Northampton Community College

About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.

Investment Policy for Defined-Contribution Pension Scheme Members Close to Retirement

Abstract: This paper considers the investment decision facing a defined-contribution pension scheme investor close to retirement. Specifically, it investigates the lifestyle strategy whereby investors automatically switch investment policy in the years before retirement. The argument for switching is that investors may become more risk averse as they approach retirement and will wish to prevent unnecessary volatility of their fund. This argument is intuitively attractive. However there are counterarguments. During the switching period, investors will not be able to benefit from possible excess returns from equities; if investment markets are inefficient, investors may benefit from keeping investment discretion; and the nature of the risk in a defined-contribution plan may be more complex than many plan holders anticipate. It is important to define risk criteria before determining optimal investment policy. Movement into cash before retirement may stabilize the cash value of the fund but will put the invest...

Secure data access in cloud computing

Abstract: Data security and access control is one of the most challenging ongoing research work in cloud computing, because of users outsourcing their sensitive data to cloud providers Existing solutions that use pure cryptographic techniques to mitigate these security and access control problems suffer from heavy computational overhead on the data owner as well as the cloud service provider for key distribution and management This paper addresses this challenging open problem using capability based access control technique that ensures only valid users will access the outsourced data This work also proposes a modified Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol between cloud service provider and the user for secretly sharing a symmetric key for secure data access that alleviates the problem of key distribution and management at cloud service provider The simulation run and analysis shows that the proposed approach is highly efficient and secure under existing security models

The Effect of Removing Superstitious Behavior and Introducing a Pre-Performance Routine on Basketball Free-Throw Performance

Abstract: The use of superstitious behavior (SB) in sport is a widespread phenomenon and has become increasingly popular at an elite level. SB has been defined as a behavior which does not have a clear techn...