Mobile phone advancements and ubiquitous internet connectivity are resulting in ever expanding possibilities in the application of smart phones. Users of mobile phones are now capable of hosting server applications from their personal devices. Whether providing services individually or in an ad hoc network setting the devices are currently not configured for defending against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks, often launched from a botnet, have existed in the space of personal computing for decades but recently have begun showing up on mobile devices. Research is done first into the required steps to develop a potential botnet on the Android platform. This includes testing for the amount of malicious traffic an Android phone would be capable of generating for a DDoS attack. On the other end of the spectrum is the need of mobile devices running networked applications to develop security against DDoS attacks. For this mobile, phones are setup, with web servers running Apache to simulate users running internet connected applications for either local ad hoc networks or serving to the internet. Testing is done for the viability of using commonly available modules developed for Apache and intended for servers as well as finding baseline capabilities of mobiles to handle higher traffic volumes. Given the unique challenge of the limited resources a mobile phone can dedicate to Apache when compared to a dedicated hosting server a new method was needed. A proposed defense algorithm is developed for mitigating DDoS attacks against the mobile server that takes into account the limited resources available on the mobile device. The algorithm is tested against TCP socket flooding for effectiveness and shown to perform better than the common Apache module installations on a mobile device.

Les contrats internationaux de délégation de service public s'inscrivent dans un ensemble de techniques connues de longue date, les affermages ayant plus de trois siècles d'existence et les concessions étant apparues aux XIXe siècles. Les partenariats public privés constituent la dernière forme en date des relations complexes entre les collectivités publiques et des opérateurs industriels ou de services. La technique de délégation de service public est largement utilisé dans le monde et les états adaptés suivent leurs propres législations internes sous différentes approches de la délégation. A noter que l'amplitude du sujet constitue un défit. Une apprche systématique permettra de réduire les difficultés. Plusieurs éléments sont à prendre en considération. Le premier porte sur l'activité délégable, le deuxième porte sur les formes contractuelles de la délégation et le troisième porte sur les transpositions internationales des contrats de délégation. Dans notre recherche, nous étudierons les contrats de délégation de service public dans le sens large du terme et d'un point de vue internationale sans entrer dans la classification interne de ces contrats dans chaque pays en se basant sur le modèle francais de la "concession" et le modèle Anglo-Saxon le "BOT" qui sont les deux modèles de base les plus répandus et ceci en suivant toutes les étapes du contrat de déégation : Passation, vie et fin du contrat ainsi que son contenu. Nous allons aussi essayer de mettre en relief des réponses aux problèmes émanant de cette expérience et ses applications répandus dans presque tout les pays et dont la réussite varie selon les dimensions géographiques et démographiques du pays / International contracts of public service delegation is part of a set of known longstanding techniques, long-terme leases with more than three centuries of existence and the concessions being emerged is the nineteenth century. Public-private partnerships are the latest form dated complex relations between public authorities and industry operators or services. The technique of delegation of public service is widely used in the world and adapted states follow there own internal laws in different approaches of the delegation. Notes that the amplitude of the subject is a challenge. A systematic approach will reduce difficulties. Several factors most be taken into consideration. The first concerns the delegable activity, the second door on the contractual forms of delegation and the third focuses on international transposition delegation contracts. In our research, we will study contracts delegation of public service in the broadest sense and from an international point of view without going into the internal classification of those contracts in each country. Based on the French model of th "concession" and the Anglo-Saxon model "BOT" which are the two basic models of the most common we will follow all the steps of delegation contract : Procurement, life and termination of the contract and its contents. We will also try to highlight the answers to the problems arising from this experience and widespread in almost all countries and applications whose success depends on the geographical area and population of the country.

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / This thesis examines the implementation elements of the Nurse Internship Program (NIP) at Naval Medical Center San Diego. The NIP provides nurses with no or little nursing experience an opportunity to participate in professional development as United States Navy Nurse Corps officers. The resolution to implement a NIP requires resource allocation decisions and commitment from top leaders in the organization. A review of adult learning and teaching methods is presented as a foundation for the NIP. It emphasizes the Dreyfus sk ill acquisition model adapted to the nursing profession by Benner that depicts the "novice to expert" continuum. Next, an overview of nursing orientation framework as found in the civilian and military healthcare organizations focuses on the program implementation. A discussion of resource allocations made by organizations for a NIP or a nursing orientation program is then presented. Historical accessions data are examined to demonstrate the trend in new nurse appointments to the Navy. The NIP offers po tential benefits to the organization and the nurse interns. Planning, evaluation, and leadership support are important drivers in the NIP framework. Recommendations are presented for further study based on the foundational aspects of this study. / Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy

M.A. / The problem identified as the focus of this study, is the absence of standardized measurement instruments in the Afrikaans Language, for use in social work practice in South Africa. This study focuses on two indices that form part of the "Clinical Measurement Package" by Hudson (1982), namely the General Contentment Scale and the Index of Family Relations. The aims of this study are to translate the indices into Afrikaans and to adapt them to South African circumstances; to determine the construct validity as well as the content validity of each index; to determine the reliability of each index to formulate new items to include in the indices if necessary ...

M.Com. / This study originated from the thought that the principles and practices of modern marketing management can be used more effectively in the South African Railways as one of the largest public organisations in the world. The objectives of the study were an investigation into the principles and practices of modern marketing management in the service industry in general and the extent to which these principles and practices are applied in the marketing of goods services by the South African Railways. The study included a survey of the literature on the marketing of services, including some railway organisations in other countries as well as an in depth investigation of the present approach to and practice of marketing management in the South African Railways.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa vikten av att få in en ny lagstiftning som kan täcka tjänsteavtal mellan näringsidkare.

La Constitution charge le Conseil supérieur de la magistrature d’assister le Président de la République dans son rôle de garant de l’indépendance de l’autorité judiciaire. Il est tout à la fois un organe constitutionnel attaché à la fonction de juger et un instrument de la gestion administrative du service public de la justice. Mais une autre dimension peut être dégagée des textes et de la pratique : celle de la « représentation » des intérêts de l’autorité judiciaire.Le C.S.M. apparaît de plus en plus comme le représentant de l’ « autorité judiciaire » (non du corps des magistrats qui n’en est que sa composante), mais surtout de ses valeurs (l’unité de la magistrature, l’indépendance, la déontologie ,…). Dans cette perspective, l’étude des sources (textes et avis) montre que le Conseil, au-delà de l’institution et de ses missions, construit progressivement une représentation de ce que doit être l’autorité judiciaire et entend la défendre contre toutes formes de pression ; en ce sens il la représente.Si une partie de la doctrine voudrait élargir son champ d’action, au nom de la garantie des droits, à tous les organes qui exercent matériellement la fonction juridictionnelle, il semble judicieux que le C.S.M. demeure le représentant de la seule autorité judiciaire. En effet, sa composition pluraliste, de laïcs et magistrats, l’éloigne de la politisation et du corporatisme ; cette mise à distance posant les conditions nécessaires à la garantie de l’indépendance de l’autorité judiciaire. / The High Council of the judiciary has, according to the Constitution, the mission to assist the President of the Republic in his role as the protector of the Judicial Authority’s independence. It’s both a constitutional organ attach to the judicial function and a tool for the public service of justice’s administrative management. Yet, another dimension can be drawn from the written law as well as legal practice:“representation” the Judicial Authority’s interests. The High Council appears more and more as the representative of the “Judicial Authority” (not the body of magistrates which is only a part of it), but foremost it appears as the representative of its values (unity of the judiciary, independence, ethics, …). In this view, studying sources of the law (provisions and opinions of the High Council) shows that the High Council, beyond the institution and its missions, builds gradually an idea of what ought to be the Judicial Authority and intends to defend it against lobbying. In this meaning of the word, the High Council represents the Judicial Authority. If some legal scholars would like to see its missions broadened, in the name of Human Rights, to encompass all the organs that carry out materially judicial duties, it seems wise that the High Council stays the representative of the Judicial Authority alone. Indeed, its composition pluralist, of magistrates and outside persons, keeps it from politics and corporatism, this detachment laying the conditions needed for guarantying the Judicial Authority’s independence.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Medicine in Emergency Medicine. Johannesburg, 2015 / Aim: To determine any association between the lunar synodic or anomalistic months and the nature and volume of emergency department patient consultations and hospital admissions from the emergency department (ED). Design: A retrospective, descriptive study. Setting: All South African EDs of a private hospital group. Patients: All patients consulted from 01 January 2005 to 31 December 2010. Methods: Data was extracted from monthly records and statistically evaluated, controlling for calendric variables. Lunar variables were modelled with volumes of differing priority of hospital admissions and consultation categories including; trauma, medical, paediatric, work injuries, obstetrics and gynaecology, intentional self harm, sexual assault, dog bites and total ED consultations. Main Results: No significant differences were found in all anomalistic and most synodic models with the consultation categories. Small but significant increases were found with a small number of synodic models around full moon with some categories, P2 medical, total paediatric consultations and total admissions. Significant decreases in admissions, particulary total admissions, were found around perigee. The effect sizes of all significant lunar associations were smaller than those of the calendric variables. Conclusions: Most comparisons demonstrated no lunar association. Small but significant associations were demonstrated around full moon with some synodic models. A number of anomalistic admission models demonstrated small but significant decreases in admissions at perigee.

Thesis advisor: James M. O'Toole / This dissertation examines the development of youth volunteer service in the United States through a constellation of religious, private, and government programs. It explores how this larger impulse, which includes “service trips,” service–learning courses, and postgraduate programs like the Peace Corps, became a normative and ubiquitous opportunity for middle class, and consequently largely white, Americans. This study weaves together multiple programs, and a rich array of ideas and events such as social gospel concerns, pacifism, William James’ arguments for a “moral alternative to war,” gender and class anxieties, Great Depression and Cold War–specific exigencies, the Catholic Lay Apostolate, 1960s student activism, and the War on Poverty. The dissertation further demonstrates the religious roots of this phenomenon, as seen through Protestant and Catholic programs in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Further, it shows that this paradigm of volunteer has always been twofold in its aim; it has focused both on the growth and education of the volunteer as they served others. It also shows that impulse has always been a limited agent for large–scale social change. Service programs were by their nature short–term projects meant to expose and educate volunteers to more entrenched social problems. Finally, while adult organizers often made service opportunities a possibility, it was the desire of many young women and men to “do more” with their time and abilities outside of traditional educational or professional options was the engine that truly drove and grew this movement. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.