The House Sparrow is a globally distributed species and is closely associated with anthropised environments. They are well-adapted to urban life; therefore the decline of their populations in Europe represents an unexpected event that demands an investigation into its causes. Causes that have promoted this decline are not well-known, but one of the highlighted hypotheses is an increase of oxida...

We discuss the development and design of a Biomimetic Electrostatic Imaging (BEI) element for use in a future multichannel imaging instrument. Inspiration for electrostatic sensing is provided by the diverse species of fish that use passive and induced electric fields for hunting, defense, localization, and communication. Designing an electrostatic sensor is not without its challenges. Hardware...

We present a modular integration platform, combining active and passive photonic devices with CMOS integrated electronics. Based on this integration platform, an integrated Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) source chip is being developed. Such a LADAR source chip can be used in miniaturized 3D imaging systems for defense and consumer electronics appl...

Network-based intrusion has become a serious threat to today’s highly networked information systems, existing intrusion defense approaches such as intrusion prevention, detection, tolerance and response are “passive” in response to network-based intrusions in that their countermeasures are limited to being local to the intrusion target and there is no automated, network-wide counteraction again...

Night-time satellite imagery, as provided by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System (DMSP OLS), shows promise as a proxy measurement of urban extent. Earlier efforts have shown that the areas of contiguous saturated DMSP OLS images show strong correlations with the total population living in those areas. This paper describes efforts at modeling the population...

Passive and composite sampling in combination with in vitro bioassays and identification and quantification of individual chemicals were applied to characterize pollution by compounds with several specific modes of action in urban area in the basin of two rivers, with 400,000 inhabitants and a variety of industrial activities. Two types of passive samplers, semipermeable membrane devices (SPMD)...

BACKGROUND Occupational stress and unhealthy lifestyles are common characteristics of urban workers. The association between health behaviors and job stress of urban Brazilian civil servants was studied. METHODS A cross-sectional study included 893 workers. Health markers, the dependent variables, were: Fruit/vegetable (FV) and alcohol (A) intake, physical activity (PA), including at work (PA...

Abstract Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks are used by local passive attackers to determine the destination of encrypted internet traffic comparing sequences packets sent and received user a previously recorded data set. As result, WF particular concern privacy-enhancing technologies such as Tor. In response, variety defenses have been developed, though they tend incur high bandwidth latency ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate Job Content Questionnaire(JCQ) performance using the latent class model. METHODS We analysed cross-sectional studies conducted in Brazil and examined three occupational categories: petroleum industry workers (n=489), teachers (n=4392) and primary healthcare workers (3078)and 1552 urban workers from a representative sample of the city of Feira de Santana in Bahia, Brazil....

OBJECTIVES Smoking and passive smoking have been extensively reported as risk factors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Despite the biological mechanisms underlying the impact of hazardous chemical substances contained in tobacco in cardiovascular diseases (CVD), studies investigating the association between smoking and passive smoking with morbidity are at an inchoate stage in Korea. ...