SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS UBIQUITOUS NATURE

SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS UBIQUITOUS NATURE Kaplan and Haenlein defined social media as the “group of internet applications that built on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content.”...

ROBOT OPERATING SYSTEM

ROBOT OPERATING SYSTEM It is a robotic platform for running simulations. ROS can be defined as a open source meta operating system that provides features similar to an operating system. These features include physical layer abstraction, low level device control,...

MULTISENSOR FUSION

MULTISENSOR FUSION Sensor fusion involves combining data from several sensors to obtain better information for perception. Humans and animals process multiple sensory data to reason and act and the same principle is applied in multi-sensor data fusion. Multisensor...

Space Data Link Security – Extended Procedures

Space Data Link Security – Extended Procedures “The purpose of the SDLS Extended Procedures is to provide a standardized set of auxiliary services that are necessary to operate an implementation of the SDLS protocol.” The three types of services are detailed in the...

Espionage in Action

Espionage in Action a.Chaos Communication Camp At Chaos Communication Camp, in 2015, organizers distributed rad1o badges, shown in Figure 1. These devices are approximately the same size as a Raspberry Pi and include an antenna, allowing the user to intercept traffic...

Cryptographic

Cryptographic Principles “Confidentiality is defined as the assurance that information is not disclosed to unauthorized entities or processes.” As spacecraft require a radio frequency (RF) space link, the only means to achieve confidentiality is through encryption....

DNS Lookup

DNS Lookup DNS stands for domain name system. Several databases are responsible for storing all the domain names online and their corresponding IP addresses. DNS lookup is a process to find the IP address when a domain name is given. The reason to check the DNS lookup...

Email messages with an attachment

Email messages with an attachment In an attempt to protect users from malicious attachments, Duke OIT employs the Proofpoint TAP service to scan and sandbox (test the executable portions of attachments for malicious behavior in a safe place) all new incoming...

Email messages with and without a link

Email messages with and without a link The Duke email system has always been a complex system combined with the Duke Email Pre-Processing System and the Office 365 environment. Users’ experiences have been affected by the performance of both the Duke Email...

Evaluating Work-Related Risk Factors

Severity Of Low Back Disorfers  In The  Roofing Industry Low back disorders (LBDs) are one type of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), which refers to a group of painful disorders of soft tissues developed usually over from highly physical tasks. WMSDs...

New Methods for Detecting Deceptive Product Reviews

introduction With the explosion of online shopping sites, there has been a proliferation of businesses offering to post positive product reviews in exchange for payment, a practice known as \astroturng” . Many consumers rely on product reviews to make informed...

Coupling Patterns and HIV Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa

Biologic vulnerability in women Several studies have indeed found that women have higher risk of contracting HIV upon exposure to the virus than men. A prospective study of 730 serodiscordant Italian couples showed that the efficiency of male-to-female transmission...

A discussion on the sexual violence

Introduction Aboriginal  populations typically constitute one of the most vulnerable groups, both globally and in Canada, as they often live in remote, isolated, and highly impoverished communities. Because of these conditions, “their exposure to risk factors is often...

Segmentation of OCT Scans using Deformable Models

introduction Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of signicant vision loss and blindness through- out the world. The disease is characteristically dened as a chronic optic neu- ropathy that results in the loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axons (i.e. the...

Proton Resonance Frequency Shift (PRFS) thermometry

Proton Resonance Frequency Shift (PRFS) thermometry This technique exploits the observation that the resonant frequency of protons in  changes linearly with temperature across a clinically-relevant temperature range. The application of heat increases the kinetic...

T1 Relaxation Thermometry

T1 Relaxation Thermometry T1 relaxation refers to the recovery of the longitudinal magnetization. The physical process underpinning T1 recovery involves energy dissipation from the excited spins into the surrounding tissue lattice through interactions with the...