Black carbon (BC) is a byproduct of combustion from wildfires and fossil fuels and is a slowcycling component of the carbon cycle. Whether BC accumulates and ages on millennial timescales in the world oceans has remained unknown. Here, we quantified dissolved BC (DBC) in marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) isolated by solid phase extraction (SPE) at several sites in the world ocean. We find t...

We present the Distributed Batch Controller (DBC}, a system built to support batch processing of large scienti$c datasets. The DBC implements a federation of autonomous workstation pools, which may be widely distributed. Individual batch ,jobs are executed using idle workstations in these pools. Input data are staged to the pool before processing begins. We describe the architecture and impleme...

Bad smells are usually related to program source code, arising from bad design and programming practices. Refactoring activities are often motivated by the detection of bad smells. With the increasing adoption of Design-by-Contract (DBC) methodologies in formal software development, evidence of bad design practices can similarly be found in programs that combine actual production code with inte...

The photochemistry of 5-diazo-10,11-dihydrodibenzo[a,d]diazocycloheptene (DDBC) and 9-diazoanthrone (DAN) were studied by ultrafast time resolved techniques. The excited states of these diazo compounds were observed by UV-Vis spectroscopy and were found to decay in 300 fs. The diazo excited state decays led to the appearance and first direct observation of singlet 5-diazo-10,11-dihydrodibenzo[a...

The protein expression of the growth suppressive p53 transcription factor and its inhibitor human double minute 2 (Hdm2) is altered in ductal breast carcinomas (DBC). However, the assessment of p53 and/or Hdm2 protein levels in DBC tissues was found to have a questionable prognostic significance. We evaluated the RNA expression of p53, hdm2, and the p53-targeted p21waf-1 and thrombospondin (tsp...

This book provides an overview of secure chips and their applications. It mainly focuses on two types of tokens: contact and contactless. Except a brief introduction to Trusted Platform Modules (TPM), the book does not detail embedded IC or Hardware Secure Modules (HSM). The book depicts the major operating systems and environments (Java Card, Global Platform, MultOS, ...) and describes in deta...

Seeking sensitive user data in the form of online banking user-id and passwords or credit card information, which may then be used by ‘phishers’ for their own personal gain is the primary objective of the phishing e-mails. With the increase in the online trading activities, there has been a phenomenal increase in the phishing scams which have now started achieving monstrous proportions. This pa...

In this paper, we introduce a transaction authentication solution that provides compatibility with any banking transactions. Our solution is based on a novel visual cryptographic scheme that supports multiple uses of a single static share, unlike existing techniques in the literature of visual cryptography. To support multiple uses, we utilize complementary colors in the subtractive color mixin...

There is an abundance of temporal and non-temporal data in banking (and other industries), but such temporal activity data can not be used directly with classical machine learning models. In this work, we perform extensive feature extraction from the temporal user activity data in an attempt to predict user visits to different branches and credit card upselling as part of ECML/PKDD Discovery Ch...