Pragmatic E-Pistols

A Pragmatic Implementation of e-Transactions

Three-tier applications have nice properties, which make them scalable and manageable: clients are thin and servers are stateless. However, it is challenging to implement, or even de ne, end-to-end reliability for such applications. Furthermore, it is especially hard to make these applications reliable without violating their nice properties. In our previous work, we have identi ed e-transactio...

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Inner ear damage from toy cap pistols and fire-crackers.

Groups of guinea pigs comprising 7 animals in each group were exposed to 10, 50 or 100 exposures to fire-crackers or 10, 50 or 100 exposures to toy cap pistol shots. An additional group of 7 animals comprised the control material. The exposures were performed with 15-s intervals at 0.25 m distance for the toy cap pistol shots and at 0.8 m for the fire-crackers. The peak sound level at the ear w...

A pragmatic approach to the introduction of e-government

Adaption of processes inside a public administration are often seen as a necessary precondition for the introduction of mature e-Government services. Bureaucracies however, are specifically reluctant to change. Following the principles of agile software development and applying them to organizational aspects as well, this paper describes a pragmatic approach to the introduction of high quality ...

Pragmatic solutions to make E-mail Security work

The concepts for secure e-mail are available for quite some time. Nevertheless only few users have adopted them. The classical concept of end-to-end e-mail security provides maximum theoretical security. But the effort to implement and enforce it at every client has limited the spreading of security and therefore the overall benefit. Centralized e-mail security overcomes this problem. A gateway...