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"Ethnoreligious Data Collection" published on by Oxford University Press.

The Northern Territory Weed Data Collection Manual provides standards and guidelines to assist data managers, researchers and land management agencies to utilise weed data held by the Northern Territory Government and to allow them to contribute weed data in the most effective way. The Manual provides a procedure for weed data collection and management that is flexible enough for varying needs of individual land managers but retains enough structure to allow wide scale planning and reporting. - Introduction ; Section One: Introduction -- Weed data collection -- Attributes for weed data collection -- Field assessment of weed infestations -- Appendix A-D. Section Two: Introduction -- Contents -- Data descriptions - core attributes - recommended attributes -- optional attributes -- Northern Territory weed species list. ; Section one: Provides an overview of weed data collection and management. Section two: Provides technical data description for the NT weeds dataset and contains metadata, a data dictionary, and a comprehensive list of NT weed species and their status.

Every year millions of digital records containing personally identifiable information are exposed. When are malicious hackers to blame, and when is it organizational malfeasance? Which kinds of organizations—private firms, government agencies, or educational institutions—loose the most data? With over 1.9 billion records lost (on average that's 9 records per U.S. adult), a surprising number of the breaches can be attributed to organizational practices.

"Issues in Data Collection: International Conflict" published on by Oxford University Press.

This note provides an overview of existing data sources on international migration from and to Ukraine and sets out their main limitations. These sources include population censuses, administrative records, household surveys and data from the state authorities responsible for migration data collection and management. The Ukraine State Department of Citizenship, Immigration and Registration (under the Ministry of Interior) is currently the key authority with respect to the registration of Ukrainian nationals going abroad permanently and for foreign nationals residing in Ukraine. It is also responsible for the issuance of temporary and permanent residence permits and for the granting of citizenship. The Ministry of Social Policy, through its Public Employment Centers, issues work permits. The consular services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are responsible for issuance of visas outside Ukraine and for the registration of Ukrainian nationals residing abroad. It is planned that most of the tasks in the fields of citizenship policy, immigration, registration and asylum will be performed by one institution ? the recently re-established State Migration Service of Ukraine. ; Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM-East) is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union

Migration data collection within Russia has significantly improved in recent years. A set of laws and administrative decrees launched in 2002-2010 have updated the system of migrant registration and have improved communication channels between data collecting administrative bodies (Ministry of Interior, Federal Migration Service, Border Service, etc.) and the Federal Statistical Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat). In 2009, the elaboration of the Integrated System of Migration Data (Gosudarstvennaya Informatsionnaya Systema Migratsionnogo Ucheta - GISMU) was finalized. Its core is the Centralized databank on foreign nationals (Centralny bank dannykh ucheta inostrannykh grajdan - CBDUIG) that carries both personal and statistical information. Collection of migration data focuses mainly on migrants' flows, while data on migrant stocks are an object for population censuses only. Russian statistical sources usually separate data on migration exchange with the post-Soviet countries (CIS & Baltic countries and Georgia) (novoye zarubejye) from data on all other countries (staroye zarubejye). This division is fundamental because of differences in migration flows between Russia and the two groups of countries in terms of nature, scale, structure, as well as the migration regulations applied. ; Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM-East) is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union

The national recording system for international migration in Georgia is essentially unregulated. This is due both to the complexity of migration registration and by the grave situation in the country at the time of statistics reform in Georgia. Unfortunately, in the post-Soviet years, with economic collapse and political chaos statistical registration in the country was disrupted and even if social and economic recovery started only recently there, statistics were not relevant to the contemporary situation. As to migration flows, the strict registration of people?s movement was still in effect in the first years of the post-Soviet period. Statistical services received tags from so-called ?registration sheets.? Migrants could not change their place of residence without applying to the passport service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Liberalization of people?s movement given the absence of a population register made the process of registration unmanageable. Today, few changes have been implemented to improve the data collection system. The legal basis of official statistics is extremely weak. The current law on statistics is a copy of other countries? laws. It is imperfect and does not provide the necessary information, not allowing that information to be obtained or processed properly. The abolition of statistical services in administrative regions in order to ?economize? on staff and to reduce expenses on statistics substantially worsened the obtaining of primary statistical information being Georgia characterized by sharp regional differences. It is unfortunate that current statistical service is more oriented to the demands of consumers outside the country. The statistics reflecting the situation inside the country does not come close to the demands of scientists Linkages between the Department of Statistics of Georgia and academic circles are very weak. Against a background of general reforms, the reforms made in the system of statistics are ineffective. Its personnel are few and frequently poorly motivated. It is obvious that the statistical service is in need of legal, organizational and structural reform with functional expansion and better human resources. ; Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM-East) is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union

Sensor nodes have limited processing power, small storage capacity and limited energy. These constraints make classical security algorithms unsuitable for WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks). Therefore, new techniques that consider these limitations are needed. WSNs have a wide range of applications, including military field surveillance, healthcare, homeland security, industrial control, and intelligent green aircraft. Therefore, network security has become increasingly important. There are various types of attacks that may cause security problems, such as modification attacks and selective forwarding attacks. This thesis investigates three security problems in WSNs. Firstly, we investigate the problem of minimizing the failure rate of packet delivery in the presence of modification attacks and selective forwarding attacks in a static WSN with one base station without using expensive encryption/decryption algorithms. We propose a novel heuristic approach to this problem. Our approach is based on randomized multipath routing. Secondly, we investigate the problem of constructing a shortest path overhearing tree with the maximum lifetime for data collection. We propose three approaches for homogeneous WSNs and heterogeneous WSNs. The first one is a polynomial-time heuristic approach. The second one uses ILP (Integer Linear Programming) to iteratively find a monitoring node and a parent for each sensor node. The last one optimally solves the problem by using MINLP (Mixed- Integer Non-Linear Programming). Lastly, we investigate the reliable and secure end-to-end data aggregation problem considering selective forwarding attacks and modification attacks in homogeneous cluster-based WSNs, and propose three data aggregation approaches which can defend against both modification attacks and selective forwarding attacks. Our approaches use secret sharing and signatures to allow aggregators to aggregate the data without understanding the contents of messages and the base station to verify the aggregated data and retrieve the ...