Since fall 2012, several National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-Rs) fielded a collaborative course to engage students in solving applied cybersecurity research problems. We describe our experiences with this Information Security Research and Education (INSuRE) research collaborative. We explain how we conducted our project-based research course, give examples of ...

In this paper we are concerned with the oscillation of third order nonlinear delay differential equations of the form ( r2 (t) ( r1 (t)x′ )′)′ + p (t)x′ + q (t) f (x (g (t))) = 0. We establish some new sufficient conditions which insure that every solution of this equation either oscillates or converges to zero.

A new stability result is obtained for the approximation of the stationary Stokes problem by nonconforming piecewise cubic approximations to the velocities and a discontinuous piecewise quadratic approximation to the pressure. The basic result is that for most reasonable meshes, these elements form a stable pair without the addition of quartic bubble functions (which had previously been added t...

Nonnegative bivariate interpolants to scattered data are constructed using some C macro-element spline spaces. The methods are local, and rely on adjusting gradients at the data points to insure nonnegativity of the spline when the original data is nonnegative. More general range-restricted interpolation is also considered.

Some recent developments in numerical methods for calcuting solutions to the transonic potential flow equation are reviewed, including (1) the construction of stable coordinate independent difference schemes; (2) the use of conservatiation form to insure proper shock jump conditions; (3) analysis of the relaxation method by the time dependent analogy; (4) accelerated iterative schemes.

We show that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), from its inception in 1930s, did not insure mortgages low income urban neighborhoods where vast majority of Black Americans lived. This pattern emerged before Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) drafted infamous maps. In contrast, HOLC itself broadly loaned to core and homeowners. conclude mechanisms through which HOLC's maps could have af...

This paper proposes a novel model predictive current control scheme for two-stage matrix converter. The switching frequency is kept constant by fixing the instant. strategy achieves to source reactive power in input side and output currents side. In addition, advantage of proposed compared with conventional firstly proved using principle vector synthesis law sines distribution area. Moreover, z...