Europe’s wrangling over its resistance to GM crops hit another point this month when one of the endless streams of Wikileaks reported in the media last month revealed that the US’s Paris embassy had advocated a trade war over the EU’s failure to accept GM crops. The leak said that, in a response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM maize variety in 2007, the ambassador Craig Stapleton, who w...

LEE, CHUL-HO. Design and Analysis of Opportunistic Forwarding in Challenged Networks. (Under the direction of Dr. Do Young Eun.) Challenged networks are those networks, e.g., mobile opportunistic networks (MONs), a.k.a., delay/disruption tolerant networks, and power-constrained or duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where traditional Internet architectures fail to ensure end-to-end com...

Internet protocols permit a single machine to masquerade as many, allowing an adversary to appear to control more nodes than it actually does. The possibility of such Sybil attacks has been taken to mean that distributed algorithms that tolerate only a fixed fraction of faulty nodes are not useful in peer-to-peer systems unless identities can be verified externally. The present work argues agai...

In this paper I argue how we can impart deep understanding of inferential statistics by the early introduction of two approaches that students normally encounter only late in their studies, if at all. These are non-parametric methods and ANOVA. As illustration, we imagine a marathon race where firstly there are just two teams with two runners each, and secondly where there is a third team with ...

The interaction of Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1) with human fetal foreskin fibroblast (HFFF) cell was studied using a recent isolate of HSV-1 which was propagated in Hep-2 cells. HFFF cells were challenged with HSV-1 with a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 1 virus/cell for 24 hours. Flow cytometric analysis demonstrated that HSV-1 challenged HFFF cells expressed increased levels of α2β1...

ICT can support people with physical disabilities by enabling them to access the information along with others. Physical challenge either temporary or of permanent nature put limitations in learning process of an individual as it can limit accessibility, can hamper understanding thus making it difficult for such persons to be at par with others. Learning activity such as following a lecture, re...