability to risks of threats and outsider attempts to install malware during a variety of cyber-attacks. Organizations with online ambiguity face a threat from botnets to infect networks. This qualitative exploratory single case-study into perceptions of teachers and leaders, information technology (IT) experts, and parents of elementary school children about cybersecurity awareness level of children in elementary schools helped to reinforce the important role of education in building foundational cyber-safety practices.

МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ СИСТЕМИ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ В УМОВАХ НЕВИЗНАЧЕНОСТІ ВПЛИВУ ДЕСТАБІЛІЗАЦІЙНИХ ФАКТОРІВ НА ОСНОВІ НЕЙРОНЕЧІТКИХ МЕРЕЖ

The most important result of the formation of the information society of the XXI century was the emergence of a global information space, which unfolded a fierce struggle for information excellence. As a result, in modern society, information security is a critical component of national, regional and international security. The information security system should be aimed at ensuring information security as a property and as a state, as well as to create secure conditions for the use of information resources as an activity. Information is increasingly being used as a threat to competitors, information systems, software. Conceptual and scientific-methodological foundations of information security are still in the process of develop-ment and research. However, there are already models of information security and protection of information systems that try to answer the question: how to reduce the risk of system failure, what types of attacks can be eliminated, what types of threats exist. That is why the development of an economically determined risk assessment model for the information security system of the enterprise is an important aspect for the organization of the enterprise. Imbalances and failures in the information system can cause significant economic damage. That is why the creation of an ideal system that is certainly able to withstand the full set of threats requires significant costs, so the formation of an economically viable system to minimize information security risks at the level of the business entity is extremely important. At the enterprise level, the first step towards the for-mation of information security should be the development of a conceptual scheme, the overall structure of the information security model, which should be based on other models related to the protection of tangible and intangible assets and reduce the likelihood of information. At the organizational and managerial level, after a deep analysis under the guidance of a per-son directly responsible for the information security of the organization, coordinating and controlling it, aware of business goals, risks and threats, taking into account the opinions of experts, mathematical and functional models are formed, the or-ganizational and corporate component of security is determined information system. Accordingly, the information security of an organization can be defined as the protection of information and supporting infrastructure from accidental or intentional impacts, natural or artificial, that could cause unacceptable damage.

基于生态资产的内蒙古生态保护效益评估

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 基于生态资产的内蒙古生态保护效益评估 DOI: 10.5846/stxb202101180195 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 内蒙古自治区关键技术攻关项目(2019GG351);国家重点研发计划项目子课题(2016YFC0503402-06) Assessment of ecological conservation benefit in the Inner Mongolia based on ecological assets Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:生态资产是能够为人类提供生态产品和服务的自然资源资产,生态资产的变化特征可以反应生态保护政策与工程的实施效果。内蒙古地理位置重要,生态系统脆弱,发挥着生态安全屏障作用,是国家生态保护政策与工程实施的重点区域,通过生态资产变化评估内蒙古生态保护效益,对掌握生态状况与保护生态资产具有一定的意义。通过核算森林、灌丛、草地生态资产面积和质量,并建立生态资产综合指数,评估了内蒙古生态资产特征及变化情况。内蒙古生态资产主要以草地生态资产为主,占自然生态资产总面积的73.72%。草地生态资产质量较差,以中级、差级和劣级为主,占草地生态资产的81.03%;森林生态资产质量较好,灌丛生态资产质量也较差。2000-2015年,生态资产综合指数提高了24.91,生态资产面积变化不明显,生态资产质量明显提升,质量提升面积为16.59×104km2。内蒙古整体生态质量水平在缓慢提升,实施的生态保护工程与政策发挥了积极作用。 Abstract:Ecological assets are a part of natural resource assets that provide ecological goods and services. Variation characteristics of ecological assets reflect the effectiveness of ecological protection policies and projects. The Inner Mongolia plays a role of ecological security barrier with an important geographical location. The Inner Mongolia's ecosystem is fragile, so it is a key area of national ecological protection. It is significance to assess the benefits of ecological assets for assessment ecological status and further protection of ecological assets in Inner Mongolia. In this study, we evaluated the characteristics and changes of ecological assets in the Inner Mongolia over the past 15 years by accounting the quantity and quality of ecological assets, and creating the comprehensive index of ecological assets, which included forests, shrub, and grasslands. The results showed that grassland assets were the main ecological assets in the Inner Mongolia, accounting for 73.72% of the total area of natural ecological assets. The quality of grassland ecological assets was worse, with 81.03% of the total grassland assets area being medium, poor and inferior quality. The quality of forest ecological assets was good and that of shrub ecological assets was poor. The ecological assets comprehensive index of the Inner Mongolia increased 24.91 during 2000 to 2015. However, the area of ecological assets did not change significantly; therefore, the quality of ecological assets improved significantly with the area of quality improvement by 16500 km2. The quality of the natural ecological assets increased steadily, and the ecological protection projects and policies played a positive role in improving the quality of natural ecological assets in the Inner Mongolia. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

ДЕПОЗИТНІ І КРЕДИТНІ ОПЕРАЦІЙ БАНКІВСЬКОЇ УСТАНОВИ В УМОВАХ НАДЗВИЧАЙНОГО СТАНУ: ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ І МЕТОДИКА ОБЛІКУ, АНАЛІЗУ, АУДИТУ

The article adapts the organization and methodology of accounting, analysis, and auditing of deposit and credit operations of a banking institution to the conditions of a state of emergency: It is established that the organization of accounting, analysis, and auditing of a banking institution must ensure the possibility of collecting, measuring, registering, accumulating, processing, summarizing the necessary information to assess the volume of deposits and loans, related income and expenses, as well as the profitability and efficiency of active and passive operations. It is shown that the purpose of the analysis and audit of deposit and credit operations of a banking institution is to assess the effectiveness of a complex system of accounting and internal control, the profitability of certain types of deposits and loans, customers, banking products, etc., which ensures the financial stability of the bank, optimization of interest income and expenses, etc. A state of emergency is a special legal regime that can be temporarily introduced in Ukraine or in some of its localities in the event of emergency situations of man-made or natural nature not lower than the national level. The purpose of its introduction is to eliminate the threat and eliminate especially severe man-made or natural emergencies as soon as possible, normalize the situation, restore law and order in the event of attempts to seize state power or change the constitutional order through violence. On the basis of a critical assessment of the current regulatory acts, it was established that in a state of emergency, the head of a banking institution must take measures to ensure proper protection and preservation of assets, seals, stamps of the bank, other valuables, accounting information on bank operations, primary documents and accounting registers, etc. On the day preceding the introduction of the state of emergency, the balances of synthetic and analytical accounting accounts are recorded. During the validity of the specified period, accounting can be carried out both in an automated form and in manual mode. After the end of the state of emergency, the banking institution must resume accounting using computer technology.

Cybersecurity vs. Information Security

Protection of data assets is a hot trend topic that is attracting considerable interest worldwide. There are different concepts revolving security of data including cybersecurity and information security. Cybersecurity and information security terms are both related to the security of data aiming to defend data against different types of threats. Despite cybersecurity and information security are often used interchangeably, there are differences in each concept, and they should not be used interchangeably. Various definitions of cybersecurity and information security provided by scholars and standards are discussed in this article and differences are explained.

РОЗБУДОВА СИСТЕМИ КОНТРОЛЮ ВИТРАТ НА ПРОСУВАННЯ ТА ПРОДАЖ ТОВАРІВ І ПОСЛУГ

The research paper updates the issue of the need to organize control over the promotion and sale costs of goods and services in accordance with the management system information needs under the sustainable market development, and their characteristic features are determined. The goals, principles, object, subject of control over promotion and sale costs of goods and services are considered. It is proved that the costs control organization is focused on the measures implementation of the marketing activities efficiency and effectiveness increasing, compliance with the budget developed and established for marketing activities, protection of enterprise assets, prevention of possible risks. For practical activities use, the organizational model of goods and services promotion and sale costs controlling is proposed, the architecture of which includes elements of process targeting, management requirements, distribution of responsibility for the formation of costs in part of business processes, control technology in the context of the implementation of the developed marketing program by the entity (in terms of expenses), criteria for assessing the legality and expediency of costs which are included in the innovative types of products, analysis of deviations from the established parameters, assessment of the obtained inspection results, provision of general information to the manager, feedback. The main components of information support, as well as internal organizational regulations (plan, checking marketing costs program) are determined. It is proved that in the process of the goods and services promotion and sale costs control organizing of an industrial enterprise it is necessary to analyze both financial and non-financial information for conclusions formation on the base of the inspection results. The trends of the Program for the goods and services promotion and sale costs analysis control are determined. It is substantiated that the effective mechanism of these costs control organization is the budgeting process, which plays significant role both in the context of the proper performance of the marketing functions of an industrial enterprise in its activity development strategic goals achieving, and increasing the economic effect of each marketing measure through the assessment of distribution and use material and financial resources.

Evaluating the Security Posture and Protection of Critical Assets of Industrial Control Systems in Zambia

The number of successful attacks on vital infrastructure has increased, as has the sophistication of the attacks. Many cybersecurity strategies include traditional best practices, but they frequently overlook organizational circumstances and unique critical infrastructure protection requirements. The goal of this qualitative multiple case research was to look into the cybersecurity tactics employed by IT managers and compliance officers to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The participants in this study were IT managers and compliance officials from four Zambian case organizations. The conceptual framework was based on the routine activity theory published by criminologists Cohen and Felson in 1979. Interviews with two IT managers, three compliance officers, and 25 papers relating to cybersecurity and policy governance were used to gather data. Four significant themes emerged from data triangulation: the need for a robust worker training program, prioritizing infrastructure resiliency, the importance of security awareness, and the importance of organizational leadership support and investment. This research uncovered essential tactics that can help OT and compliance professionals enhance their cybersecurity strategy, which can help reduce successful assaults on critical infrastructure. The study findings will contribute to positive social change through an exploration and contextual analysis of cybersecurity strategy with situational awareness of OT practices to enhance cyber threat mitigation and inform business processes.

Forecasting the environmental and economic indicators of the enterprise, taking into account their mutual proportionality in dynamics for the purposes of sustainable development

The study proposes the construction of a statistical model of the company's eco-logical and economic state, using the synthesis of econometrics and multidimen-sional forecasting methods, which provide the correlation of the obtained indica-tors, taking into account mutual proportionality in relation to the dynamic charac-teristics of environmental sustainability factors within the framework of the sus-tainable development paradigm. A combined model is implemented with a step-by-step modification of the matrix predictor into a regression-matrix one. Using the method of least squares, the study shows the codependency of the ecological and economic indicators of the sustainability of the enterprise: the cost of capital repairs of fixed assets for environmental protection; labor payment expenditures, including deductions for social needs of employees involved in environmental pro-tection; operating environmental costs; sales revenue; profitability of production and sales. The obtained regression coefficient showed a high degree of dependence of the closeness of the relationship of the considered environmental and economic indicators of sustainability (more than 98%), which proves their codependency and the need for their balanced use, since the value of at least one of the indica-tors outside the optimal range allows us to state a high probability of financial damage for enterprises. Using a combined model based on a matrix predictor, the study demonstrates the calculation of the predicted values of environmental and economic indicators of sustainability for 2021.The peculiarity of this model is to take into account the lagging (up to 2 years) values of factors and their growth over the previous period (for 1 year). The proposed model contains a mechanism of multivariate expectations, which allows us to consider various options for the future. Also, this model allows the automation of the forecasting process, which is reflected in the implementation of the trend of transition to the digital space in the implementation of sustainable development goals.

Reformulation and Valid Inequalities for the Dynamic Asset Protection Problem During an Escaped Wildfire

Reformulation and Valid Inequalities for the Dynamic Asset Protection Problem During an Escaped Wildfire

Modelling the impact of condition-dependent responses and lipid-store availability on the consequences of disturbance in a cetacean.

Lipid-store body condition is fundamental to how animals cope with environmental fluctuations, including anthropogenic change. As it provides an energetic buffer, body condition is expected to influence risk-taking strategies, with both positive and negative relationships between body condition and risk-taking posited in the literature. Individuals in good condition may take more risks due to state-dependent safety ('ability-based' explanation), or alternatively fewer risks due to asset protection and reduced need to undertake risky foraging ('needs-based' explanation). Such state-dependent responses could drive non-linear impacts of anthropogenic activities through feedback between body condition and behavioural disturbance. Here, we present a simple bioenergetic model that explicitly incorporates hypothetical body condition-dependent response strategies for a cetacean, the sperm whale. The model considered the consequences of state-dependent foraging cessation and availability of wax ester (WE) lipids for calf provisioning and female survival. We found strikingly different consequences of disturbance depending on strategy and WE availability scenarios. Compared with the null strategy, where responses to disturbance were independent of body condition, the needs-based strategy mitigated predicted reductions in provisioning by 10%-13%, while the ability-based strategy exaggerated reductions by 63%-113%. Lower WE availability resulted in more extreme outcomes because energy stores were smaller relative to the daily energy balance. In the 0% availability scenario, while the needs-based strategy reduced deaths by 100%, the ability-based strategy increased them by 335% relative to null and by 56% relative to the same strategy under the 5%-6.7% WE availability scenario. These results highlight that state-dependent disturbance responses and energy store availability could substantially impact the population consequences of disturbance. Our ability to set appropriate precautionary disturbance thresholds therefore requires empirical tests of ability- vs needs-based response modification as a function of body condition and a clearer understanding of energy store availability.

Eye on the "Eye" Ball: An Overview of Asset Protection Strategies for Ophthalmologists.

International Ophthalmology Clinics: Summer 2022 - Volume 62 - Issue 3 - p 181-191 doi: 10.1097/IIO.0000000000000439

Uncertain multi-objective dynamic weapon-target allocation problem based on uncertainty theory

<abstract><p>The weapon-target allocation (WTA) problem is a fundamental subject of defense-related applications research, and previous studies assume that the parameters in the model are determinate. For the real battlefield, asymmetric information usually leads to the failure of the above assumption, and there are uncertain factors whose frequency is hard to pinpoint. Based on uncertainty theory, we study a WTA problem in indeterminate battlefield in this paper. First, we analyze the uncertain factors in indeterminate battlefield and their influence on WTA problem. Then, considering the target threat value, the protected asset value and the extra cost of interception as uncertain variables, the uncertain multi-objective dynamic WTA (UMDWTA) model is established, where three indices including the value of destruction of targets, the value of surviving assets and the cost of operation are regarded as objective functions, and on this basis, an equivalent transformation is presented to convert the UMDWTA model into a determinate multi-objective programming (MOP) problem by expected value and standard deviation principle. To solve the proposed model efficiently, an improved multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) is designed, which employs three new evolutionary operators and the weight vectors adaptation mechanism to improve the convergence and uniformity of the Pareto front obtained. Finally, a case of the UMDWTA problem is carried out to be solved by the designed algorithm, and the results verify the feasibility of the proposed model.</p></abstract>