T raffi cking is in the news. It is on the political agenda, both nationally and internationally. Thousands of individuals, hundreds of groups, dozens of newspapers are determined to stamp it out. This focus on traffi cking consistently refl ects and reinforces deep public concern about prostitution/sex work, and also about immigration, and the abuse and exploitation it so frequently involves. ...

The UN Convention on the Law of Sea prescribes that vessels have nationality State whose flag they are entitled to fly and there must exist “a genuine link” between a “flag State” (a which entitles vessel its flag) vessels” (the States’ flag). But has neither definition term “genuine as legal link “legal rights – obligations”, nor defines vessels’ obligations. We analyzed status obligations rel...

TTP/A is the fieldbus protocol of the Time Triggered Architecture (TTA). It provides periodic transmission of realtime data and allows for on-line configuration, diagnostics, and maintenance by use of an interface file system. It is well integrated with the TTP/C protocol and is designed to meet the requirements of a low-cost sensor/actuator bus. TTP/A is a master-slave protocol where the maste...

Bluetooth standard allows the creation of piconets, with one node serving as its master and up to seven nodes serving as slaves. Additional slaves must be parked, with significant overhead involved for parking and unparking them. Although the standard allows for the creation of a collection of connected piconets, called scatternet, it does not give any particular protocol for it. Given a set of...

A Bluetooth scatternet is a scalable network topology that is formed by inter-connecting piconets. Piconets are the basic networking unit for Bluetooth devices, but can only accommodate up to eight devices; one master and seven slaves. In order to form scatternets, piconets can be inter-connected using bridge nodes that interleave their participation in multiple piconets. In this paper we prese...