Although coercion by cyberpower alone may be limited today, if appropriate steps are taken, by the year 2035 cyberpower will be a useful coercive instrument of power. This essay explores the reasons why cyberpower is not coercive today, and ways it may become more coercive in the future. The cyber attacks employed against Estonia and Iran provide evidence cyberpower is currently not coercive, a...

Information systems are increasingly pervasive in our lives, and are becoming increasingly sophisticated as technology evolves. This has resulted in an evergrowing complexity that makes interoperability a major issue. We argue that addressing the interoperability problem requires consideration of at least three distinct aspects of data: syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The syntactical dimensi...

Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) fruit stored longer than 4 weeks at 4 8C fail to ripen normally and may develop internal discoloration, indicative of chilling injury (CI). To determine if loss of antioxidant protection in the fruit tissue during cold storage could be the cause of these problems, the levels of total, reduced, and oxidized glutathione and ascorbate and the key enzymes glutathione reduct...