Humans have had a major impact on the environment. This has been particularly intense in the last millennium but has been noticeable since the development of food production and the associated higher population densities in the last 10,000 years. The use of fire and over-exploitation of large mammals has also been recognized as having an effect on the world's ecology, going back perhaps 100,000...

Yes, we are dreamers, because, like children, we don’t like nightmares. Yes, we are utopian. This utopia is not a heavenly paradise come to earth. Neither is it a return to a mythical Golden Age. This ‘other’ place is a symbolic territory, based on our revolutionary refusal to put up with a world founded on the violence of class and ethnic or sexual domination, of the exploitation of labour and...

We explore self-organizing strategies for role assignment in a foraging task carried out by a colony of artificial agents. Our strategies are inspired by various mechanisms of division of labor (polyethism) observed in eusocial insects like ants, termites, or bees. Specifically we instantiate models of caste polyethism and age or temporal polyethism to evaluated the benefits to foraging in a dy...

Human trafficking is defined as any act that involves “the recruitment, abduction,...[and] sale or receipt of persons within national or across international borders, through force, coercion, fraud, or deception.” 1(para5) Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth (CSEY) is a component of human trafficking that refers to the sexual abuse of a child or adolescent (under 18 years of age) for financ...

PURPOSE to examine racial differences in (a) the prevalence of financial exploitation and psychological mistreatment since turning 60 and in the past 6 months and (b) the experience-perpetrator, frequency, and degree of upset-of psychological mistreatment in the past 6 months. DESIGN AND METHODS random digit dial telephone recruitment and population-based survey (telephone and in-person) of 9...

Pentesting is becoming an important activity even for smaller companies. One of the most important economic pressures is the cost of such tests. In order to automate pentests, tools such as Metasploit can be used. Post-exploitation activities can, however, not be automated easily. Our contribution is to extend Meterpreter-scripts so that postexploitation can be scripted. Moreover, using a multi...