You need not look far to find a slew of articles, white papers, and research reports describing the vulnerability of voice over IP systems. VoIP systems are vulnerable, but currently, the threat of actual attack to these systems is moderate. New vulnerabilities are being reported at an accelerating rate, such as the one that recently affected Cisco’s Call Manager (http://www.techweb.com/wire/ s...

BACKGROUND Abuse of older people is a serious issue and is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, and professionals will encounter elderly victims of abuse in all areas of the health care system. An important health determinant is behavioral factors, including coping style, which will impact on how older people manage stress and maintain control in their lives, and thereb...

meaning has a significant role in content formation and literariness of a poem, just as form does. however, meaning and innovation get greater importance and broader field in modern poetry. present paper is to analyze the role of meaning in putting distinction between the content of poetic text and other non-literary works. in this regard, a comparative analysis has been conducted on descriptiv...

This paper unearths the contribution of lexical cohesion to the textuality and overall meaning of Malcolm X’s speech 'The Ballot or the Bullet'. Drawing on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) and Hoey’s (1991) theory of cohesion, specifically lexical   cohesion, whose main thrust is the role of lexical items in not only contributing to meaning but also serving as cohesive ties, the paper discusses how ...

two meanings regarding the principality of existence (isālat al-wujūd) can be inferred from the works and words of mulla sadra. one meaning is the objectivity of existence and essence on which many issues of transcendental philosophy are based. this meaning has deep philosophical consequences and implications. it seems that this meaning causes certain problems which make its acceptance tricky. ...

In this paper, we discuss the use of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) of [Mel88] in a controlled language (CL) application. We show that MTT defines a linguistic framework which is ideally suited for the definition and automation of CL rules. In the paper, we first briefly present a CL system based on MTT. We then discuss MTT in more detail. We show how CL-specific information can be represented s...