The tremendous new potential offered by distributed computing, inside and outside the home and business, also carries with it the necessity to exercise certain security safeguards. As distributed, mobile, and executable content moves among devices, the opportunity for security breaches increases dramatically. Also, as device-todevice e-Commerce services become more automated [11], new types of ...

We extend the AdS/CFT prescription of Alday and Maldacena to finite temperature T , defining an amplitude for gluon scattering in N = 4 Super Yang-Mills at strong coupling from string theory. It is defined by a lightlike ”Wilson loop” living at the horizon of the T-dual to the black hole in AdS space. Unlike the zero temperature case, this is different from the Wilson loop contour defined at th...

In the previous paper [28] we studied the ’t Hooft-Polyakov (TP) monopole configuration in the U(2) gauge theory on the fuzzy 2-sphere and showed that it has a nonzero topological charge in the formalism based on the Ginsparg-Wilson relation. In this paper, by showing that the TP monopole configuration is stabler than the U(2) gauge theory without any condensation in the Yang-Mills-ChernSimons ...

E-learning is frequently technology-led rather than theory-led. In order to provide a deeper theoretical foundation for the development of e-learning, this case study uses a model developed from experiential learning theory as the practical basis for the design of an induction CD-Rom for students. In moving from a face-to-face experience to an electronic experience, video content was added to t...