This study estimates the effects of Personal Financial Management Course attendance and enrollment assistance using a natural experiment in the U.S. Army. New enlistees’ course attendance reduces the probability of having credit account balances, average balances, delinquencies, and adverse legal actions in the first year after the course, but it has no effects on accounts in the second year or...

Industry-practiced agile methods must become an integral part of a software engineering curriculum. It is essential that graduates of such programs seeking careers in industry understand and have positive attitudes toward agile principles. With this knowledge they can participate in agile teams and apply these methods with minimal additional training. However, learning these methods takes exper...

that no mobility at the site of fracture remains, the new hone is not at first strong enough to bear the weight of the body. If it is subjected to this it may break or more frequently it may bend. It is necessary at first to support it and to relieve it of weight-bearing. This can be done by the simple method of carrying the weight through a ring, which fits closely around the top of the thigh,...

A 13 month old female child attended the CSU Allied Health Clinic student training podiatry service for assessment and treatment of her pronounced bilateral metatarsus adductus. Her deformity was mobile and a grade 4 on the right foot and grade 3 on the left using Bleck’s classification scale. On presentation, each foot was able to be corrected to a straight lateral border with moderate hand pr...

The bane of all system administrators is the crashing of a mission critical system. Further depression sets in when the crash has caused the boot disk to become corrupted and no longer possess the ability to boot the system. A crashed mission critical system requires immediate attention. Literally, every moment of downtime equates to lost revenue. The desire is to get the mission critical syste...

The control of Johne's disease requires the identification of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP)-positive herds. Boot swabs and liquid manure samples have been suggested as an easy-to-use alternative to sampling individual animals in order to diagnose subclinical Johne's disease at the herd level, but there is a need to evaluate performance of this approach in the field. Using a lo...

In response to the need for interprofessional geriatrics education, a half-day geriatric care boot camp for healthcare professionals was held that covered core concepts in geriatric medicine: delirium and dementia, medication management, palliative care, ethics, and a general overview of older adults. Aspects of the curriculum focused on interprofessional education, and the attendees and presen...

At the end of 2011, Google released version 4.0 of its Android operating system for smartphones. For the first time, Android smartphone owners were supplied with a disk encryption feature that transparently scrambles user partitions, thus protecting sensitive user information against targeted attacks that bypass screen locks. On the downside, scrambled telephones are a a nightmare for IT forens...

Key Management with Trusted Platform Modules The concept of Trusted Computing, which aims at making computing platforms more reliable, is based on a chip called Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The TPM is a chip which provides cryptographic functionality like RSA encryption and secure key storage. The aim of the Master’s project was to analyse and implement TPM based pre-boot authentication for t...

A major challenge in computer security is about establishing the trustworthiness of remote platforms. Remote attestation is the most common approach to this challenge. It allows a remote platform to measure and report its system state in a secure way to a third party. Unfortunately, existing attestation solutions either provide low security, as they rely on unrealistic assumptions, or are not a...