Protecting Organs Through Dietary Adjustments

Dietary Capsaicin Protects Cardiometabolic Organs from Dysfunction

Chili peppers have a long history of use for flavoring, coloring, and preserving food, as well as for medical purposes. The increased use of chili peppers in food is very popular worldwide. Capsaicin is the major pungent bioactivator in chili peppers. The beneficial effects of capsaicin on cardiovascular function and metabolic regulation have been validated in experimental and population studie...

Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing

Mobile code systems provide a exible and powerful platform to build distributed applications in an Internet scale, but they rise strong requirements from the security point of view. Security issues include authentication of the di erent remote parties involved and protection of the execution environments from malicious agents. Nonetheless, the most di cult task is to protect roaming agents from...

Protecting Minorities through the Average Voting Rule∗

Properties of an average voting rule the outcome being some weighted average of votes are investigated, with particular attention to its ability to protect minorities. The unique average voting outcome is characterized with a median formula which depends on the voters’ preferred allocations and some parameters constructed from the voters’ weights. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions ...

Protecting C++ Dynamic Dispatch Through VTable Interleaving

With new defenses against traditional control-flow attacks like stack buffer overflows, attackers are increasingly using more advanced mechanisms to take control of execution. One common such attack is vtable hijacking, in which the attacker exploits bugs in C++ programs to overwrite pointers to the virtual method tables (vtables) of objects. We present a novel defense against this attack. The ...

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