DNSSEC deployment is long overdue; however, it seems to be finally taking off. Recent cache poisoning attacks motivate protecting DNS, with strong cryptography, rather than with challenge-response ‘defenses’. Our goal is to motivate and help correct DNSSEC deployment. We discuss the state of DNSSEC deployment, obstacles to adoption and potential ways to increase adoption. We then present a comp...

Recent studies have demonstrated that the active sites of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet)-dependent methyltransferases form strong carbon-oxygen (CH···O) hydrogen bonds with the substrate's sulfonium group that are important in AdoMet binding and catalysis. To probe these interactions, we substituted the noncanonical amino acid p-aminophenylalanine (pAF) for the active site tyrosine in the lysine...

In the S-category P (with compact-open strong shape mappings, cf. §1, instead of continuous mappings, and arbitrary finite-dimensional separable metrizable spaces instead of finite polyhedra) there exists according to [1], [2] an S-duality. The S-dual DX, X = (X,n) ∈ P, turns out to be of the same weak homotopy type as an appropriately defined functional dual (S0)X (Corollary 4.9). Sometimes th...

Domain filtering local consistencies, such as inverse consistencies, that only delete values and do not add new constraints are particularly useful in Constraint Programming. Although many such consistencies for binary constraints have been proposed and evaluated, the situation with non-binary constraints is quite different. Only very recently have domain filtering consistencies stronger than G...

The concept of color transparency is introduced. This new feature of QCD is characteristic of a gauge theory. It enables strong interactions to be studied in a new domain: scattering amplitudes of transversally small color singlet objects. Experimental data are still few and somehow inconclusive. Future prospects are briefly discussed. This is a frontier problem of QCD which deserves much atten...

We consider domain walls that appear in supersymmetric QCD with Nf , Nc massive flavors. In particular, for 2Nf , Nc we explicitly construct the domain walls that interpolate between vacua labeled by i and i 1 Nf . We show that these solutions are Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield saturated for any value of the mass of the matter fields. This fact allows us to evaluate the large mass limit of thes...