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Privacy in the Internet of Things: threats and challenges

The Internet of Things paradigm envisions the pervasive interconnection and cooperation of smart things over the current and future Internet infrastructure. The Internet of Things is, thus, the evolution of the Internet to cover the real world, enabling many new services that will improve people's everyday lives, spawn new businesses, and make buildings, cities, and transport smarter. Smart things allow indeed for ubiquitous data collection or tracking, but these useful features are also examples of privacy threats that are already now limiting the success of the Internet of Things vision when not implemented correctly. These threats involve new challenges such as the pervasive privacy-aware management of personal data or methods to control or avoid ubiquitous tracking and profiling. This paper analyzes the privacy issues in the Internet of Things in detail. To this end, we first discuss the evolving features and trends in the Internet of Things with the goal of scrutinizing their privacy implications. Second, we classify and examine privacy threats in this new setting, pointing out the challenges that need to be overcome to ensure that the Internet of Things becomes a reality. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Subjective Memory Complaints of HIV/AIDS Patients in Iran: Relationships with Mood, Social Support, Medical Symptoms and Substance Abuse.

INTRODUCTION Several studies suggested that subjective memory complaints in HIV-infected patients are influenced by factors the same as mood, social support and medical symptoms. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between depression, anxiety, social support and substance abuse with memory complaints in HIV/AIDS patients. METHOD To accomplish this goal, in a correlation study, 220 Iranian adults (146 males and 74 females) selected from the Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Center in Shiraz in 2012, completed these measures: Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21), The Patient's Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI), Quality of Relationship Inventory (QRI) and Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). Analyses were performed using the SPSS-16. RESULTS Results showed that better performance of memory, was associated with being female, higher levels of education and lower years of substance abuse. Also, multiple regression analysis revealed that anxiety, substance abuse and depression can explain 43 percent of subjective memory complaint. Anxiety had the most contribution in predicting complaints and after that, substance abuse was more important. Objective memory performance had a significant correlation with complaints but was not a significant predictor of subjective memory complaints. There was no relationship between subjective complaints and social support. CONCLUSION According to results, it seems that in treatment plans for these patients, focusing on emotional problems, to improving subjective complaints, is necessary.
Semantic predicate types and approximation for class-based object oriented programming

We apply the principles of the intersection type discipline to the study of class-based object oriented programs and; our work follows from a similar approach (in the context of Abadi and Cardelli's ς-object calculus) taken by van Bakel and de'Liguoro. We define an extension of Featherweight Java, pFJ, and present a predicate system which we show to be sound and expressive. We also show that our system provides a semantic underpinning for the object oriented paradigm by generalising the concept of approximant from the Lambda Calculus and demonstrating an approximation result: all expressions to which we can assign a predicate have an approximant that satisfies the same predicate. Crucial to this result is the notion of predicate language, which associates a family of predicates with a class.
Electron Density Distributions in Saturn's Ionosphere

Between 26 April and 15 September 2017, Cassini executed 23 highly inclined Grand Finale orbits through a new frontier for space exploration, the narrow region between Saturn and the D Ring, providing the first opportunity for obtaining in situ ionospheric measurements. During the Grand Finale orbits, the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument observed broadband whistler mode emissions and narrowband upper hybrid frequency emissions. Using known wave propagation characteristics of these two plasma wave modes, the electron density is derived over a broad range of ionospheric latitudes and altitudes. A two‐part exponential scale height model is fitted to the electron density measurements. The model yields a double‐layered ionosphere with plasma scale heights of 545/575 km for the northern/southern hemispheres below 4,500 km and plasma scale heights of 4,780/2,360 km for the northern/southern hemispheres above 4,500 km. The interpretation of these layers involves the interaction between the rings and the ionosphere.
Stable isotope signatures of moose in relation to seasonal forage composition: a hypothesis.

Forage plants consumed by moose (Alces alces) during winter are isotopically divergent from the forage plants potentially eaten duringsummer. I examined the natural abundance of "N and "C in moose from north-central Alaska, USA, to test the hypothesis that seasonal variation (summer versus winter) in the isotopic composition of the diet can be used to make infirences about food habits across seasons througha temporal record in hooves of moose. Moose hooves collected from hunter-killed males during autumn exhibited temporal oscillations in stable isotope signatures for both carbon and nitrogen. Data on hoof growth in cervids and additional isotope data from immature moose strongly suggest that observed variation in mature animals reflected diet,and comprised a time frame of slightly < 2 years. This isotopic technique has the potential for reconstruction of diets in moose throughout the year without repeated sampling over that time interval, and allows for comparisons of diets among regional populations without extensive fieldwork. ALCES VOL. 37 (2): 329-337 (2001)
Molecular signaling of pruritus induced by endothelin-1 in mice

Endothelin-1 (ET-1) has recently been identified to evoke pruritus/itching sensation in both humans and animals. It is most likely that the signaling is through the specific G-protein-coupled ETA and ETB receptors, but the downstream signaling mediators for ET-1 remain elusive. In the present study, we examined the potential involvement of several distinct signaling molecules in ET-1-induced pruritus in a murine model. We applied an in vivo pruritus model in C57BL/6J mice by injecting ET-1 intradermally into the scruff, and recording the number of scratching bouts within 30 min after injection. Then specific antagonists/inhibitors for distinct signaling molecules, including cell-surface ETA and ETB receptors, histamine receptor type 1 (H1 receptor), protein kinases A (PKA) and C (PKC), phospholipase C (PLC) or adenylyl cyclase (AC), were co-injected with ET-1. The results showed that ET-1 induced a vigorous scratching response in mice in a dose-dependent manner. This response was further enhanced by a specific antagonist for ETB receptor, BQ-788, reduced by a specific antagonist for ETA receptor, BQ-123, and not affected by mepyramine, the specific inhibitor for H1 receptor. In addition, the scratching response was significantly reduced by inhibitors for PKC and AC, but was significantly enhanced by PLC inhibitor, while PKA inhibitors showed no effects in the ET-1-induced scratching response. Our data suggested that ET-1 may signal through the ETA receptor, AC and PKC pathway to induce pruritus sensation, while ETB receptor and PLC may antagonize the pruritus evoked by ET-1. These results may provide a basis for the future development of antipruritic therapy.
2D and 3D Video Scene Text Classification

Text detection and recognition is a challenging problem in document analysis due to the presence of the unpredictable nature of video texts, such as the variations of orientation, font and size, illumination effects, and even different 2D/3D text shadows. In this paper, we propose a novel horizontal and vertical symmetry feature by calculating the gradient direction and the gradient magnitude of each text candidate, which results in Potential Text Candidates (PTCs) after applying the k-means clustering algorithm on the gradient image of each input frame. To verify PTCs, we explore temporal information of video by proposing an iterative process that continuously verifies the PTCs of the first frame and the successive frames, until the process meets the converging criterion. This outputs Stable Potential Text Candidates (SPTCs). For each SPTC, the method obtains text representatives with the help of the edge image of the input frame. Then for each text representative, we divide it into four quadrants and check a new Mutual Nearest Neighbor Symmetry (MNNS) based on the dominant stroke width distances of the four quadrants. A voting method is finally proposed to classify each text block as either 2D or 3D by counting the text representatives that satisfy MNNS. Experimental results on classifying 2D and 3D text images are promising, and the results are further validated by text detection and recognition before classification and after classification with the exiting methods, respectively.
The Iron Discrepancy in Elliptical Galaxies after ASCA

We present estimates for the iron content of the stellar and diffused components of elliptical galaxies, as derived respectively from integrated optical spectra and from ASCA X-ray observations. A macroscopic discrepancy emerges between the expected iron abundances in the hot interstellar medium (ISM) and what is indicated by the X-ray observations, especially when allowance is made for the current iron enrichment by Type Ia supernovae. This strong discrepancy, that in some extreme instances may be as large as a factor of ~20, calls into question our current understanding of supernova enrichment and chemical evolution of galaxies. We discuss several astrophysical implications of the inferred low iron abundances in the ISM, including the chemical evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, the evolution of gas flows in elliptical galaxies, and the heating of the intracluster medium. Some of the consequences appear hard to accept, and in the attempt to avoid some of the difficulties we explore ways of hiding or diluting iron in the ISM of ellipticals. None of these possibilities appears astrophysically plausible, and we alternatively raise the question of the reliability of iron L line diagnostic tools that are currently used to infer abundances from X-ray spectra. Various thin-plasma emission models are shown to give iron abundances that may differ significantly, especially at low temperatures (kT ≲ 1 keV), when the iron L complex is dominated by iron ions with still many bound electrons. From a collection of ASCA and other X-ray observatory data, it is shown that current thin-plasma codes tend to give very low iron abundances when the temperature of the objects is below ~1 keV. Such objects include various types of binary stars, supernova remnants, starburst galaxies, and AGNs, with the case of galaxy groups being especially well documented. We conclude that, besides rethinking the chemical evolution of galaxies, one should also consider the possibility that existing thin-plasma models may incorporate inaccurate atomic physics for the ions responsible for the iron L complex.
Diuretic response and renal function in heart failure

In patients with heart failure fluid overload is a frequently occurring problem, which is among others caused by an impaired function of the heart. This fluid overload may lead to severe dyspnea warranting an acute hospitalization. The first choice treatment of this fluid overload is administration of water pills. The effect of these pills is that excess water is lost with the urine. The research in this thesis showed that a great number of patients do not respond well to this treatment. A poor response is also associated with higher hospitalization and mortality rates and is therefore a great problem. One of the reasons why these patients do not respond well are renal adaptations. This causes an impaired response as these pills act on the kidney. Several biomarkers in the circulation can help in assessing both renal function and response to these water pills. Our research also showed that clincians can already assess response to treatment 24 hours after starting. Future research will have to show whether (additional) treatment with other medications will improve the response and hopefully also survival of these severely diseased patients.
A pilot study and randomized controlled trial of the mindful self-compassion program.

OBJECTIVES The aim of these two studies was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, an 8-week workshop designed to train people to be more self-compassionate. METHODS Study 1 was a pilot study that examined change scores in self-compassion, mindfulness, and various wellbeing outcomes among community adults (N = 21; mean [M] age = 51.26, 95% female). Study 2 was a randomized controlled trial that compared a treatment group (N = 25; M age = 51.21; 78% female) with a waitlist control group (N = 27; M age = 49.11; 82% female). RESULTS Study 1 found significant pre/post gains in self-compassion, mindfulness, and various wellbeing outcomes. Study 2 found that compared with the control group, intervention participants reported significantly larger increases in self-compassion, mindfulness, and wellbeing. Gains were maintained at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups. CONCLUSIONS The MSC program appears to be effective at enhancing self-compassion, mindfulness, and wellbeing.
Plant cell wall integrity maintenance and pattern-triggered immunity modulate jointly plant stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Plant immunity + wall integrity coordinate defense

Plant cells are surrounded by walls, which must often meet opposing functional requirements during plant growth and defense. The cells meet them by modifying wall structure and composition in a tightly controlled and adaptive manner. The modifications seem to be mediated by a dedicated cell wall integrity (CWI) maintenance mechanism. Currently the mode of action of the mechanism is not understood and it is unclear how its activity is coordinated with established plant defense signaling. We investigated responses to induced cell wall damage (CWD) impairing CWI and the underlying mechanism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Interestingly inhibitor- and enzyme-derived CWD induced similar, turgor-sensitive stress responses. Genetic analysis showed that the receptor-like kinase (RLK) FEI2 and the mechano-sensitive, plasma membrane-localized Ca 2+ - channel MCA1 function downstream of the THE1 RLK in CWD perception. Phenotypic clustering with 27 genotypes identified a core group of RLKs and ion channels, required for activation of CWD responses. By contrast, the responses were repressed by pattern-triggered immune (PTI) signaling components including PEPR1 and 2, the receptors for the immune signaling peptide At Pep1. Interestingly At Pep1 application repressed CWD-induced phytohormone accumulation in a PEPR1/2 -dependent manner. These results suggest that PTI suppresses CWD-induced defense responses through elicitor peptide-mediated signaling during defense response activation. If PTI is impaired, the suppression of CWD-induced responses is alleviated, thus compensating for defective PTI. and show pattern triggered immunity (PTI) and maintenance in These results suggest how regulate biotic with plants possibly through enhanced activation of
Effective Attacks and Provable Defenses for Website Fingerprinting

Website fingerprinting attacks allow a local, passive eavesdropper to identify a user's web activity by leveraging packet sequence information. These attacks break the privacy expected by users of privacy technologies, including low-latency anonymity networks such as Tor. In this paper, we show a new attack that achieves significantly higher accuracy than previous attacks in the same field, further highlighting website fingerprinting as a genuine threat to web privacy. We test our attack under a large open-world experimental setting, where the client can visit pages that the attacker is not aware of. We found that our new attack is much more accurate than previous attempts, especially for an attacker monitoring a set of sites with low base incidence rate. We can correctly determine which of 100 monitored web pages a client is visiting (out of a significantly larger universe) at an 85% true positive rate with a false positive rate of 0.6%, compared to the best of 83% true positive rate with a false positive rate of 6% in previous work. To defend against such attacks, we need provably effective defenses. We show how simulatable, deterministic defenses can be provably private, and we show that bandwidth overhead optimality can be achieved for these defenses by using a supersequence over anonymity sets of packet sequences. We design a new defense by approximating this optimal strategy and demonstrate that this new defense is able to defeat any attack at a lower cost on bandwidth than the previous best.
Wound care

After 48 Hours Remove the dressing and clean the wound. After 48 hours clean the wound daily until healed or sutures are removed. Follow the steps below to clean and care for the wound. 1. Wash your hands. 2. Carefully wash the area with a gentle, unscented soap. Rinse well. Let area air dry or gently pat dry. The crust, if there is any, will slowly come off as you clean daily; do not force crust off. 3. Apply Vaseline to the wound after cleaning. 4. Cover with band-aid or other dressing. If the band-aid is irritating your skin, try putting the band-aid in different directions. You could also make a dressing with a small, nonstick pad held in place by paper tape. You may apply over-thecounter hydrocortisone cream to irritated skin; do not put on biopsy or surgical site.
Two-dimensional image processing without transpose

This paper provides a new solution to the cache efficiency problem in processing large two-dimensional image at both row and column directions, by implementing a special SDRAM controller in FPGA which can access image data at both directions efficiently and by employing some accessing rules in software which can guarantee cache coherence. By contrast with traditional corner turn (transpose of matrix) method, our design consumes less hardware resources by making additional corner turn memory unnecessary, and has the processing time shortened by skipping the comer turn phase.
Effect of Poria Powder with Five Herbs on Chronic Subdural Hematoma

Introduction Chronic subdural hematoma (hereafter CSDH) is a gradual accumulation of blood below the dura mater over more than three weeks, generally after a very minor head injury. The hematoma is encapsulated, in which old liquefied blood is found. In recent years, increases in the number of the elderly and image analyzing examinations such as CT/MR images have contributed to an improved detection of CSDHs, for which surgery is a recognized and established method of treatment. However, even if CSDH shows up on CT images, some patients do not exhibit the signs and symptoms indicative of CSDH or merely show very mild symptoms. There are also patients who do not desire an operation. Moreover, the recurrence of CSDH after surgery occurs in 10 to 20%12,19,23 of patients. Patients who are prone to bleeding or have complications are hesitant to undergo surgery. On the other hand, it must be kept in mind that CSDHs may heal spontaneously,3,16 which is said to occur in 2.8 to 21% of patients with mild mass effect who do not show signs and symptoms or have very mild symptoms.4,15,17 For this reason, non-operative treatment may be selected depending on the patient. In terms of non-operative procedures for CSDHs, hyperosmolar therapy8,22 with mannitol and steroid hormone therapy1,2,18 have been reported. Recently, practitioners in the field of cranial nerve surgery have had another look at Kampo treatment and treatment of CSDH with Kampo medicines 9,10,14,21,15 for CSDHs has occasionally been seen. However, only a few case reports have been published and Kampo treatment has not been established for CSDH. Since January 2006, we have used Poria Powder with Five Herbs for some patients with CSDH and studied its efficacy.11 This study reports the efficacy of the medicine for CSDH obtained through conducting CTs with long-term follow-up.
Designing Prosodic Databases for Automatic Modeling of Slovenian Language in a Multilingual TTS System

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Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery without Viscoelastic Substance

The cataract surgeries are widely performed around the world which are relevant to restore and maintain good sigh over the years [1]. This surgery take place into the anterior chamber of the eye and viscoleastics substance (VS) improves their outcome, because they could be useful to maintain stability and produce protection for the corneal endothelial cells as different publications shows [2-8]. Since 1970’s, VS has begin to progress and today they are popular and indispensable for integral parts of intraocular surgery.