Le paysage à l’épreuve des « nouveaux » défis de l’aménagement du territoire au Maroc : contraintes et perspectives by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Yahia El Khalki, Abdelhalim Benyoucef

“…The Moroccan regional planning was often marked by security concerns, based on historic inheritances of conflicting relations between central authority and tribes. …”
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GTrust: Group Extension for Trust Models in Distributed Systems by Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque, Luis Javier García Villalba, Tai-Hoon Kim

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Dynamics and Control of Worm Epidemic Based on Mobile Networks by SEIQR-Type Model with Saturated Incidence Rate by Rui Hu, Qingwu Gao, Bairong Wang

“…The mobile networks have increasingly facilitated our daily life but are also breeding grounds for malicious worms, which are considered as the main threat to cyber security. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamics of worm propagation and to control the worm epidemic based on mobile-phone networks. …”
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A Novel Algorithm for Defending Path-Based Denial of Service Attacks in Sensor Networks by Ramzi Saifan, Omar Al-Jarrah

“…Existing end-to-end security mechanisms are vulnerable to path-based denial of service attacks (PDoS). …”
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On the Implementation of a Dynamic Direction Modulation System with Vector Modulators by Edith Annette Cabrera-Hernández, Josep Parron, Alan Tennant

“…Dynamic directional modulation (DDM) has already proven to be an efficient technique to achieve physical layer security in wireless communications. System architectures based on vector modulators provide a flexible framework to implement synthesis methods that allow us to obtain increased security and/or independent multichannel transmissions. …”
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Evolutionary Game and Numerical Simulation of Cultivated Land Protection Policies Implementation in China by Xinhai Lu, Yanwei Zhang, Yucheng Zou

“…The effective implementation of cultivated land protection policies (CLPP) has important practical significance for improving China’s food security and ecological security. The central government, local governments, and farmers have mutually restricted and influencing interest relations. …”
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Access Control Points: Reducing a Possible Blast Impact by Meandering by Martin Larcher, Georgios Valsamos, Vasilis Karlos

“…Such control zones could be located within the building that has to be protected or attached to it. The elevated security needs for these areas call for a design that will consider the risk of internal explosive events. …”
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A Dynamically Reconfigured Multi-FPGA Network Platform for High-Speed Malware Collection by Sascha Mühlbach, Andreas Koch

“…Malicious software has become a major threat to computer users on the Internet today. Security researchers need to gather and analyze large sample sets to develop effective countermeasures. …”
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Elliptic-Curve Cryptography Implementation on RISC-V Processors for Internet of Things Applications by Preethi Preethi, Mohammed Mujeer Ulla, G. Praveen Kumar Yadav, Kumar Sekhar Roy, Ruhul Amin Hazarika, Kuldeep Saxena K.

“…Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is a popular technique of public-key cryptography used for secure communications in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. …”
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Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development by Bhartendu Pandey, Christa Brelsford, Karen C. Seto

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Research and Evaluation on Dynamic Response Characteristics of Various Pavement Structures by Meng Guo, Fujin Hou, Shuaixiang Zhang, Xu Li, Yunliang Li, Yufeng Bi

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Innovative Technologies for Improved Water Productivity and Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience: A Review by E. Oiganji, H. Igbadun, P. S. Amaza, R. Z. Lenka

“… Water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, poses severe challenges to agriculture, food security, and sustainable development, particularly in vulnerable regions. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF URBAN METRO TRANSIT SYSTEM POST-COVID-19 by Salman KHURSHEED, Shagufta YASMIN

“…The survey covers commuter perceptions of safety & security, financial & economic factors, infrastructure & comfort and functional & operational features. …”
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Method for Detecting Manipulated Compilation of Sensing Reports in Wireless Sensor Networks by Hae Young Lee

“…The existing solutions are vulnerable to such a type of security attacks, called manipulated compilation attacks (MCAs), since they assume that CHs are uncompromised. …”
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Second-degree branch structure blockchain expansion model by Qiang Liu, Baoyan Song, Junlu Wang

“…Finally, a set of malicious attacks is simulated to realize the security constraints of the blockchain, to verify the security of the second-degree branch chain model. …”
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Ranking the Return on Assets of Tehran Stock Exchange by a New Method Based on Z-Numbers Data by Maryam Farzam, Mozhdeh Afshar Kermani, Tofigh Allahviranloo, Azim Aminataei

“…The advantage of this method over conventional fuzzy methods is considering uncertainty and allocating credit in the opinion of experts to estimate fuzzy parameters, and in the second example, we ranked the factors which affect the productivity of tourism security. Then, by using the proposed algorithm, we introduce the most important and the least important factors for tourist security budgeting.…”
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DEMOCRACY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST LEADERSHIP CORRUPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMPLICATION FOR CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT by TAIWO FRANCIS AYOMOBA

“… This paper examines democracy and the fight against leadership corruption in relation to Africa and its implication on development and security issues using a qualitative data gathering and analysis method. …”
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Challenges in providing correctional service education: A case study in a correctional institution in Amhara regional state, Ethiopia by Genet Gelana Kabeta, S G Pretorius

“…It was concluded that the majority of challenges faced in the case correctional institution occurred as a result of inadequate attention and conflicting missions of the correctional institution (security and rehabilitation) and the tendency of prioritizing security over rehabilitation. …”
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Comparison of Military Potentials of USA, PRC, and Some Countries in APR from the Standpoint of Western Analysts by M. Tchaikovsky, A. Kazantsev

“…In connection with the rising significance of the APR in the global economy, Western military and political analysts consider the PRC power strengthening as a challenge to the security and impact of the USA not only in this region, but also globally. …”
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eDAAAS: Efficient distributed anonymous authentication and access in smart homes by An Braeken, Pawani Porambage, Milos Stojmenovic, Lambros Lambrinos

“…Internet of Things applications for the smart home are very heterogeneous and continuously increasing in number, making user management from a security perspective very challenging. Moreover, the resource-constrained nature of most of the devices implies that any security mechanisms deployed should be lightweight and highly efficient. …”
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