Locating Agency

Locating Lead

CA Corresponding Author Tel: (+55)11 3726 7222, ext. 2165 Fax: (+55)11 3726 1505 E-mail: [email protected] BACKGROUND: We have previously shown that the calcium-binding protein MRP-14 secreted by neutrophils mediates the antinociceptive response in an acute inflammatory model induced by the intraperitoneal injection of glycogen in mice. Aim: In an attempt to broaden the concept that neutrophil...

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

Locating Fixation Tracking

Locating the Internet

Since March 2015, the public squares of Havana have been transformed from places where people stroll and children play to places where crowds gather to try to connect to the internet at all hours of the day and night. We present a field investigation of public WiFi hotspots in Havana, Cuba, and examine the possibilities of internet access these limited and expensive hotspots present to individu...

Locating File Processing Vulnerabilities

An application is vulnerable to attacks if it exhibits incorrect behavior while it reads and processes the contents of a specially crafted malicious file. These vulnerabilities are often caused due to programming bugs in the routines that parse and utilize the fields of a file. In this paper, we propose a solution for the discovery of this kind of vulnerabilities, using an approach that is base...