For stealing fire from the gods, Prometheus was bound to a rock on Caucasus, a vulture forever to consume his liver. As an additional punishment, the mortals were sent, by the gods, a beautiful and gifted woman, Pandora, whose only weakness was curiosity. Pandora was entrusted with a box, which she was sworn never to open. Alas, she did, and all evils flew out of the box and around the world. T...

Over the past two decades, research has focused on simplifying dependability analysis by looking at how we can synthesise dependability information from system models automatically. This has led to the field of model-based safety assessment (MBSA), which has attracted a significant amount of interest from industry, academia, and government agencies. Different model-based safety analysis methods...

47 samples from the Martignoni baculovirus collection were characterized by PCR amplification of the lef-8 gene. This led to the identification of sequences from viruses that either were not present in the database, or had been identified, but not further characterized. These included an NPV and a GV from Pseudoletia (Mythimna) unipuncta, and NPVs from Coloradia pandora, the oak and hemlock loo...

Saturn's dynamic F-Ring still presents a challenge for understanding and explaining the kinematic processes that lead to the changing structure visible in our observations of this ring. This study examines the effect of Saturn's magnetic field on the dynamics of micron-sized grains that may become electrically charged due to interaction with plasma in Saturn's rigidly corotating magnetosphere. ...

Two music recommender websites, Pandora (a content-based recommender) and Last.fm (a rating-based social recommender), were compared side-by-side in a within-subject user study involving 64 participants. The main objective was to investigate users initial adoption of recommender technology and their subjective perception of the respective systems. Results show that a simple interface design, th...

The two British species of Pandora are adapted for life on muddy-sand. P. inaequivalvis is taken from very sheltered shores at low-water mark and down to 10 fathoms. P. pinna is taken from depths of over 40 fathoms. Both species are markedly inequivalve. This is probably connected with the habit of lying horizontally. The mantle muscles and the ciliary mechanisms of the mantle and gills are des...

Once Pandora unlocked her fateful box and liberated the evil forces within, it became impossible to put them back. Now, new work on Crohn's disease suggests the existence of a viral "key" that irreversibly renders a genetically susceptible mouse prone to pathogenesis. Indeed, dangerous liaisons among host genotype, viral infection, intestinal injury, and trillions of gut microbes may in part de...

Popular music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora are able to suggest songs to users based on a variety of factors. One of the major ones is the music’s genre. The aim of our project is to explore machine learning algorithms that can identify a song’s genre based on its metadata. This report outlines various research methods and discusses their performance. It provides an overview of ou...