Short Paper: Harnessing Emergent Ubiquitous Computing Properties to Prevent Malicious Code Propagation

Author(s):  
D. Llewellyn-Jones ◽  
M. Merabti ◽  
Qi Shi ◽  
B. Askwith
Author(s):  
Patrick Echlin

The unusual title of this short paper and its accompanying tutorial is deliberate, because the intent is to investigate the effectiveness of low temperature microscopy and analysis as one of the more significant elements of the less interventionist procedures we can use to prepare, examine and analyse hydrated and organic materials in high energy beam instruments. The promises offered by all these procedures are well rehearsed and the litany of petitions and responses may be enunciated in the following mantra.Vitrified water can form the perfect embedding medium for bio-organic samples.Frozen samples provide an important, but not exclusive, milieu for the in situ sub-cellular analysis of the dissolved ions and electrolytes whose activities are central to living processes.The rapid conversion of liquids to solids provides a means of arresting dynamic processes and permits resolution of the time resolved interactions between water and suspended and dissolved materials.The low temperature environment necessary for cryomicroscopy and analysis, diminish, but alas do not prevent, the deleterious side effects of ionizing radiation.Sample contamination is virtually eliminated.


2010 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Ohta ◽  
Nobuhisa Motooka ◽  
Itiro Siio ◽  
Koji Tsukada ◽  
Keisuke Kambara

Author(s):  
Araceli Bonifant ◽  
Misha Lyubich ◽  
Scott Sutherland

John Milnor, best known for his work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, is one of only three mathematicians to have won the Fields medal, the Abel prize, and the Wolf prize, and is the only one to have received all three of the Leroy P. Steele prizes. In honor of his eightieth birthday, this book gathers together surveys and papers inspired by Milnor's work, from distinguished experts examining not only holomorphic dynamics in one and several variables, but also differential geometry, entropy theory, and combinatorial group theory. The book contains the last paper written by William Thurston, as well as a short paper by John Milnor himself. Introductory sections put the papers in mathematical and historical perspective, color figures are included, and an index facilitates browsing.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Bolton
Keyword(s):  

A short paper on social attitudes in the American weather enterprise, accepted for publication in the July 2018 newsletter of the National Weather Association.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Barbett ◽  
Edward Stupple ◽  
Michael Sweet ◽  
Miles Richardson

The planet is facing an anthropogenic mass extinction of wildlife, which will have a grave impact on the environment and humans. Widespread human action is needed to minimize the negative impact of humans on biodiversity and support the restoration of wildlife. In order to find effective ways to promote pro-nature conservation behaviours to the general population, there is a need to provide a list of behaviours which will have worthwhile ecological impact and are worth encouraging. In a novel collaboration between psychologists and ecologists, 70 experts from practical and academic conservation backgrounds were asked to review and rate 48 conservation related behaviours. According to their judgement, this short paper presents a ranked list of pro-nature conservation behaviours for the public in the UK and similar landscapes. This includes behaviours people can engage in in their homes, their gardens, on their land, and in their roles as citizens.


Author(s):  
Satya Ranjan Biswal ◽  
Santosh Kumar Swain

: Security is one of the important concern in both types of the network. The network may be wired or wireless. In case of wireless network security provisioning is more difficult in comparison to wired network. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is also a type of wireless network. And due to resource constraints WSN is vulnerable against malware attacks. Initially, the malware (virus, worm, malicious code, etc.) targets a single node of WSN for attack. When a node of WSN gets infected then automatically start to spread in the network. If nodes are strongly correlated the malware spreads quickly in the network. On the other hand, if nodes are weakly correlated the speed of malware spread is slow. A mathematical model is proposed for the study of malware propagation dynamics in WSN with combination of spatial correlation and epidemic theory. This model is based on epidemic theory with spatial correlation. The proposed model is Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recover-Dead (SEIRD) with spatial correlation. We deduced the expression of basic reproduction number. It helps in the study of malware propagation dynamics in WSN. The stability analysis of the network has been investigated through proposed model. This model also helps in reduction of redundant information and saving of sensor nodes’ energy in WSN. The theoretical investigation verified by simulation results. A spatial correlation based epidemic model has been formulated for the study of dynamic behaviour of malware attacks in WSN.


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