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Modeling and Simulations of Worms and Mitigation Techniques

Abdelhafez, Mohamed - 2007

Internet worm attacks have become increasingly more frequent and have had a major impact on the economy, making the detection and prevention of these attacks a top security concern. Several countermeasures have been proposed and evaluated in recent literature. However, the eect of these proposed...

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Systems-compatible Incentives

Levin, David - 2010

Originally, the Internet was a technological playground, a collaborative endeavor among researchers who shared the common goal of achieving communication. Self-interest used not to be a concern, but the motivations of the Internet's participants have broadened. Today, the Internet consists of...

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An analysis of the financing of Sri Lankan small businesses and their use of ethnic networks to support their business endeavours

Devarajan, Jeyaraman - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2006

financial capital, factors influencing those sources and networking activities for generating social capital. We found that … institutions and government agencies. The role of networking with ethnic associations was also explored. Finally, recommendations … are made to business owners on how to overcome various business problems and to promote better networking activities …

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Foreign Portfolio Investment and the Financial Constraints of Small Firms

Knill, April Thompson - 2005

This essay examines the impact of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Utilizing a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, I examine the impact of foreign portfolio investment on capital issuance and firm growth across countries...

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Information technology and small firm performance

Cragg, Paul B. - 1990

This study utilised both mail questionnaire and case studyapproaches to investigate propositions related to informationtechnology (IT) in small firms. The major propositioninvestigated IT Sophistication as one cause of small firmsuccess. Data was collected from 289 engineering firms by...

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