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Project Eban: a giant step forward.

The Genome 10K Project: a way forward.

The Genome 10K Project was established in 2009 by a consortium of biologists and genome scientists determined to facilitate the sequencing and analysis of the complete genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species. Since then the number of selected and initiated species has risen from ∼26 to 277 sequenced or ongoing with funding, an approximately tenfold increase in five years. Here we summarize the adv...

Development of a forward chain approach for calculating self-delay of project activities

In the field of management, the delay within projects is a prominent and contentious issue. Due to the fact that delay leads to cost and time over-runs, it is often the subject of litigation claims and creation of managerial tensions. In a bid to bring such delays under control and also to diminish managerial tensions, it is necessary to recognize and understand the following four concepts:"typ...

Project Managers Competencies based on ICB and Project Management Processes based on PMBOK in Project Based Organization (Case study: Hydropower Plants Management)

Effective implementation of managerial systems needs software and hardware requirements. Project management competencies of the managers is one of the most important and inevitable requirements to ensure the success of the projects in any industry. Inorder to clarify the requirements, many international and professional instituts have presented well-known frameworks to help the managers to shap...

On Forward-Secure Storage

We study a problem of secure data storage in a recently introduced Limited Communication Model. We propose a new cryptographic primitive that we call a Forward-Secure Storage (FSS). This primitive is a special kind of an encryption scheme, which produces huge (5 GB, say) ciphertexts, even from small plaintexts, and has the following non-standard security property. Suppose an adversary gets acce...