This paper applies machine assisted formal methods to explore insider threats for auctions. Auction systems, like eBay, are an important problem domain for formal analysis because they challenge modelling concepts as well as analysis methods. We use machine assisted formal modelling and proof in Isabelle to demonstrate how security and privacy goals of auction protocols can be formally verified...

The existence of an optimal control policy and the techniques for nding it are grounded fundamentally in a superlative perspective. These techniques can be of limited value when the global behavior of the system is diicult to characterize , as it may be when the system is nonlinear, when the input is constrained, or when only partial information is available regarding system dynamics or the env...

I arrived home from work to find my husband uncharacteristically sitting at the dining room table, waiting for me to walk through the door. He said, “Sweetheart, I think there is something wrong with me.”My heart dropped as I noticed the left-sided Horner syndrome that had developed overnight and as I watched his face turn bright red when he lifted his left arm. He complained that the left side...

The distinctly over-developed American beauty culture virtually compels women to take part in a quest for physical perfection from the age of 5 until the day they die. Personal liberty amounts to the freedom to choose which of the available stereotypes one selects for oneself. This sad and horrific quest is well-established in Britain, only the intensity is different. 'Children basically don't ...

Born on 7 November 1903, Lorenz was the second and last child of Emma Lorenz and Dr. Adolf Lorenz, a distinguished and wealthy orthopedic surgeon. Growing up in comfortable surroundings at the family home in the village of Altenberg, on the outskirts of Vienna, the young Lorenz was allowed to pursue his enthusiasms as an animal lover. His interest in animals and evolution as an adolescent led h...

Z inder, a superb geneticist (who also embraced biochemistry), died on February 3, 2012, following a long illness. He was 83. Zinder came of age at the dawn of microbial genetics. A prodigy with an eidetic memory, he was only 15 when he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, where he built his first incubator for growing bacteria (a 60-W light bulb in a box with a thermostat). After e...

Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2009 • Oncology Nursing Forum E .P., a 34-year-old oncology staff nurse, felt like she was losing control of her life. She felt a sense of dread and fatigue each morning when her alarm went off. How could she make it through one more day trying to balance her family life, her job, and caring for her mother, whose senile dementia was gradually worsening every day? E.P. co...

As society has embraced technology and systems to promote services, trade and ubiquitous communication, it has also inadvertently exposed itself to a plethora of security risks. One of the most significant of these risks is that of insider threat, where privileged insiders (be they employees or trusted thirdparties) within an enterprise, intentionally or inadvertently cause harm their organisat...

There is a large genetic diversity for fruit size and yield in watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus]. Current cultivars have high fruit quality but may not be the highest yielders. This study was designed to estimate variance components and heritability of fruit yield (Mg·ha), fruit count (th·ha), and fruit size (kg/fruit) in a cross involving high-yielding ‘Mount...