DOD personnel clearances [[electronic resource] ] : government plan addresses some long-standing problems with DOD's program, but concerns remain : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate / / statement of Derek B. Stewart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910694893203321
• Autore: Stewart Derek B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Government Accountability Office, , [2005]
• Descrizione fisica: 13 pages : digital, PDF file
• Collana: Testimony ; ; GAO-06-233 T
• Soggetti: Security clearances - Government policy - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 19, 2006).; "For release ... November 9, 2005."; Paper version available from: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Evidence, policy and practice : critical perspectives in health and social care (why evidence doesn't influence policy, why it should and how it might) / / edited by Jon Glasby [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781685703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-84742-284-5; 1-4473-0225-7; 1-283-21262-5; 1-84742-943-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 128 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Medical policy; Medical care - Social aspects; Public health - Research; Knowledge, Sociology of
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ten steps for creating receptive organisational contexts -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Index.; Conclusion -- 6 From evidence-based to knowledge-based policy and practice -- Cases for change -- different approaches to 'what works' -- Towards 'knowledge-based practice' -- Putting it into practice -- A typology of evidence for decision making? -- A 'due diligence' approach (aka 'quick and dirty') -- Conclusion -- 7 Receptive contexts and the role of knowledge management in evidence-based practice -- Introduction -- Why focus on context? -- Receptive organisational contexts -- Knowledge management: key concepts -- Knowledge management: strategies.; Policy transfer -- From transfer to translation -- Individualised budgets: explaining policy migration -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 4 Policy making through a rhetorical lens -- Different ways of seeing policy making -- The value of rhetorical analysis -- Rhetoric confronts uncertainty and ethical dilemmas in policy making -- Arguments are ; constructed for particular audiences -- Rhetoric extends our understanding of rationality -- Conclusion -- 5 Implementing policy -- A brief history of policy implementation -- Policy implementation or policy change? -- Making sense of implementation.; List of figures, tables and boxes -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Tensions between policy and evidence -- How does evidence influence policy (if at all)? -- Our aims and approach -- 2 The policy process -- Introduction -- The policy process -- Evaluation and the policy process -- Using evidence -- Evidence-based policy making -- Defining EBPM -- Hierarchies of evidence -- Hierarchies of relevance -- Evidence-informed policy or evidence-legitimised policy? -- Conclusion -- 3 From policy transfer to policy translation: the role of evidence in policy borrowing.
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process.

Security and Trust Management : 15th International Workshop, STM 2019, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 26–27, 2019, Proceedings / / edited by Sjouke Mauw, Mauro Conti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910349278803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-030-31511-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 169 p. 71 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Security and Cryptology ; ; 11738
• Disciplina: 005.8
• Soggetti: Computer security; Computers and civilization; E-commerce; Application software; Systems and Data Security; Computers and Society; e-Commerce/e-business; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Improving Identity and Authentication Assurance in Research and Education Federations -- Audit-Based Access Control with a Distributed Ledger: Applications to Healthcare Organizations -- Is a Smarter Grid Also Riskier -- BioID: a Privacy-Friendly Identity Document -- On the Statistical Detection of Adversarial Instances over Encrypted Data -- Understanding Attestation: Analyzing Protocols that use Quotes -- Challenges of Using Trusted Computing for Collaborative Data Processing -- Secure Trust Evaluation Using Multipath and Referral Chain Methods -- Personal Cross-Platform Reputation -- An OBDD-based Technique for the Efficient Synthesis of Garbled Circuits.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, STM 2019, held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, in September 2019, and co-located with the 24th European Symposium Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2019. The 9 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers present novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and trust in ICTs.