Beginning about three years ago, the world of academic publishing has become infected by fake impact factors and misleading metrics that are launched by bogus companies. The misleading metrics and fake impact factors have damaged the prestige and reliability of scientific research and scholarly journals. This article presents the in-depth story of some of the main bogus impact factors, how they...

Power dissipation and energy consumption have recently become first-order design constraints for microprocessors. In this paper we present the measured power dissipation of several SPEC benchmarks executing on a Pentium 4 processor. Using on-chip performance monitoring counters, we dynamically correlate relevant performance metrics such as instructions per cycle, second-level cache hits, and bo...

This research looks at the efficiency of the honeyd honeypot system to reliably deceive intruders. Honeypots are being used as frontline network intelligence and forensic analysis tools. A honeypots ability to reliably deceive intruders is a key factor in gathering reliable and forensically sound data. Honeyd’s primary deceptive mechanism is the use of the NMAP fingerprint database to provide b...

This article responds to four criticisms of the Catholic view natural law: (1) it commits naturalistic fallacy, (2) makes divine revelation unnecessary, (3) implausibly claims establish a shared universal set moral beliefs, and (4) disregards noetic effects sin. Relying largely on Church’s most important theologian law, St. Thomas Aquinas, author argues that each criticism rests misunderstandin...

Abstract This paper focuses on the state of precarious work in Spain: Are all those who as self-employed persons and interns truly operating under descriptions, or are many them employees so precariously engaged that they have no labour contracts? If so, how has this come to pass? Why is it increasingly happening? raises some answers based Marxist approach. We link employment instability increa...