Participants in e-commerce and other forms of online collaborations tend to be selfish and rational, and therefore game theory has been recognized as particularly relevant to this area. In many common games, the joint strategy of the players is described by a list of pairs of actions, and one of those pairs is chosen according to a specified correlated probability distribution. In traditional g...

Purpose To classify different types of “user-visible cryptography” and evaluate the value of user-visible cryptographic mechanisms in typical email and web scenarios for non-expert IT users. Design/methodology/approach We review the existing literature, then identify user stories typical to our users of interest. We analyse the risks, mitigations of risks and the limits of those mitigations in ...

Clostridium Botulinum Type E neurotoxin heavy chain consists of two domains: the translocation domain asthe N-terminal half and the binding domain as the Cterminal half (Hc). One effective way to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin is to inhibit binding of this toxin to neuromuscular synapses with antibodies against binding domain. Two synthetic genes, coding for Hc (the full length binding d...

Fair exchange protocols are important in realizing safe electronic commerce. In particular, optimistic fair exchange protocols, which involve a trusted third party only when mutual communication between exchanging parties fails, are the most promising development because of their efficiency. Unfortunately, however, existing optimistic protocols place restrictions on the items that can be exchan...

Auctions have become a major phenomenon of electronic commerce. Governments use auctions to sell spectrum licenses, millions of users trade goods in Internet auctions, and task assignment in multiagent systems as well as procurement in the “real world” is handled via auctions. The contribution of this dissertation is two-fold. The first part addresses strategic bidding whereas the second part d...

UNLABELLED Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the commonest liver disease in developed countries. However, there are no current data on the cost-effectiveness of therapeutic options such as lifestyle modification, pioglitazone, or vitamin E. We undertook a cost utility analysis to compare these strategies. Using a third-party payer perspective, a deterministic Markov model was developed to ...

Now a day’s, E-Commerce business is very much needed for the individuals and concern. On-line business increases information sharing, a concern regarding the exchange of money securely and conveniently over the internet increases. Therefore, security is a necessity in an ecommerce transaction. The requirements for securing ecommerce transaction are privacy, authentication, integrity maintenance...

The aim of this research was to investigate how growth hormone (GH) cortisol and some haematochemical parameters could be modified by the stress caused by the stages of shearing in Sarda breed sheep. Five groups of 10 sheep each were formed. Group A, only separated from the flock; Group B, only tied; Group C, both tied and shorn (animals in these three groups were ewe lambs shorn for the first ...

Background: Based on biochemical properties, Enterobacter cloacae represents a large complex of at least 13 variant species, subspecies, and genotypes that progressively identified as the most species causing hospital-acquired infections. The aim of this study was to determine the relevance between phylogenetically related strains within the E. cloacae complex and the frequency of urinary tract...

Several research groups have attempted to make recombinant bacteria capable of efficient desulfurization of oil fraction. The main aim of this study was to design a recombinant strain in order to desulfurize dibenzothiophen (DBT) and its components found in petroleum. In this study the pVLT31 vector harboring dszABC genes was transferred into recombinant E. coli BL21 which contained the dszD ge...