An Inspector Calls

An inspector calls.

Micro-Inspector Spacecraft: An Overview

JPL has developed a small (<5 kg) spacecraft capable of visual inspection of a host vehicle with support from NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). The Micro-Inspector is designed to have a minimal impact on the host with respect to mass, size, cost, interface, and integration. On orbit, the host provides the separation signal to the Micro-Inspector, ejecting it to autonomously...

An Inspector Calls: Perspectives on the History of Occupational Diseases and Accident Compensation in the United Kingdom

The health of labourers has attracted only a fraction of the attention which medical historians have devoted to such specialist treatment as psychiatry, childbirth and cholera. Even at the end of the twentieth century occupational health remained under the intellectual shadow of early modern and modern medical classics, composed by those regarded as the ‘‘founding fathers’’ of industrial medici...

SherlockDroid, an Inspector for Android Marketplaces

With over 1,200,000 Android applications in Google Play alone, and dozens of different marketplaces, Android malware unfortunately have no difficulty to sneak in and silently spread. This puts a high pressure on antivirus teams. To try and spot new malware instances, we have built an infrastructure, named SherlockDroid, whose goal is to filter out the mass of applications and only keep those wh...

Inspector Joins

The key idea behind Inspector Joins is that during the I/O partitioning phase of a hash-based join, we have the opportunity to look at the actual data itself and then use this knowledge in two ways: (1) to create specialized indexes, specific to the given query on the given data, for optimizing the CPU cache performance of the subsequent join phase of the algorithm, and (2) to decide which join...