Threats from the within of associate degree organization’s perimeters square measure a major drawback, since it's difficult to tell apart them from benign activity. during this summary article we tend to discuss shaping properties of corporate executives and insider threats. when presenting definitions of those terms, we tend to endure to debate variety of approaches from the technological, the...

Classical planning representations such as PDDL are primarily designed for goal-oriented problem solving, but some tasks such as creative composition lack a well defined goal. Structured performing arts, despite lacking a specific goal for their composition tasks, can be sufficiently expressed as goal-oriented problems for their performance tasks. Using contradance as an example performing art,...

Style analysis is being used more and more in the study of fund managers. Investors increasingly demanding that managers identify their investment style, to aid in performance analysis, while consultants and academics are designing ever more sophisticated methods to determine the portfolio style of fund managers (Sortino (1996)). There are three basic approaches to style analysis. First, the ex...

The paper aims to introduce an approach that integrates a technique of knowledge engineering (Ontologies) and a technique of quality engineering (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis). An approach will be set up that shows the potentials of combining IT-based systems of knowledge and quality engineering. Particularly with regard to the quality engineering technique, the paper aims to demonstrate t...

Optimisation of the reagents used to perform PCR is critical for reliable and reproducible results. As with any PCR initial time spent on optimisation of a real-time assay will be benefi cial in the long run. Specifi city, sensitivity, effi ciency and reproducibility are the important criteria to consider when optimising an assay and these can be altered by changes in the primer concentration, ...

What is tarsorrhaphy? Tarsorrhaphy is the joining of part or all of the upper and lower eyelids so as to partially or completely close the eye. Temporary tarsorrhaphies are used to help the cornea heal or to protect the cornea during a short period of exposure or disease. Permanent tarsorraphies are used to permanently protect the cornea from a long-term risk of damage. A permanent tarsorrhaphy...

In virtual machine execution environments such as Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Microsoft Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), there is the need for balancing their execution performance and responsiveness. Our techniques will reduce dynamic compilation overhead associated with loop optimizations by having them performed offline and the results encoded in a verifiable way into a distribution ...

INTRODUCTION Percutaneous renal surgery has been considered one of the most important advances in urology. There are several possibilities to perform a kidney puncture such as using fluoroscopy, ultrasound or both. The aim of this article is to describe our puncture technique. MATERIAL AND METHODS Correct puncture is one of the most critical and challenging steps during percutaneous surgery. ...

This dissertation argues that admission control should be applied as early as possible within a system. To that end, this dissertation examines the benefits and trade-offs involved in applying admission control to a networked computer system at the level of the network interface hardware. Admission control has traditionally been applied in software, after significant resources have already been...