Many companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure corporate computer security. The security protects company secrets, assists in compliance with federal laws, and enforces privacy of company clients. Unfortunately, even the best security mechanisms can be bypassed through Social Engineering. Social Engineering uses very low cost and low technology means to overcome impediments pos...

Cross-company defect prediction (CCDP) is a practical way that trains a prediction model by exploiting one or multiple projects of a source company and then applies the model to target company. Unfortunately, larger irrelevant crosscompany (CC) data usually makes it difficult to build a crosscompany defect prediction model with high performance. To address such issues, this paper proposes a dat...

objectives: an effective safety management requires paying attention to human factors. one of the most important methods for achievement to accident prevention is using safety climate or safety culture. moreover, some studies suggest that in most organizations behavior contributes to 86-96% of all injuries. this cross-sectional study was performed on the functional units’ workers of khuzestan p...

338. Prevalence, Mortality and Outcomes of Antibiotic Therapy of MultiDrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Kenneth T. Lapensee, PhD, MPH; Weihong Fan, MS; Mark Redell, PharmD; Michael Dudley, PharmD; Jeff Loutit, MD; The Medicines Company, Parsippany, NJ; Biostatistics, The Medicines Company, Parsippany, NJ; Medical Science, The Medicines Company, San Diego, CA; Infectious Disease Care, The M...

Parallel languages are tools for constructing eecient application programs, while reducing the required labor. In this light, using the most appropriate tool for each component of a complex system seems natural, resulting in multi-paradigm multilingual programming. The Converse system developed at Illinois addresses the issues involved in supporting multilingual applications. This paper describ...

One of the basic sanity properties of a behavioural semantics is that it constitutes a congruence with respect to standard process operators. This issue has been traditionally addressed by the development of rule formats for transition system specifications that define process algebras. In this paper we suggest a novel, orthogonal approach. Namely, we focus on a number of process operators, and...

This paper presents a new virtual-engineering platform, called as virtual shoe test bed (VSTB), for supporting the design of footwear from the engineering point of view. The proposed VSTB system includes various functional design criteria in order to support the definition of the best solution for each product utilising scenarios based on user needs and preferences. Using the proposed virtual-e...

In this paper, an experiment is conducted on 20 subjects to test the effects of differing font sizes on task completion time and task productiveness. The experiment used 5 different font sizes to present information to subjects before asking them to complete a task concerned with the information. The subjects were measured for task completion time and assigned scores for each task. No significa...

We consider a linear price setting duopoly game with differentiated products and determine endogenously which of the players will lead and which one will follow. While the follower role is most attractive for each firm, we show that waiting is more risky for the low cost firm so that, consequently, risk dominance considerations, as in Harsanyi and Selten (A General Theory of Equilibrium Selecti...