A “Storage-Area Network” (SAN) comprises computers (“Initiators”), storage “block devices” (“Targets”), and a Controller(s). Most SANs use the SCSI protocol over various communication infrastructures. Presently, all Initiator Target traffic must pass through the Controller, severely limiting scalability. We extend the SCSI-3 Transport layer to support distribution, and combine this with SCSI's ...

The contamination of feed with the Fusarium toxin deoxynivalenol (DON) decreases feed intake and daily gain of pigs but also affects their immune response (Étienne and Waché, 2008). Consequently, they could be predisposed to infectious disease. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of a brief contamination of post-weaning feed with DON on performance and health condition during po...

Automatic veri cation techniques such as Probabilistic Model Checking (PMC) have been successfully applied in the speci cation and analysis of stochastic systems. Some biological systems show these characteristics, allowing PMC usage in unexpected elds. We present and analyze a probabilistic model for palytoxin toxin (PTX) e ects on cell transport systems, structures which exchange ions across ...

The objective was to develop microspherebased delivery systems (MDS) for controlled and pulsed-release delivery of recombinant anthrax vaccine via intranasal immunisation. Microsphere-based recombinant protective antigen (RPA) delivery systems for intranasal immunisation were successfully developed, wherein the MDS formulations produced extremely high antibody titres (over 150,000) in mice afte...

PURPOSE In this study the effects of small systematic MLC misalignments and gravitational errors on the quality of Rapidarc treatment plan delivery are investigated with respect to verification measurements with two detector arrays and the evaluation of clinical significance of the error-induced deviations. METHODS Five prostate and six head and neck plans were modified by means of three erro...

Executive Summary: Formal analysis of the WAP Class 2 Wireless Transaction Protocol has revealed several inconsistencies in the specification. These are explained, and where possible, changes to the specification are proposed to improve the protocol. The inconsistencies are: 1. The counter RCR may be incremented to a value greater than RCR MAX. 2. Two TR-Invoke.cnf primitives can be delivered t...

The cosmetic uses of botulinum toxin (BoNT) are the most commonly used of its applications. Interest started after the effect of BoNT was shown in the treatment of blepharospasm and the first description of botulinum toxin for treatment of glabellar frown lines was in 1992. At that time, the use of this potent neurotoxin for cosmetic indications was an interesting footnote to treatments for str...

Key exchange protocols in the setting of universal composability are investigated. First we show that the ideal functionality FKE of [9] cannot be realized in the presence of adaptive adversaries, thereby disproving a claim in [9]. We proceed to propose a modification F (i,j) KE , which is proven to be realizable by two natural protocols for key exchange. Furthermore, sufficient conditions for ...

Mechanical systems or robots to assist landmine detection are expected to greatly improve quality of humanitarian demining tasks. These new systems could provide: i) safer operation; ii) advanced methods for automatic target recognition and discrimination; iii) consistent performance with less influence of “human-factors”; iv) better detection performance, i.e., higher probability of detection ...