scholarly journals Vulnerability Forecasting: Theory and Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eireann Leverett ◽  
Matilda Rhode ◽  
Adam Wedgbury
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Interval ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Predictive Algorithms ◽  
Forecasting Theory

It is possible to forecast the volume of CVEs released within a time frame with a given prediction interval. For example, the number of CVEs published between now and 365 days from now can be predicted a year in advance within 8% of the actual value. Different predictive algorithms perform well at different lookahead values other than 365 days, such as monthly, quarterly, and half year. It is also possible to estimate the proportions of that total volume belonging to specific vendors, software, CVSS scores, or vulnerability types. Some vendors and products can be predicted with accuracy, others with too much uncertainty to be practically useful. This paper documents which ones are amenable to being forecasted. Strategic patch management should become much easier with these tools, and further uncertainty reductions can be built from the methodologies in this paper.

Literacy instructional coaching for inservice teachers through a community-engaged partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tala Michelle Karkar Esperat
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Instructional Coaching ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Inservice Teachers ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Instructional Coaches ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship

PurposeThe purpose of the study was to provide an example of instructional coaching for inservice teachers within the context of community-engaged scholarship (CEP), involving professional learning communities (PLCs). This study seeks to encourage policymakers to allocate budgets for instructional coaches, as well as resources for schools.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory case study design was used to examine the factors that contributed to the partnership and how the PLC sessions impacted the inservice teachers' practices. Data sources included interviews, focus groups, written reflections, observations of grade-level teachers' meetings and administrative meetings.FindingsThe study uncovered important factors that impacted the community-engaged partnership (CEP) positively, such as partners having a unified agenda, a common focus on the school's needs and an understanding of the culture of the school. Principals are the gatekeepers in such partnerships.Research limitations/implicationsThis study yielded the description of a model of instructional coaching within a CEP that other universities around the world could replicate. The limitations of this study include the length of the study and the time frame in which the PLC content was planned. The study was conducted over 1 year to limited funding. The instructional coach developed the PLC content during the ongoing academic year and that impacted the teachers' initial perceptions and their commitment to the PLCs.Originality/valueThis study offers a new coaching model for CEPs that focuses on closing the gap between theory and practice by integrating PLCs, content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and face-to-face visual support.

Creating space for sustainability literacy: the case of student-centered symposia

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 839-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Ouellet Dallaire ◽  
Kate Trincsi ◽  
Melissa K. Ward ◽  
Lorna I. Harris ◽  
Larissa Jarvis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Sustainability Literacy ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Survey Responses

Purpose This paper reflects on the Sustainability Research Symposium (SRS), a long-term student-led initiative (seven years) at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, that seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among students and researchers by using the sustainability sciences as a bridge concept. The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of the SRS in fostering sustainability literacy. Design/methodology/approach Past participants of the SRS were invited to complete a survey to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of the symposia from a participants’ perspective. A mix of descriptive statistics and axial and thematic coding were used to analyze survey responses (n = 56). This study links theory and practice to explore the outcomes of symposia as tools for students to engage with sustainability research in university campuses. Findings Survey findings indicated that participants are from multiple disciplinary backgrounds and that they are often interested in sustainability research without being identified as sustainability researchers. Overall, the survey findings suggested that student-organized symposia can be effective mechanisms to enhance exposure to interdisciplinary research and to integrate sustainability sciences outside the classroom. Practical implications Despite being a one-day event, the survey findings suggest that symposia can offer an “initiation” toward interdisciplinary dialogue and around sustainability research that can have lasting impacts beyond the time frame of the event. Originality/value Although research symposia are widespread in university campuses, there is little published information on the effectiveness of student-organized symposia as vectors for sustainability literacy. This original contribution presents a case study of the effectiveness of an annual symposium at one Canadian university, organized by students from the Faculties of Science, Arts and Management.

Maintaining Records in Context? Disrupting the Theory and Practice of Archival Classification and Arrangement

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-372
Author(s):  
Ciaran B. Trace
Keyword(s):  
Present Status ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Archival Profession ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Core Classification

ABSTRACT The role and the associated practices of the archivist are attuned to notions of facilitation. Archivists facilitate people's engagement with the historical record by providing access to records in context: a context instantiated through archival classification, arrangement, and description. In the second of a two-part article, the author draws from the archival literature to present a historical overview of the factors that contributed to evolving notions of archival classification and arrangement from the 1960s to today. A review of the literature of this time frame provides its own context for understanding how, why, and through whose influence competing understandings and implementations of core classification ideas persist. In the process, the author highlights classification as a historically situated interpretive act, drawing attention to the implications of various disciplinary influences and analytical perspectives on the present status and future conception of, and possibilities for, the American archival profession.

scholarly journals The relationship between involvement, destination emotions and place attachment in the Porto wine cellars

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasco Ribeiro Santos ◽  
Paulo Ramos ◽  
Nuno Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Wine Tourism

Purpose This paper aims to measure the role of involvement, destination emotions and place attachment in the behavioural intentions of wine tourists when visiting Porto wine cellars. Design/methodology/approach An interceptive survey was conducted with wine tourists during their visits to four Porto wine cellars. A convenience sample of 918 international visitors was obtained. A structural equation model using partial least squares analysis was used to test the hypothesis and the validity of the constructs and model. Findings The structural model results indicated that wine tourists’ personal involvement and their wine involvement have a significant and direct influence on destination emotions and place attachment in Porto wine cellars during the visits, which determines their future behavioural intentions. Research limitations/implications The generalizability of the results may be limited owing to the sample and the data collection method and the short time frame of the data gathering. Practical implications There is a growing potential for researchers and managers to achieve benefits from the proposed model that will support the efforts for wine tourism theory and practice, such as brand positioning strategies and formulation of sharper marketing strategies. Originality/value This is the first study to demonstrate the combined use of personal and wine involvement on destination emotions along with place attachment in a wine tourist behaviour context. This approach extends the scope into a wine tourism context because the combination of these three constructs has never been held in the area of wine tourism destinations.

A Structured Framework for Adaptive Management: Bridging Theory and Practice in the Olympic Experimental State Forest

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-489
Author(s):  
Teodora V Minkova ◽  
Jennifer S Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
High Level

Abstract Adaptive management is a systematic approach to learning from outcomes to improve management. Although its virtues are commonly praised, it has been implemented infrequently in natural resource management because of the challenges of developing a feasible process that can be sustained over time. Our analysis of regional experiences from private, state, and federal lands in the Pacific Northwest (United States and Canada) finds that the questions addressed by private organizations tend to be more specific, associated with a narrower scope of uncertainties, and addressed in a shorter time frame with limited stakeholder involvement. On publicly managed lands, questions tend to be more complex and open-ended, usually driven by their mandate for multiple use and high level of stakeholder engagement. We present a structured adaptive management framework that translates theory into action by describing an implementation process and organizational structure, explicitly linking learning to management planning and implementation, and integrating the technical and social aspects of adaptive management. Forest managers and policymakers can customize our example according to their mandate and management objectives. The framework is particularly relevant to land management for multiple uses, where the uncertainties are abundant and complex, and the decisionmakers increasingly use mathematical modeling to inform their decisions.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING A MOBILE GAMES DATABASE: TRACING INTERDEPENDENCIES AMONG EARLY MOBILE GAMES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana De Souza e Silva ◽  
Ragan Glover-Rijkse
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Mobile Games ◽  
A Value ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

Mobile games have been around since at least the 1970s, serving as an important foundation to today’s ludic and digital cultures. Understanding the history of mobile games is relevant because mobile games link digital culture and urban mobility, and they promote sociability. However, reclaiming the history of mobile games poses a challenge to researchers. Many early mobile games are no longer on the market or are expensive to acquire. Others were ephemeral in nature, leaving behind few traces of their existence. To respond to these challenges, we have developed an online, publicly searchable database of mobile games, developed between 1975 and 2008. This database offers a centralized repository where researchers can search for games by using a wide range of criteria, such as title, time frame, genre, type of connectivity, number of players, place of development, authors, and hardware. This paper discusses the process for developing this database, emphasizing the interdependent relationship between theory and practice. It also discusses interdependence as a value for research, more broadly. The database was developed in collaboration with scholars/practitioners across disciplines, and its future robustness depends on the ability to crowd-source information that is scattered across the web and in archives. We argue that the pursuit of interdependence, rather than independence, helps to fuel research, widen perspectives, and disrupt normative frameworks guiding research. It is our hope that the database will improve the process of researching mobile games and serve as a historical record for an increasingly meaningful aspect of culture and social life.

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