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Hardware Design Techniques for Securing and Synthesizing Resource-Constrained IoT Systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has enabled everyday objects to be instrumented and operated in such a way that they can be queried and controlled over the Internet. While the 1990s saw the connection of nearly 1 billion users to the Internet, and the 2000s saw an increase to 2 billion users through the proliferation of mobile phones, it is estimated that by 2020, IoT will introduce an additional 26 billion units to the Internet ecosystem.IoT systems have been developed and envisioned for numerous environments and applications and their rapid emergence has introduced a number of unique opportunities and challenges in the space of hardware design. For example, the application of these systems in a variety of environments has lead to an increased need for new low power design solutions, specifically for remote and battery operated devices.While low energy design is paramount for the successful deployment of resource-constrained IoT devices, their often remote and physically accessible nature has also contributed to rendering traditional cryptographic techniques insufficient to address all of the security concerns surrounding these systems. Hence, security has become an equally important requirement. These two desiderata, security and low energy, are often conflicting requirements by nature and present a challenging scenario for design. For example, higher levels of security often require larger amounts of energy consumption.In this dissertation we present energy-aware design methods for the synthesis and security of IoT systems. We present novel energy reduction and delay minimization techniques applied on integrated circuit subsystems of IoT applications in order to enable near-threshold computing operation with maximal energy savings and minimal speed degradation. We also present semantics-based techniques for the organization and coordination of system components in order to both reduce energy consumption as well as increase energy harvester production. Finally, we demonstrate new techniques for securing IoT systems, including intellectual property protection, trusted remote sensing, and trusted chip selection.
Reducing Qrr in high-voltage SuperJunction MOSFETs by using the cascode configuration

In this paper, the reverse conduction behavior of a Cascode Configuration (CC), combining a High-Voltage (HV) SuperJunction MOSFET (SJ-FET) and a Low-Voltage silicon MOSFET (LV-FET) is deeply scrutinized by means of an analytical model and experimental data. The reverse recovery charge (Qrr) of SJ-FETs in CC with LV-FETs (SJ-CCs) is investigated in this work. As a result of the study, it has been found that the proposed SJ-CC avoids or mitigates the conduction of the SJ-FET body diode during reverse conduction. As a consequence, the Qrr achieved by the CC is several times lower than in the case of the standalone configuration. Moreover, the Qrr reduction achieved results in record-low Qrr for 600 V-range silicon transistors at a fixed on-resistance (RDSON).
RELIABILIGY AND VALIDITY OF THE JAPANESE-LANGUAGE VERSION OF THE IMPACT OF EVENT SCALE-REVISED (IES-R-J): FOUR STUDIES OF DIFFERENT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

The authors developed the Japanese-language version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R-J) and investigated its reliability and validity in four different groups: workers with lifetime mixed traumatic events, survivors of an arsenic poisoning case, survivors of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, and survivors of the Tokyo Metro sarin attack. Evidence includes retest reliability and internal consistency of the IES-R-J. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and partial PTSD cases indicated significantly higher scores than non-PTSD cases. The IES-R-J can be a useful self-rating diagnostic instrument particularly for survivors with PTSD symptoms as a clinical concern (PTSD + partial PTSD) by using a 24/25 cutoff in total score. In analysis of scale structure, the majority of intrusion and hyperarousal items were subsumed under the same cluster, whereas avoidance items made up a separate cluster. Female patients indicated higher scores than male patients. A negative weak correlation between age and the score was found only among female earthquake survivors. The IES-R-J can be used as a validated instrument in future international comparative research.
Imperative of revisiting the operational risk control architecture in public sector banks (PSBs) in India: a qualitative analysis

The banking sector in India has contributed to economic growth, parity and equity while equally keeping focus on profit and social objectives. The successive prudential and regulatory reforms introduced in the banking sector have made it more robust and stronger to withstand the bubbles and external shocks. Still, the Indian banking sector in general and public-sector banks (PSBs) in particular have been suffering from the bank frauds. This study endeavors to cover the increasing incidences of banking frauds in PSBs and probes the weaknesses and chinks in the operational risk architecture at the PSBs in India. This study selects Punjab National Bank as a true representative of PSBs and treats it as a critical case study to apply the learning and findings to the PSBs in India. This qualitative analysis of the study revealed that the chinks in the operational risk control mechanism and lax corporate governance are the main reasons behind the increasing incidences of frauds at PSBs. The findings of the study showed that a strong corporate governance and compliance framework, robust risk management architecture, investment in people, technology and systems will go a long way in achieving tighter control and supervision, streamlining processes and, most of all, adhering to a culture of checks and balances.
Attenuation of Rabies Virulence: Takeover by the Cytoplasmic Domain of Its Envelope Protein

Survival of rabies virus–infected neurons depends on a single amino acid in the PDZ-binding site of a viral protein. Tipping the Balance Strains of rabies virus, which infects neurons, may be virulent, in which case the cells survive long enough for the virus to replicate and spread, or they may be attenuated, in which case the infected cells die by apoptosis. Préhaud et al. compared one attenuated and one virulent viral strain and found that a single amino acid change in a region of a viral envelope protein that binds to host cell proteins was sufficient to account for the death or survival of infected cells. The binding properties of the attenuated virus protein were expanded, thereby affecting the balance in the activities of host kinases and phosphatases sufficiently to trigger cell death. These findings may inform strategies to engineer attenuated viruses, which are often used in live vaccines. The capacity of a rabies virus to promote neuronal survival (a signature of virulence) or death (a marker of attenuation) depends on the cellular partners recruited by the PDZ-binding site (PDZ-BS) of its envelope glycoprotein (G). Neuronal survival requires the selective association of the PDZ-BS of G with the PDZ domains of two closely related serine-threonine kinases, MAST1 and MAST2. Here, we found that a single amino acid change in the PDZ-BS triggered the apoptotic death of infected neurons and enabled G to interact with additional PDZ partners, in particular the tyrosine phosphatase PTPN4. Knockdown of PTPN4 abrogated virus-mediated apoptosis. Thus, we propose that attenuation of rabies virus requires expansion of the set of host PDZ proteins with which G interacts, which interferes with the finely tuned homeostasis required for survival of the infected neuron.
Steady state analysis of a doubly-fed induction generator

The aims of this paper are mainly, the modeling and simulation of a doubly fed induction generator used in converting wind energy to an electrical one. First, wind turbine modeling is studied. Second, the method of establishing the steady state control laws of a doubly fed induction generator used in wind turbine system is presented. The model is used to derive the converter control laws of the DFIG in terms of voltage and angle control on the whole operation speed range. Finally, the simulation work performed under MATLAB-SIMULINK package is used to analyze the doubly fed induction generator and illustrate the performances of the proposed analytical method.
Mechanical Behavior Of Nano Scale Thin Films Using Mems Sensors

Thin metal films are extensively used in micro and nano electronics as well as micro and nano mechanical systems. However, their mechanical properties are yet to be fully explored. In this paper, we describe a novel method, based on MEMS technology, for studying free-standing thin films of nano meter dimension in-situ in SEM and TEM. We employ the method to test aluminum films with thickness 30-200nm and with grain size 20-100nm. We find two unique properties as grain size decreased: (1) modulus of elasticity decreases, and (2) material behaves non-linear elastically. We propose that abundance of grain boundary in nano grained metals gives rise to both of these properties.
Epidemiology of Spinal Osteoporosis

Approximately 30% of postmenopausal white women in the United States have osteoporosis, and 16% have osteoporosis of the lumbar spine in particular. Bone density of the spine is positively associated with greater height and weight, older age at menopause, a history of arthritis, more physical activity, moderate use of alcoholic beverages, diuretic treatment, and current estrogen replacement therapy, whereas later age at menarche and a maternal history of fracture are associated with lower levels of density. Low bone density leads to an increased risk of osteoporotic fractures. Fracture risk also increase with age. Vertebral fractures affect approximately 25% of postmenopausal women, although the exact figure depends on the definition used. Recent data show that vertebral fracture rates are as great in men as in women but, because women live longer, the lifetime risk of a vertebral fracture from age 50 onward is 16% in white women and only 5% in white men. Fracture rates are less in most nonwhite populations, but vertebral fractures are as common in Asian women as in those of European heritage. Other risk factors for vertebral fractures are less clear but include hypogonadism and secondary osteoporosis; obesity is protective of fractures as it is of bone loss. Compared with hip fractures, vertebral fractures are less disabling and less expensive, costing approximately $746 million in the United States in 1995. However, they have a substantial negative impact on the patient's function and quality of life. The adverse effects of osteoporotic fractures are likely to increase in the future with the growing number of elderly people.
The Consequences of Globalization and Responsibilities: Challenges of Sustaining Development

Anachronistic simultaneity and 'multiple temporalities' that we live, can easily produce confusion and we already have too much of that, in our so-called global knowledge society. Therefore, we could start with some principal observations. The leading approaches to globalization are those approaches that come from the language and buzzwords of the dominant streams of economic science. Dividing globalization on different dimensions, aspects, lawmakers, opponents, and so on is also marked by a determined, almost inevitable economic discursive order. Research programs, reconstructions of knowledge systems, liberating perceptions and critical insight of the various researchers can be expanded or adjusted, especially if we managed to have a balanced relations with epistemological, ontological, ethical and environmental issues but also with other emancipated issues (which were neglected in the 'new knowledge economy'). It is the same situation regarding the social consequences of hegemonic economic discourse of globalization. It is useful to go through the trans-disciplinary approaches and take into account the dangers of ‘advanced’ recursive, tautological, positivist, linear, reductionist methods that we have been presented with. These methods are very often put forward by dogmatically privileged economists and as such usually don’t reflect its own, social or cultural rootedness. However, the crisis of globalization which has deepened over the last decade does not leave much time or space but, in spite of this feverish production of words, "we can hardly move in the consolidation of the concepts, methods and records that would identify and assess globalization" (Jan Aart Scholte, 2005) the consequences of globalization. We must recognize disparate human experiences of globalization. We tend to focus on the negative consequences of globalization, the ones that upset most people. Globalization is also a symbolic and socially constructed power of appointing, identifying, perceiving, selecting, explaining, and experiencing the world. Its power manifests itself as it presents itself (to act) as a historical inevitability, like some natural force, like gravity. Therefore, globalization is easily converted into globalism the ideology. According to some social and political thinkers, globalism has become a "strong discourse" the one that is terribly hard to resist and very hard to dismiss. It's hard, because it has powerful social forces on its side that have already chosen what counts as "real" and therefore they shape
A Survey: Information Security Management System

It seems different organizations regarding the grade of importance of the existing information’s role in them need a strong management in order to protect the security of this information. The information security refers to protecting information and minimizing unauthorized access to it. Management system of the information security means the information security of a part of general and overall information security in an organization that is based on business risks’ approach and aims to establish, implement, operate, monitor, verify, maintain and improve information security. In this study, we have tried to introduce information security management system, types of threatening risks of information systems and also introduce and offer proper ways to maintain information security of each organization and then work on necessary requirements in order to design information security system and phases of implementing management system of information security.
A Role for Rho-kinase in Rho-controlled Phospholipase D Stimulation by the m3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor*

Stimulation of phospholipase D (PLD) by membrane receptors is now recognized as a major signal transduction pathway involved in diverse cellular functions. Rho proteins control receptor signaling to PLD, and these GTPases have been shown to directly stimulate purified recombinant PLD1 enzymes in vitro. Here we report that stimulation of PLD activity, measured in the presence of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, by RhoA in membranes of HEK-293 cells expressing the m3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) is phosphorylation-dependent. Therefore, the possible involvement of the RhoA-stimulated serine/threonine kinase, Rho-kinase, was investigated. Overexpression of Rho-kinase and constitutively active Rho-kinase (Rho-kinase-CAT) but not of kinase-deficient Rho-kinase-CAT markedly increased m3 mAChR-mediated but not protein kinase C-mediated PLD stimulation, similar to overexpression of RhoA. Expression of the Rho-inactivating C3 transferase abrogated the stimulatory effect of wild-type Rho-kinase, but not of Rho-kinase-CAT. Recombinant Rho-kinase-CAT mimicked the phosphorylation-dependent PLD stimulation by RhoA in HEK-293 cell membranes. Finally, the Rho-kinase inhibitor HA-1077 largely inhibited RhoA-induced PLD stimulation in membranes as well as PLD stimulation by the m3 mAChR but not by protein kinase C in intact HEK-293 cells. We conclude that Rho-kinase is involved in Rho-dependent PLD stimulation by the G protein-coupled m3 mAChR in HEK-293 cells. Thus, our findings identify Rho-kinase as a novel player in the receptor-controlled PLD signaling pathway.
The Ombudsman: Who's at Fawlt at Fawlty Towers? Commentaries on the Citation Dilemma

The Issues There are two main issues: the first is the problem of citation errors in our literature; the second is what to do about this problem. Reading WA (2) to indicate to readers the most important and useful studies in the field; (3) to acknowledge sources of ideas, methods, or quotations; and (4) to impress readers, referees, and editors. ” While one might refine or expand the list (e.g., Martin himself mentions “rivalry citation omission”), he stresses one critical point: “If the source is methodologically central, then careful reading is essential. ” He disagrees with the need to provide exhaustive citations or read all sources completely. Uncles is concerned with excessive and redundant citations, stating, “the sheer density of referencing is out of control. ” Indeed, a few decades ago, I could scan an article’s references and know the (manageable) prerequisites for reading it. If I applied the same rule today, I would be perpetually engaged in catching up and would never read anything new. Uncles’ prescription and goals are simple: cite better and cite less. While his argument is compelling, incentives and institutional norms oppose those goals (see below). A&W’s reply provides a manageable list of five action items. I concur with the first four and a relaxed form of the fifth (“attempt to contact that author to confirm the citation accuracy”). The last action item should be relaxed to “ensure that you fully understand (and cite) the substantive and methodological foundations of your work. ” When one is at all in doubt about understanding a citation, there are good reasons to err on the side of making such contacts to get that assurance. Most of us are proud of our work and seek to have it used and interpreted appropriately. Hence, an important and unstated takeaway for young researchers should be: “Don’t hesitate to contact those whose work you cite for clarification or advice. ” They will be flattered, almost certainly will
Molecular Subtypes of Pulmonary Large-cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Predict Chemotherapy Treatment Outcome

Purpose: Previous genomic studies have identified two mutually exclusive molecular subtypes of large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC): the RB1 mutated (mostly comutated with TP53) and the RB1 wild-type groups. We assessed whether these subtypes have a predictive value on chemotherapy outcome. Experimental Design: Clinical data and tumor specimens were retrospectively obtained from the Netherlands Cancer Registry and Pathology Registry. Panel-consensus pathology revision confirmed the diagnosis of LCNEC in 148 of 232 cases. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for TP53, RB1, STK11, and KEAP1 genes, as well as IHC for RB1 and P16 was performed on 79 and 109 cases, respectively, and correlated with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS), stratifying for non–small cell lung cancer type chemotherapy including platinum + gemcitabine or taxanes (NSCLC-GEM/TAX) and platinum-etoposide (SCLC-PE). Results: RB1 mutation and protein loss were detected in 47% (n = 37) and 72% (n = 78) of the cases, respectively. Patients with RB1 wild-type LCNEC treated with NSCLC-GEM/TAX had a significantly longer OS [9.6; 95% confidence interval (CI), 7.7–11.6 months] than those treated with SCLC-PE [5.8 (5.5–6.1); P = 0.026]. Similar results were obtained for patients expressing RB1 in their tumors (P = 0.001). RB1 staining or P16 loss showed similar results. The same outcome for chemotherapy treatment was observed in LCNEC tumors harboring an RB1 mutation or lost RB1 protein. Conclusions: Patients with LCNEC tumors that carry a wild-type RB1 gene or express the RB1 protein do better with NSCLC-GEM/TAX treatment than with SCLC-PE chemotherapy. However, no difference was observed for RB1 mutated or with lost protein expression. Clin Cancer Res; 24(1); 33–42. ©2017 AACR.
The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Eocene Series in the Dababiya section (Egypt)

1.58 m above the base of Section DBH in the Dababiya Quarry, on the east bank of the Nile River, about 35 km south of Luxor, Egypt. It is the base of Bed 1 of the Dababyia Quarry Beds of the El Mahmiya Member of the Esna Formation, interpreted as having recorded the basal inflection of the carbon isotope excursion (CIE), a prominent (3 to 5%) geochemical signature which is recorded in marine (deep and shallow) and terrestrial settings around the world. The Paleocene/Eocene boundary is thus truly a globally correlatable chronostratigraphic level. It may be correlated also on the basis of 1) the mass extinction of abyssal and bathyal benthic foraminifera (Stensioina beccariiformis microfauna), and reflected at shallower depths by a minor event; 2) the transient occurrence of the excursion taxa among the planktonic foraminifera (Acarinina africana, A. sibaiyaensis, Morozovella allisonensis); 3) the transient occurrence of the Rhomboaster spp. – Discoaster araneus (RD) assemblage; 4) an acme of the dinoflagellate Apectodinium complex. The GSSP-defined Paleocene/Eocene boundary is approximately 0.8 my older than the base of the standard Eocene Series as defined by the Ypresian Stage in epicontinental northwestern Europe.
VERIFYING IMPACTS OF B2B SERVICE QUALITY ON PURCHASER-SELLER RELATIONSHIP PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS BY CONSIDERING MEDIATOR ROLE OF SATISFACTION WITH BRAND RELATIONSHIPS AND PERFORMANCE - CASE STUDY: MEDICAL EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY

The goal of this research is reviewing impacts of B2B service quality on relationship satisfaction and performance by considering mediator role of brand performance in B2B environment. The population is all CEOs of medical and treatment equipment industry; 147 persons have been selected by random sampling. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between B2B service quality and brand performance, satisfaction with purchaser-seller relationship and relationship performance. Also, brand performance plays a significant mediator role in B2B service quality and relationship performance. And finally, customer-seller relationship satisfaction had a significant mediator impact on brand performance and relationship performance. Also, the pattern of B2B service quality influence on relationship satisfaction, brand performance and relationship performance has proper and acceptable fitting. Article visualizations: