First and Hopefully Last Lockdown Editorial

Editorial—The Last Post

Editorial ? The Last Post Sad news and hard luck stories abound in times of financial stringency and I am sorry to add the plight of the West of England Medical Journal to the list of woes. With the last issue of the journal we asked whether or not recipients would be willing to pay ?20 per annum to receive four quarterly issues of the journal. Unfortunately despite circularising 4,000 doctors ...

Editorial Commentary First-Trimester Prediction of Early Preeclampsia A Possibility at Last!

Preeclampsia, which presents after midgestation, is the most common pregnancy complication associated with serious maternal-fetal morbidity and mortality; and at present the only effective treatment is delivery of the placenta. The ability to predict in very early pregnancy those women at risk for preeclampsia might decrease maternal and fetal morbidity through closer surveillance by physicians...

Travelling hopefully, returning ill.

Editorial First Issue

With this first issue, we are very pleased to announce the launch of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems. The area of hybrid intelligent systems became an attractive research area in the early 90's and has been continuously growing in interest since then. It was recently felt that the increasing number of people in the hybrid intelligent systems community needs a journal for...

Lockdown: Dynamic Control-Flow Integrity

Applications written in low-level languages without type or memory safety are especially prone to memory corruption. Attackers gain code execution capabilities through such applications despite all currently deployed defenses by exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is a promising defense mechanism that restricts open control-flow transfers to a static set o...