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How hr analytics can leverage big data to minimise employees' exploitation and promote their welfare for sustainable competitive advantage

- Biswas, Kumar, Bhardwaj, Sneh, Zaman, Sawlat

Authors: Biswas, Kumar , Bhardwaj, Sneh , Zaman, Sawlat
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Handbook of Big Data Research Methods Chapter 12 p. 179-194
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Description: Big Data leveraged Human Resource Management Analytics (HRA) can enable HR professionals to make objective decisions in effectively managing key HR functions such as recruitment, training, development, compensation. Despite the abundance of benefits of using HRA to manage people in the organization more objectively than ever before, scholars and practitioners have been raising concerns over the potential misuse of HRA to discriminate against a particular group of people who may not be aware of disparate HR practices. As part of this bigger picture, this chapter investigates how HRA can leverage big data to minimize employee exploitation and promote employee welfare to sustain competitive advantage. This chapter provides comprehensive articulation of the key concepts related to HR analytics, Big Data and delineates how big-data-driven HR analytics can be (mis)used for people management. Our chapter draws on critical challenges HR professionals experience in adopting big data leveraged HR analytics. Finally, this chapter concludes with a set of proactive and reactive measures that are to be adhered to minimize HRA-related biases to uphold the philosophy of equity and diversity and sustain the organization's branding as an employer of choice. © Editors and Contributors Severally 2023. All rights reserved.

Reanimating historic malware samples

- Black, Paul, Gondal, Iqbal, Vamplew, Peter, Lakhotia, Arun

Authors: Black, Paul , Gondal, Iqbal , Vamplew, Peter , Lakhotia, Arun
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Malware Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning p. 345-360
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Description: Many types of malicious software are controlled from an attacker’s command and control (C2) servers. Anti-virus organizations seek to defeat malware attacks by requesting removal of C2 server Domain Name Server (DNS) records. As a result, the life span of most malware samples is relatively short. Large datasets of historical malware samples are available for countermeasures research. However, due to the age of these malware samples, their C2 servers are no longer available. To cope with high volumes of malware production, malware analysis is increasingly performed using machine learning techniques. Dynamic analysis is commonly used for feature extraction. However, due to the absence of their C2 servers, after initialization, malware samples may exit or loop attempting to establish C2 server connections and, as a result, no longer exhibit their original capabilities. Therefore, partial execution of historical malware samples in a sandbox results in features that differ from those that would be extracted in-the-wild, thus invalidating the results of any machine learning research based on these features. One approach to extracting accurate features is to build an emulated C2 server to provide an environment that allows control of the full capabilities of the malware in an isolated environment. To illustrate the benefits of building C2 server emulators, this chapter provides examples of techniques for the creation of C2 server emulators for three malware families (Zeus, CryptoWall, and CryptoLocker) using manual reverse engineering techniques and a review of semi-automated techniques for the construction of C2 server emulators.

Banshees

- Blee, Jillian

Authors: Blee, Jillian
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 43-54
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Description: The word Banshee is derived from the Gaelic 'bean si' or 'sidhe' meaning woman of the faeries. According to legend they appointed from the faery world to forewarn the members of the families who claim direct descent from the mythical Milesians, the fifth and last of the population waves to sweep Ireland during pre-historical times. Although originally the pre-serve of the clans of O'Neill, O'Brien, O'Grady, O'Connor and Kavanagh, with intermarraige down through the centuries they have become attached to many other Irish families including several with distinctly Norman heritage.

Spinal Injuries: causes and prevention

- Blitvich, Jennifer

Authors: Blitvich, Jennifer
Date: 2014
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Drowning: Prevention, Rescue, Treatment Chapter 78 p. 509-513
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Description: Water-related spinal cord injury (SCI) makes a major contribution to the incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury. The most recent Australian figures show that swimming, diving, surfing or falling into water contributed 9 % of all traumatic SCI [1]. The same figures have been published in the USA [2]. Worldwide, diving is considered the contributing mechanism for SCI for between 2.3 % of SCI cases in South Africa and 21 % in Poland [3]. However, these figures underestimate the real incidence. Some deaths attributed to drowning occur as a result of an unidentified SCI. In almost all circumstances, diving SCI results in permanent tetraplegia [4]

Acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that contribute to water competence: High-income countries

- Blitvich, Jennifer

Authors: Blitvich, Jennifer
Date: 2014
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Drowning: Prevention, Rescue, Treatment Chapter 31 p. 207-213
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Description: Water safety literature has many epidemiological studies, and for high-income countries at least, the demographics and risk factors for drowning are well established. In spite of the introduction of a multitude of measures designed to reduce drowning, a review of current literature shows that to date, evaluations of the effectiveness of water safety interventions are scarce. Worldwide, key stakeholders have implemented various intervention programmes but few have been evaluated. Those which have, typically examine recall of messages rather than changes in skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. At the same time, it should be realised that the impact of interventions on the drowning rate is particularly difficult to measure at least in high-income countries, where drowning is a relatively rare event. Also it seems unrealistic to expect that changes to rates become apparent after a single intervention. To date, home swimming pool fencing appears to be one of the only areas where evidence is available that demonstrates a reduction in drowning figures.

Visualising the value of water

- Block, Jessica, Graymore, Michelle, Wallis, Anne, Vamplew, Peter, Mitchell, Bradley, O'Toole, Kevin, McRae-Williams, Pamela

Authors: Block, Jessica , Graymore, Michelle , Wallis, Anne , Vamplew, Peter , Mitchell, Bradley , O'Toole, Kevin , McRae-Williams, Pamela
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Pipes, Ponds and People: Adaptive water management p. 195-225
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Toxocara seroprevalence in the USA and its impact for individuals and society

- Bradbury, Richard, Hobbs, Charlotte

Authors: Bradbury, Richard , Hobbs, Charlotte
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Advances in Parasitology p. 317-339
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Description: Toxocara species are intestinal helminths of dogs and cats, the larval stages of which may infect humans and cause severe neural, ocular and visceral larva migrans disease. Such cases of severe overt disease represent only a small fraction of the of the US population who have been exposed and infected with Toxocara, subsequently developing IgG antibodies to the larvae. The true impact of exposure to Toxocara in this large group of Americans remains uncertain. Toxocara antibody positivity is associated with poverty, but other specific risk factors have been identified, including sex, age, rural residence, region of residence, race and exposure to pets. This seropositive status has also been associated with several childhood diseases, including asthma and epilepsy, increased serum lead levels, and poor neurocognitive function. Three large-scale NHANES studies have provided comprehensive datasets, while several smaller studies have explored specific disease associations. Each seroprevalence study must be interpreted in consideration of the sensitivity and specificity of the individual serological methods employed. This chapter summarizes all historical Toxocara prevalence data from dogs, cats and soil in the United States. It then carefully examines all previous human Toxocara seroprevalence surveys performed in the United States. Data from these surveys is assimilated, compared and discussed to determine the validity of findings and to accurately identify risk factors for Toxocara seropositivity. The validity of associations of exposure to Toxocara larvae and childhood diseases such as asthma and epilepsy and effects neurocognitive function within the American context are also explored. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd

Hookworm Infection in Oceania

- Bradbury, Richard, Traub, Rebecca

Authors: Bradbury, Richard , Traub, Rebecca
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Neglected Tropical Diseases - Oceania Chapter 2 p. 33-68
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Description: Hookworm disease and its associated morbidities continue to be a major public health problem in many tropical and subtropical nations and remain endemic throughout the Oceania region. Three species of hookworm cause patent infection in humans in this region: Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale and Ancylostoma ceylanicum. Historical hookworm infection rates of up to 90 % throughout many parts of Oceania have significantly declined; however, the disease remains a major problem requiring ongoing public health intervention. The effectiveness of such interventions is evident in northern Australia, where once widespread hookworm disease is now limited to a few remaining endemic foci of isolated communities in the far north of the country. Outside of Australia, there is limited data available in the literature on hookworm prevalence, but a few recent (since 2000) studies have found hookworm prevalence rates of between 3 and 23 %. Infections with A. caninum, leading to eosinophilic enteritis, and sporadic cases cutaneous larva migrans caused by dermal migration of animal hookworm larva are also reported from several regions. This chapter provides a comprehensive review of both the historical and current literature on species of hookworms infecting humans and the geographical prevalence and distribution of hookworm disease in the Oceania region.

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