Rivers annually carry 25–28 Tg carbon in the form of pyrogenic dissolved organic matter (dissolved black carbon, DBC) into the ocean, which is equivalent to about 10% of the entire riverine land-ocean flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). The objective of this study was to identify the main processes behind the release and turnover of DBC on a riverine catchment scale. As a model system, we c...

We present a security analysis of an internet banking system used by one of the bigger banks in the Netherlands, in which customers use a USB-connected device – a smartcard reader with a display and numeric keyboard – to authorise transactions with their bank card and PIN code. Such a set-up could provide a very strong defence against online attackers, notably Man-in-the-Browser attacks, where ...

This Briefing article will provide an overview of the mobile payments landscape in Japan and South Korea and discuss developments in the United States. Though each country is unique in its progression toward adoption, challenges encountered are similar. Navigating the myriad relationships among stakeholders such as carriers, financial institutions, card issuers, handset manufacturers, etc., whi...

In this paper we introduce a novel approach to continual planning and control, called Dynamics Based Control (DBC). The approach is similar in spirit to the Actor-Critic [6] approach to learning and estimation-based differential regulators of classical control theory [12]. However, DBC is not a learning algorithm, nor can it be subsumed within models of standard control theory. We provide a gen...

Synaptic transmission between rods and depolarizing bipolar cells (DBC) was studied by using simultaneous recording techniques in the living retinal slice preparation. Current injection into the rod elicited a sign-inverting, sustained voltage change in the DBC. Voltage "tails" after the termination of a bright flash were observed in dark-adapted rods and DBC but not in cones. These simultaneou...

Data in this article depict patterns of methylation in lung tissues obtained from the offspring of B6129SF1/J dams and 129S1/SvImJ sires exposed in utero to benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) or dibenzo[def,p]chrysene (DBC) as compared to non-exposed offspring. Genome-wide methylation of lung tumors in adult offspring was determined using methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) with the NimbleGen mouse DN...

BACKGROUND Determination of fetal blood groups in maternal plasma samples critically depends on adequate pre-analytical steps for optimal amplification of fetal DNA. We compared the extraction of cell-free DNA by binding on a glass surface (BCSI SNAP™ Card) with an automated system based on bead technology (MagnaPure compact™). METHODS Maternal blood samples from 281 pregnancies (7th-39th wee...

The Distributed Batch Controller (DBC) supports scientiic batch data processing. The DBC distributes batch jobs to one or more pools of workstations and monitors and controls their execution. The pools themselves may be geographically distributed, and need not be dedicated to processing batch jobs. We describe the use of the DBC in a large scientiic data processing application, namely the gener...

The Fractal Dimension (FD) of an image defines the roughness using a real number which is highly associated with the human perception of surface roughness. It has been applied successfully for many computer vision applications such as texture analysis, segmentation and classification. Several techniques can be found in literature to estimate FD. One such technique is Differential Box Counting (...

The main objective of this paper is improving the BOAT classification algorithm and applying it in credit card big data analysis. Decision tree algorithm is a data analysis method for the classification which can be used to describe the extract important data class models or predict future data trends. The BOAT algorithm can reduce the data during reading and writing the operations, the improve...