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A practical vulnerability assessment program

IT Professional, 2007
Firewalls, malicious-code-screening servers, and intrusion-detection systems aren't sufficiently comprehensive to ensure appropriate and ongoing information confidentiality, integrity, and availability. A practical vulnerability assessment program lets organizations identify potential security exposures and correct any deficiencies.
Simon Liu, Larry Holt, Bruce Cheng
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Assessing professionalism: theory and practice

Medical Teacher, 2006
Professional attitudes and behaviours have only recently been explicitly recognized by medical educators as legitimate and necessary components of global competence, although the idea of Fitness to Practice has always presupposed acceptable professional behaviour.
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Exploring assessment practices at university

Proceedings of the 14th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2014
We explored teacher attitudes to assessment from a student perspective, seeking to understand why teachers assess learning as they do. Data was collected by conducting teacher interviews, during which they were prompted to offer opinions on new assessment approaches for their own courses, and reflect on their existing practices.
Daniel S. McCain, Christos Sakalis, Arnold Pears   +2 more
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Assessment of specialists in cardiovascular practice

Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2009
Assessment of medical specialists was introduced to ensure patient safety and to maintain professional knowledge. Cardiovascular specialist assessment is challenging, as the ongoing development of new technologies is associated with increased requirements for up-to-date training and acquisition of new skills.
Ahmed, Kamran, Ashrafian, Hutan, Hanna, George B, Darzi, Ara, Athanasiou, Thanos   +4 more
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A practical approach to security assessment

Proceedings of the 1997 workshop on New security paradigms - NSPW '97, 1997
The Problem Conventional approaches to building and assessing security- critical software are based on the implicit assumption that security is the single most important concern and can be the primary factor driving the software development process. Changes in the marketplace and the nature of security requirements have brought this assumption into ...
Darrell M. Kienzle, William A. Wulf
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Practical Assessment of Volume Status in Daily Practice

Topics in Companion Animal Medicine, 2016
Fluid therapy is considered the cornerstone of treatment for patients suffering from various medical ailments particularly in emergency and critical care situations where hypovolemia commonly occurs. The ability to accurately assess a patient's volume status is critical to the decision making process when synthesizing and implementing a fluid therapy ...
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Assessment of learning in clinical practice

Nursing Standard, 2006
This article explores assessment in clinical practice, including the measures that can be taken to ensure that it is conducted fairly and the appropriateness of the methods undertaken.
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Practical Assessment of Body Composition

The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1985
In brief: The assessment of body composition has become an important method for determining a desirable body weight of adults and athletes. Hydrostatic weighing is a popular and valid method, but it is often not feasible for the clinical setting or for mass testing; thus, anthropometry has become the preferred method.
A S, Jackson, M L, Pollock
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