The controversial provisions in the European Union’s Database Directive have created considerable uncertainty for commercial producers of databases, while recent case law has emasculated much of the Directive. However, researchers and academics must still work in a restrictive copyright environment within Europe. This paper reviews the Directive in the light of two recent UK reports that sugges...

General overview Australia is home to some of the most venomous creatures in the world. T has been undertaken on many of these venoms. The focus of our group is and biochemical examination of venoms from Australasian animals. We a in: examining whether the currently available antivenoms can be utilise other species (some closely related while others are not). We are also inte primary mode of ac...

A new approach to universal health insurance combining managed competition and global budgets promises to break the impasse blocking comprehensive health reform. The central innovation is the development of regional health insurance purchasing cooperatives (HIPCs) as managers and reorganizers of the market and platforms for global budgets. Financing would be based on community-rated premiums, w...

Competition among health plans, hospitals, and physicians has taken place in fifteen health care markets primarily on the basis of price and secondarily on network breadth and style of care. In most markets, competition resulted in lower (or slowly growing) premium prices. Within a type of plan product, competition was leading to similar prices and networks and was reducing product differentiat...

Since the surveys described in our last report (Crisp, 1958) on the distribution in north-west Europe of the immigrant Australasian barnacle, Elminius modestus Darwin, the species has become much commoner along the western coasts and has finally spread to Ireland (Beard, 1957). In this report we present the results of surveys made in 1958-9 along the eastern side of the Irish Channel and in the...

In this paper, we present some security flaws of the keyexposure free chameleon hash scheme based on factoring [9]. Besides, we propose an improved chameleon hash scheme without key exposure based on factoring which enjoys all the desired security notions of chameleon hashing.

Combining different algorithms submitted to the Third International Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC2004) is studied. For this work, the matching results of more than 40 fingerprint systems from both academy and industry are available on standard benchmark data. In particular, we concentrate on score-level fusion of the different algorithms, studying the correlation between them by usi...

The recent interest both in partitions of finite geometries into other geometric objects and in the classical Segre varieties over finite fields are the background motivation for this paper. More precisely, partitions of Segre varieties into Segre varieties are investigated and the idea of nested partitions is introduced. Other partitions, namely of projective spaces and hyperbolic quadrics, ar...