The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is at the core of vulnerability management for systems private corporations to highly classified government networks, allowing organizations prioritize remediation in descending order risk. With a lack justification its underlying formula, inconsistencies specification document, and no correlation exploited vulnerabilities wild, it unable provide meaningf...

Six bioassays were conducted to determine the ideal ratios of several amino acids relative to Lys. Young male crossbred chicks were fed diets based on corn gluten meal and synthetic amino acids that could be made singly deficient in Lys, Trp, Thr, Ile, or Val. Diets for all assays contained 3,400 kcal ME/kg, and L-glutamic acid was used to make all diets (within and among assays) equal in crude...

We present a supersymmetric SU(5) GUT model with a discrete non-Abelian flavor symmetry that is broken by Wilson lines. The model is formulated in 4+3 dimensions compactified on a manifold S3/Zn. Symmetry breaking by Wilson lines is topological and allows to realize the necessary flavor symmetry breaking without a vacuum alignment mechanism. The model predicts the hierarchical pattern of charge...

Figure 1. The April Fool’s hoax map from 1975. Developing an algorithm to 4-color planar maps leads to two interesting computational issues: 1. Devising an algorithm that will 4-color planar graphs. Since the proof that such an algorithm works would yield the 4-color theorem, one will have to deal with the fact that the algorithm is likely to be not proved to work. One hopes that it will simply...

In this paper two approaches of general applicability for placing fragments of important archeological objects in their proper position are presented. Both methods are based on the thematic content of the drawings depicted on fragments of 1650 B.C. wall-paintings, excavated at the Greek island of Thera. The first method employs the statistical nature of the drawn figures’ dimensions and gives a...

Panoramic images capture cityscapes of dense urban structures by mapping multiple images from different viewpoints into a single composite image. One challenge to their construction is that objects that lie at di fferent depth are often not stitched correctly in the panorama. The problem is especially troublesome for objects occupying large horizontal spans, such as telephone wires, crossing mu...

A fundamental problem in the theory of PT-invariant quantum systems is to determine whether a given system “respects” this symmetry or not. If not, the system usually develops non-real eigenvalues. It is shown in this contribution how to algorithmically detect the existence of complex eigenvalues for a given PT-symmetric matrix. The procedure uses classical results from stability theory which q...

The Galilei group involves mass as a central charge. We show that the associated superselection rule is incompatible with the observed phenomenology of superfluid helium 4: this is recovered only under the assumption that mass is spontaneously broken. This remark is somewhat immaterial for the real world, where the correct space-time symmetries are encoded by the Poincaré group, which has no ce...