While the DETER testbed provides a safe environment and basic tools for security experimentation, researchers face a significant challenge in assembling the testbed pieces and tools into realistic and complete experimental scenarios. In this paper, we describe our work on automating experimentation for distributed denial-ofservice attacks. We developed the following automation tools: (1) the Ex...

2.1 Beam Structure Many machine concepts have been proposed for the next generation linear collider. A good representation of the parameters for these desigrrs is included in an extensive paper on background issues by Chen et al.,l which was presented and extensively discussed at this conference. Rather than try to make long lists of comparisons and keep track of the changes in the machine desi...

"The study of the time relations of mental phenomena is important from several points of view: it ser ves as an index of mental complexity, giving the sanction of objective demonstration to the results of subjective obser vation; it indicates a mode of analysis of the simpler mental acts, as well as the relation of these laborator y products to the processes of daily life; it demonstrates the c...

Expert-provided operator descriptions are expensive, incomplete, and incorrect. Given the assumptions of noise-free information and an completely-observable state, OBSERVER can autonomously learn and refines new operators through observation and practice (Wang 1995). WISER, our learning system, relaxes these assumptions and learns operator preconditions through experimentation utilizing imperfe...

341 t4 Workshop Report* A Framework Program for the Teaching of Alternative Methods (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) to Animal Experimentation Mardas Daneshian 1, Mohammad A. Akbarsha 2, Bas Blaauboer 3, Francesca Caloni 4, Pierre Cosson 5, Rodger Curren 6, Alan Goldberg 7, Franz Gruber 8, Frauke Ohl 9, Walter Pfaller 10, Jan van der Valk 11, Pilar Vinardell , Joanne Zurlo , Thomas Hartung ...

Experiments with teams of human subjects in which they carry out realistic decision-making tasks are difficult to design and control. There are many variables, each one with a wide range of values. The use of detailed executable models in the design of experiments is perceived as one feasible approach to address these issues. A process for the use of modeling and simulation in the design of com...

BACKGROUND Although animal research ethics committees (AREC) are well established in Western countries, this field is weakly developed and its concept is poorly understood in the Middle East and North Africa region. OBJECTIVE Our main objective was to introduce the concept and requirements of ethical approaches in dealing with experimental animal in research and teaching in Egypt. METHODS D...

We provide a brief review of the literature on exercise effects on brain and cognition. To this end, we focus on both prospective and retrospective human epidemiological studies that have examined the influence of exercise and physical activity on cognition and dementia. We then examine the relatively small set of human randomized clinical trials that have, for the most part, focused on exercis...

The Kennedy Krieger lead paint study received a lot of attention after a US Court of Appeals ruled that a parent cannot consent to the participation of a child in non-therapeutic research. The ruling has raised fears that, if it goes unchallenged, valuable research might not proceed and ultimately all children would be harmed. The author discusses significant aspects of the study that have been...

Uterus transplantation is being developed as a possible future method to treat uterus factor infertility. This commentary gives an overview of the animal research that has been conducted in preparation for human uterus transplantation. In addition, requirements for further specific research activities within the field are identified. It is our prediction that uterus transplantation will be intr...