Protecting U.S. temporary waterways

Making Decisions About Safety in US Ports and Waterways

The US Coast Guard (USCG) is charged with maintaining an acceptable level of safety in US ports and waterways. Allocating resources to solve safety problems is difficult because multiple attributes of a port or waterway affect its safety and determine whether a particular safety measure will improve it. We based the ports and waterways safety assessment (PAWSA) model on multiattribute decision ...

Protecting the people who feed us.

Is it good medical practice for physicians to " eyeball " a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race? This question was captured in a 2005 episode of " House M.D., " Fox television's medical drama. In the episode, a black patient with heart disease refuses a hospital physician's prescription for what is clearly supposed to be BiDil, the drug ...

Nucleolar caspase-2: Protecting us from DNA damage

Caspase-2 triggers apoptosis, but how it is activated by different stimuli is unclear. In this issue, Ando et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201608095) delineate two pathways of caspase-2 activation and show that, in response to DNA damage, caspase-2 forms a complex with the PIDDosome and NPM1 within the nucleolus.

Meeting the FDA’s Initiative for Protecting the US Drug Supply†

Distributed Temporary Pseudonyms: A New Approach for Protecting Location Information in Mobile Communication Networks

One of the major security aspects in mobile communication networks concerns information about the localization of the (mobile) network user. This information may be protected by establishing a trusted third party that is responsible for creating suitable pseudonyms for the user identity. Distributing the maintenance of pseudonyms among n independent trusted parties allows to increase further th...