Preventing mass-mailing worms from infecting the PCs in your network is obviously the cornerstone of any reasonable defense against them, but early detection and prompt isolation and recovery of any infections which do occur should be your second line of defense. In this paper I describe the approaches to mass-mailing worm prevention, detection, and incident response that I have d velop d a d u...

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Starting from a chiral invariant and quark line rule conserving Lagrangian of pseudoscalar and vector nonets we introduce first and second order symmetry breaking as well as quark line rule violating terms and fit the parameters, at tree level, to many strong and electroweak processes. A number of predictions are made. The electroweak interactions are included in a manifestly gauge invariant ma...

BACKGROUND As patient satisfaction scores become increasingly relevant in today's health care market, we sought to evaluate satisfaction of the unique subset of patients enrolling in clinical trials in a research facility embedded within a community hospital system. METHODS We developed and deployed a patient satisfaction survey tailored to clinical trial patients who consented to and/or comp...

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We study the interplay between T-duality, compactification and supersymmetry. We prove that when the original configuration has unbroken space-time supersymmetries, the dual configuration also does if a special condition is met: the Killing spinors of the original configuration have to be independent on the coordinate which corresponds to the isometry direction of the bosonic fields used for du...

The K = 4 fractional superstring Fock space is constructed in terms of Z4 parafermions and free bosons. The bosonization of the Z4 parafermion theory and the generalized commutation relations satisfied by the modes of various parafermion fields are reviewed. In this preliminary analysis, we describe a Fock space which is simply a tensor product of Z4 parafermion and free boson Fock spaces. It i...

We explored the use of the World Wide Web to collect health status information for medical outcomes research. The RAND 36-Item Health Survey 1.0 (RAND-36), which contains the 36 multiple-choice questions of the Medical Outcomes Study SF-36 "Short Form" and differs only in its simplified scoring scheme, was made available for anonymous use on the Internet. Participation in the survey was invited...

The article describes the process of identifying 100 community-dwelling elderly adults at risk for physical disability, yet not functionally disabled, for participation in a research project to develop appropriate exercise programs for at-risk elderly. Over a period of 14 months, initial contact was made with 941 older adults, 11% of whom (101 people) were eligible for and willing to complete a...

The 1998 KDD Data cup provides a large dataset that has a number of features which can be learned to attempt to predict potential respondents to a mailing. It is our goal to show that the naive Bayes classifier may be accurate enough to successfully choose who will reply to the mailing. By using cross validation, we hope to establish a basis for the expected performance. We also analyze the spa...