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Multi-factor authentication: A survey and challenges in V2X applications

Today, the digitalization strides tremendously on all the sides of the modern society. One of the enablers to keep this process secure is the authentication. It touches many different areas of the connected world including payments, communications, and access right management. This manuscript attempts to shed the light on the authentication systems' evolution towards Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) from Singlefactor Authentication (SFA) and through Two-factor Authentication (2FA). Particularly, MFA is expected to be utilized for the user and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) interaction which is selected as descriptive scenario. The manuscript is focused on already available and potentially integrated sensors (factor providers) to authenticate the occupant from inside the vehicle. The survey on existing vehicular systems suitable for MFA is given. Finally, the MFA system based on reversed Lagrange polynomial, utilized in Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS), was proposed to enable flexible in-car authentication. The solution was further extended covering the cases of authenticating the user even if some of the factors are mismatched or absent. The framework allows to qualify the missing factor and authenticate the user without providing the sensitive biometric data to the verification entity. The proposed is finally compared to conventional SSS.
Hand hygiene-related clinical trials reported since 2010: a systematic review.

Considerable emphasis is currently placed on reducing healthcare-associated infection through improving hand hygiene compliance among healthcare professionals. There is also increasing discussion in the lay media of perceived poor hand hygiene compliance among healthcare staff. Our aim was to report the outcomes of a systematic search for peer-reviewed, published studies - especially clinical trials - that focused on hand hygiene compliance among healthcare professionals. Literature published between December 2009, after publication of the World Health Organization (WHO) hand hygiene guidelines, and February 2014, which was indexed in PubMed and CINAHL on the topic of hand hygiene compliance, was searched. Following examination of relevance and methodology of the 57 publications initially retrieved, 16 clinical trials were finally included in the review. The majority of studies were conducted in the USA and Europe. The intensive care unit emerged as the predominant focus of studies followed by facilities for care of the elderly. The category of healthcare worker most often the focus of the research was the nurse, followed by the healthcare assistant and the doctor. The unit of analysis reported for hand hygiene compliance was 'hand hygiene opportunity'; four studies adopted the 'my five moments for hand hygiene' framework, as set out in the WHO guidelines, whereas other papers focused on unique multimodal strategies of varying design. We concluded that adopting a multimodal approach to hand hygiene improvement intervention strategies, whether guided by the WHO framework or by another tested multimodal framework, results in moderate improvements in hand hygiene compliance.
Tuning of photoreceptor function in three mantis shrimp species that inhabit a range of depths. I. Visual pigments

Visual pigments in many animal species, including stomatopod crustaceans, are adapted to the photic environments inhabited by that species. However, some species occupy a diversity of environments as adults (such as a range of depths in the ocean), and a single set of visual pigments would not be equally adaptive for all habitats in which individuals live. We characterized the visual pigment complements of three species of stomatopod crustaceans, Haptosquilla trispinosa, Gonodactylellus affinis, and Gonodactylopsis spongicola, which are unusual for this group in that each lives at depths from the subtidal to several tens of meters. Using microspectrophotometry, we determined the visual pigments in all classes of main rhabdoms in individuals of each species from shallow or deep habitats. Each species expressed the typical diversity of visual pigments commonly found in stomatopods, but there was little or no evidence of differential expression of visual pigments in animals of any species collected from different depths. Vision in these species, therefore, is not tuned to spectral characteristics of the photic environment by varying the assemblages of visual pigments appearing in their retinas.
Antioxidant activity of water-soluble chitosan derivatives.

Water-soluble chitosan derivatives were prepared by graft copolymerization of maleic acid sodium onto hydroxypropyl chitosan and carboxymethyl chitosan sodium. Their scavenging activities against hydroxyl radical *OH were investigated by chemiluminescence technique. They exhibit IC(50) values ranging from 246 to 498 microg/mL, which should be attributed to their different contents of hydroxyl and amino groups and different substituting groups.
Compact and High Performance Torque-Controlled Actuators and its Implementation to Disaster Response Robot

Applying robots in narrow and cluttered disaster environments such as oil refineries requires a slim body and a wide range of motion. It is also necessary to have abilities to absorb unexpected contact with the environment and to walk on scattered debris. In this paper we propose new compact and high performance torque-controlled actuators for legged robots to satisfy the above mentioned requirements. For axial compactness, torque sensors are designed as ring-shaped thin cylinders surrounding motors or gears with strain gauges for sensing. To achieve broad bandwidth of torque control, we introduced an analog differentiator circuit into an analog digital converter (ADC) board in order to suppress noise in the differential control of joint torque. We also propose methods to reduce torque ripple caused by the deformation of the harmonic drive gear and electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a motor and a motor driver. Finally, experiments of a collision with objects and movement on scattered debris were executed with a fully torque-controlled legged robot built with the proposed actuators.
RDB2Graph: A Generic Framework for Modeling Relational Databases as Graphs

Graph data mining is highly versatile, as it applies not only to graph data but to relational data, as long as it can be represented as pairs of relationships. However, modeling RDBs as graphs using existing methods is limited in describing semantics of the relational data. In this paper, we propose a two-phased graph-modeling framework that converts any RDB to a directed graph with richer semantics than previously allowed. We implemented the framework and used it for analyzing medical records of diabetes patients.
Improved models for the generation of multiple uncorrelated Rayleigh fading waveforms

An improved sum-of-sinusoids simulation model is proposed for Rayleigh fading channels. The new model employs random initial phase, and conditional random Doppler frequency for all individual sinusoids. The second-order statistics of the new simulator match the desired ones exactly even if the number of sinusoids is a single-digit integer. Other key statistics of the new simulator approach the desired ones of Clarke's (1968) reference model as the number of sinusoids approaches infinity, while good convergence is achieved when the number of sinusoids is small. Moreover, the new simulator can be directly used to generate multiple uncorrelated fading waveforms; it is also pointed out that a class of 16 different simulators, which have identical statistical properties, can be developed for Rayleigh fading channels.
Survey of Research for Performance Measurement of Mobile Manipulators

This survey provides the basis for developing research in the area of mobile manipulator performance measurement, an area that has relatively few research articles when compared to other mobile manipulator research areas. The survey provides a literature review of mobile manipulator research with examples of experimental applications. The survey also provides an extensive list of planning and control references as this has been the major research focus for mobile manipulators which factors into performance measurement of the system. The survey then reviews performance metrics considered for mobile robots, robot arms, and mobile manipulators and the systems that measure their performance, including machine tool measurement systems through dynamic motion tracking systems. Lastly, the survey includes a section on research that has occurred for performance measurement of robots, mobile robots, and mobile manipulators beginning with calibration, standards, and mobile manipulator artifacts that are being considered for evaluation of mobile manipulator performance.
Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments : reproducibility and comparability of results

Five test runs were performed to assess possible bias when performing the loss on ignition (LOI) method to estimate organic matter and carbonate content of lake sediments. An accurate and stable weight loss was achieved after 2 h of burning pure CaCO 3 at 950 °C, whereas LOI of pure graphite at 530 °C showed a direct relation to sample size and exposure time, with only 40–70% of the possible weight loss reached after 2 h of exposure and smaller samples losing weight faster than larger ones. Experiments with a standardised lake sediment revealed a strong initial weight loss at 550 °C, but samples continued to lose weight at a slow rate at exposure of up to 64 h, which was likely the effect of loss of volatile salts, structural water of clay minerals or metal oxides, or of inorganic carbon after the initial burning of organic matter. A further test-run revealed that at 550 °C samples in the centre of the furnace lost more weight than marginal samples. At 950 °C this pattern was still apparent but the differences became negligible. Again, LOI was dependent on sample size. An analytical LOI quality control experiment including ten different laboratories was carried out using each laboratory’s own LOI procedure as well as a standardised LOI procedure to analyse three different sediments. The range of LOI values between laboratories measured at 550 °C was generally larger when each laboratory used its own method than when using the standard method. This was similar for 950 °C, although the range of values tended to be smaller. The within-laboratory range of LOI measurements for a given sediment was generally small. Comparisons of the results of the individual and the standardised method suggest that there is a laboratory-specific pattern in the results, probably due to differences in laboratory equipment and/or handling that could not be eliminated by standardising the LOI procedure. Factors such as sample size, exposure time, position of samples in the furnace and the laboratory measuring affected LOI results, with LOI at 550 °C being more susceptible to these factors than LOI at 950 °C. We, therefore, recommend analysts to be consistent in the LOI method used in relation to the ignition temperatures, exposure times, and the sample size and to include information on these three parameters when referring to the method.
Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially modified PstI sites.

Two genomic sequences from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax mediterranei, where we had found PstI restriction-pattern modifications depending on the salinity of the growth medium, have been studied. A markedly salt-dependent differential expression has been detected in the nearby regions. Two of the open reading frames characterized correspond to two of the differentially expressed transcripts. In both cases the PstI sites were included in purine-pyrimidine alternancies suggestive of Z-DNA structures and located in non-coding regions with frequent repetitive motifs. A long alternating adenine-thymine tract also appears in the upstream regions of one of these open reading frames. A possible role of local DNA configuration in osmoregulation in this organism is discussed.
SERvICE: A Software Defined Framework for Integrated Space-Terrestrial Satellite Communication

The existing satellite communication systems suffer from traditional design, such as slow configuration, inflexible traffic engineering, and coarse-grained Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose SERvICE, a Software dEfined fRamework for Integrated spaCe-tErrestrial satellite Communication, based on Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We first introduce the three planes of SERvICE, Management Plane, Control Plane, and Forwarding Plane. The framework is designed to achieve flexible satellite network traffic engineering and fine-grained QoS guarantee. We analyze the agility of the space component of SERvICE. Then, we give a description of the implementation of the prototype with the help of the Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) and OpenFlow. We conduct two experiments to validate the feasibility of SERvICE and the functionality of the prototype. In addition, we propose two heuristic algorithms, namely the QoS-oriented Satellite Routing (QSR) algorithm and the QoS-oriented Bandwidth Allocation (QBA) algorithm, to guarantee the QoS requirement of multiple users. The algorithms are also evaluated in the prototype. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed algorithms in terms of file transmission delay and transmission rate.
Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs

Potentially dangerous cryptography errors are well-documented in many applications. Conventional wisdom suggests that many of these errors are caused by cryptographic Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are too complicated, have insecure defaults, or are poorly documented. To address this problem, researchers have created several cryptographic libraries that they claim are more usable, however, none of these libraries have been empirically evaluated for their ability to promote more secure development. This paper is the first to examine both how and why the design and resulting usability of different cryptographic libraries affects the security of code written with them, with the goal of understanding how to build effective future libraries. We conducted a controlled experiment in which 256 Python developers recruited from GitHub attempt common tasks involving symmetric and asymmetric cryptography using one of five different APIs. We examine their resulting code for functional correctness and security, and compare their results to their self-reported sentiment about their assigned library. Our results suggest that while APIs designed for simplicity can provide security benefits – reducing the decision space, as expected, prevents choice of insecure parameters – simplicity is not enough. Poor documentation, missing code examples, and a lack of auxiliary features such as secure key storage, caused even participants assigned to simplified libraries to struggle with both basic functional correctness and security. Surprisingly, the availability of comprehensive documentation and easy-to-use code examples seems to compensate for more complicated APIs in terms of functionally correct results and participant reactions, however, this did not extend to security results. We find it particularly concerning that for about 20% of functionally correct tasks, across libraries, participants believed their code was secure when it was not. Our results suggest that while new cryptographic libraries that want to promote effective security should offer a simple, convenient interface, this is not enough: they should also, and perhaps more importantly, ensure support for a broad range of common tasks and provide accessible documentation with secure, easy-to-use code examples.
The Exploration and Analysis of Using Multiple Thesaurus Types for Query Expansion In Information Retrieval

This paper proposes the use of multiple thesaurus types for query expansion in information retrieval. Hand-crafted thesaurus, corpus-based co-occurrence-based thesaurus and syntactic-relation-based thesaurus are combined and used as a tool for query expansion. A simple word sense disambiguation is performed to avoid misleading expansion terms. Experiments using TREC-7 collection proved that this method could improve the information retrieval performance significantly. Failure analysis was done on the cases in which the proposed method fail to improve the retrieval effectiveness. We found that queries containing negative statements and multiple aspects might cause problems in the proposed method.
Three-dimensional multispecies nonlinear tumor growth-II: Tumor invasion and angiogenesis.

We extend the diffuse interface model developed in Wise et al. (2008) to study nonlinear tumor growth in 3-D. Extensions include the tracking of multiple viable cell species populations through a continuum diffuse-interface method, onset and aging of discrete tumor vessels through angiogenesis, and incorporation of individual cell movement using a hybrid continuum-discrete approach. We investigate disease progression as a function of cellular-scale parameters such as proliferation and oxygen/nutrient uptake rates. We find that heterogeneity in the physiologically complex tumor microenvironment, caused by non-uniform distribution of oxygen, cell nutrients, and metabolites, as well as phenotypic changes affecting cellular-scale parameters, can be quantitatively linked to the tumor macro-scale as a mechanism that promotes morphological instability. This instability leads to invasion through tumor infiltration of surrounding healthy tissue. Models that employ a biologically founded, multiscale approach, as illustrated in this work, could help to quantitatively link the critical effect of heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment with clinically observed tumor growth and invasion. Using patient tumor-specific parameter values, this may provide a predictive tool to characterize the complex in vivo tumor physiological characteristics and clinical response, and thus lead to improved treatment modalities and prognosis.
Single-stage high power-factor bridgeless AC-LED driver for lighting applications

An alternating-current light-emitting diode (AC-LED) driver is implemented between the grid and lamp to eliminate the disadvantages of a directly grid-tied AC-LED lamp. In order to highlight the benefits of AC-LED technology, a single-stage converter with few components is adopted. A high power-factor (PF) single-stage bridgeless AC/AC converter is proposed with higher efficiency, greater power factor, less harmonics to pass IEC 61000-3-2 class C, and better regulation of output current. The brightness and flicker frequency issues caused by a low-frequency sinusoidal input are surpassed by the implementation of a high-frequency square-wave output current. In addition, the characteristics of the proposed circuit are discussed and analyzed in order to design the AC-LED driver. Finally, some simulation and experimental results are shown to verify this proposed scheme.
Modularization of Digital Services for Urban Transportation

The impact of digital mobility services on individual traffic behavior within cities has increased significantly over the last years. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide an overview of existing digital services for urban transportation. Towards this end, we analyze 59 digital mobility services available as smartphone applications or web services. Building on a framework for service system modularization, we identified the services’ modules and data sources. While some service modules and data sources are integrated in various mobility services, others are only used in specific services, even though they would generate value in other services as well. This overview provides the basis for future design science research in the area of digital service systems for sustainable transportation. Based on the overview, practitioners from industry and public administration can identify potential for innovative service and foster co-creation and innovation within existing service systems.
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement

David Moher is at the Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Alessandro Liberati is at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, and the Centro Cochrane Italiano, Istituto Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy. Jennifer Tetzlaff is at the Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario. Douglas G Altman is at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Membership of the PRISMA Group is provided in the Acknowledgements.
The Effects of Using Games to Reinforce Vocabulary Learning

Osha Saeed Al Neyadi is a B.Ed graduate from Al Ain Women's College. She now teaches at Asim Bin Thabet Primary School for Boys in Al Markaneya, Al Ain.  This is a study of the effects of using games to practice vocabulary in the teaching of English to young learners. Teaching vocabulary through games was chosen as the focus area for my research for several reasons. Firstly, I observed during the course of many teaching practice placements during my undergraduate studies that new vocabulary in English lessons in UAE schools is mostly taught through the use of flashcards. Secondly, I observed that it is often taught out of context, as isolated words, and thirdly, I noticed that there is minimal variation in the teaching style used in English language teaching in UAE schools. The study was conducted with twenty-nine students in Grade Six in a primary girls' school in in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to my observations of how vocabulary is taught in schools, it relies on drilling the vocabulary to get the students to produce the correct pronunciation of words. Other strategies such as implementing games are very occasionally used to teach vocabulary; however, they are only used for a limited time. Using games is considered time consuming, so teachers prefer to use drilling as an immediate way of teaching and practicing vocabulary. In the school where the research was conducted, Arabic is the medium of instruction. In English class, students are encouraged to speak in English when they answer, and while they interact with their classmates. Translation is generally avoided, but it is sometimes used to clarify difficult linguistic concepts, and also to clarify meaning.
A Deep Feature based Multi-kernel Learning Approach for Video Emotion Recognition

In this paper, we describe our proposed approach for participating in the Third Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (EmotiW 2015). We focus on the sub-challenge of Audio-Video Based Emotion Recognition using the AFEW dataset. The AFEW dataset consists of 7 emotion groups corresponding to the 7 basic emotions. Each group includes multiple videos from movie clips with people acting a certain emotion. In our approach, we extract LBP-TOP-based video features, openEAR energy/spectral-based audio features, and CNN (convolutional neural network) based deep image features by fine-tuning a pre-trained model with extra emotion images from the web. For each type of features, we run a SVM grid search to find the best RBF kernel. Then multi-kernel learning is employed to combine the RBF kernels to accomplish the feature fusion and generate a fused RBF kernel. Running multi-class SVM classification, we achieve a 45.23% test accuracy on the AFEW dataset. We then apply a decision optimization method to adjust the label distribution closer to the ground truth, by setting offsets for some of the classifiers' prediction confidence score. By applying this modification, the test accuracy increases to 50.46%, which is a significant improvement comparing to the baseline accuracy 39.33% .