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The recent spread of cloud services has enabled many companies to take advantage of them. Nevertheless, the main concern about the adoption of cloud services remains the lack of transparency perceived by customers regarding security and privacy. To overcome this issue, Cloud Service Certifications (CSCs) have emerged as an effective solution to increase the level of trust in cloud services, possibly based on continuous auditing to monitor and evaluate the security of cloud services on an ongoing basis. Continuous auditing can be easily implemented for technical aspects, while organizational aspects can be challenging due to their generic nature and varying policies between service providers. In this paper, we propose an approach to facilitate the automatic assessment of organizational evidence, such as that extracted from security policy documents. The evidence extraction process is based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, in particular on Question Answering (QA). The implemented prototype provides promising results on an annotated dataset, since it is capable to retrieve the correct answer for more than half of the tested metrics. This prototype can be helpful for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to automate the auditing of textual policy documents and to help in reducing the time required by auditors to check policy documents., Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, 37th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec'23)

The one-pot method focuses on the reduction of the number of steps or chemical reactions in the synthesis of materials, and it is very appealing in terms of sustainability. In addition to this point of view, superconductors are desired materials due to their unusual properties, such as the zero resistivity and the perfect diamagnetism. One-pot, Thus, in this work, we described the one-pot synthesis of YBa2Cu3O7-{\delta} superconducting ceramic. In just two steps and a few hours, a polymer composite solution was prepared, which originates a powder after burning the polymer out with pure phase and with superconducting properties better than those produced by other techniques., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

Social support has been found to be positively related to well being in elderly individuals. To examine the effects of social integration (social resources, social interaction, and perceived adequacy of resources), and health, age, marital status, and socioeconomic status (SES) on mental health among urban elderly individuals, 1,727 persons from Cleveland, Ohio, aged 62 or older, were interviewed using the Older American Resources and Services Questionnaire. Subjects' psychological well-being was assessed using selected items from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. An analysis of the results showed that physical health strongly correlated with psychological well being. Two measures of social integration, social resources and perceived adequacy of resources, were also correlated with well being. Although social resources and social interaction were strongly correlated with each other, they were not at all related to the elderly individuals' perceptions of the adequacy of the resources or interaction. SES had a moderate effect on well being, largely through the better health experienced by higher status individuals. The findings suggest that although assisting the elderly to identify and use available social resources is important, simply increasing their level of interaction may have minimal effect on mental health. (BL)

Examined the effects of social resources and health on the life satisfaction of 330 Black and White aged residents of age-integrated housing. Results questioned previous conclusions that age-segregation is conducive to greater life satisfaction. Findings indicated social integration influences the life satisfaction of Blacks more than Whites. (JAC)