The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) was opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force on 26 March 1975 with the United Kingdom, the United States and the former Soviet Union as the depositary governments. The Convention is to eliminate biological weapons and prohibit their development, production, stockpiling, acquisition and retention. It has 15 articles. The init...

*Correspondence should be addressed to Ernesto Abel-Santos or Jürgen Brojatsch. EAS: Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Pkwy-Box 454003, Las Vegas, NV 89154, Tel. 702 895-2608, Fax. 702 895-4072, E-mail: [email protected]. JB: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Golding 404, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx,...

The aim of privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) algorithms is to extract relevant knowledge from large amounts of data while protecting at the same time sensitive information. An important aspect in the design of such algorithms is the identification of suitable evaluation criteria and the development of related benchmarks. Recent research in the area has devoted much effort to determine a tra...

P rivacy is very important. Whatever it is. The debate on privacy is notable for the lack of agreement — what is it for, is it a good or a bad thing, a right or a preference? As philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson put it, “Perhaps the most striking thing about the right to privacy is that nobody seems to have any clear idea of what it is.”1 In a classic legal paper, William Prosser dismissed it a...

Information and communication technology has deepened the problem of workplace surveillance by expanding the capacity to measure and monitor worker activity. Partly because of inadequate government attention to privacy protection and partly because the government itself has used security concerns to overturn privacy protections, civil society organizations and movements have increasingly taken ...

A recent Wall Street Journal article by Arthur C. Brooks on the Occupy Movement and fairness («Fairness and the ‘Occupy’ Movement, November 25) says some interesting things about potential common ground between free-market ideas and the Occupy movement. Yet Brooks also commits some very important errors. Perhaps with clearer facts there could be more common ground on reforming the economy and p...

This paper presents a novel method to enhance the performance of structure-preserving image and texture filtering. With conventional edge-aware filters, it is often challenging to handle images of high complexity where features of multiple scales coexist. In particular, it is not always easy to find the right balance between removing unimportant details and protecting important features when th...

Article history: Received 30 April 2008 Available online 6 March 2009 Communicated by Luchezar L. Avramov

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In celebration of a burgeoning celebrity pop culture, Andy Warhol famously proclaimed that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Almost half a century later, being public online has become so easy that one wonders how, in the future, one may be truly private for 15 minutes. Both statements reflect the distance that separates the self from privacy, publicity, and that which lie...