The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 highlighted how important trust is for the global system and how fragile it can be. The 2016 Bangladesh central bank cyber incident exposed a new threat to financial stability and the unprecedented scale of the risk that malicious cyber actors pose to...

The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 highlighted how important trust is for the global system and how fragile it can be. The 2016 Bangladesh central bank cyber incident exposed a new threat to financial stability and the unprecedented scale of the risk that malicious cyber actors pose to...

In the scope of portal development, in order to talk about security issues, concerns, and solutions, it is necessary to define a few terms: authentication, authorization, Single Sign-On (SSO), confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation. Focusing on the scope of what the portal developer and...

This insert describes a new command mlanguage that facilitates the creation and maintenance of “comprehensive” multilingual datasets. These are datasets with many variables, many of which are value labeled, with labels in different languages, all contained within the dataset. The tools make...

I describe two utilities dealing with value labels. labeldup reports and optionally removes duplicate value labels. labelrename renames a value label. Both utilities, of course, preserve the links between variables and value labels and support multilingual datasets. Copyright 2005 by StataCorp LP.

A recent study found that supply-chain problems cost companies between 9 and 20 percent of their value over a six-month period (T.J. Becker, 2000). The problems range from part shortages to poorly utilized plant capacity. When you place this in the context of the overall business-to-business...