Synod News – November 1988

Washington University Record, November 3, 1988

With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988

In early November 1988 the Internet, a collection of networks consisting of 60,000 host computers implementing the TCP/IP protocol suite, was attacked by a virus, a program which broke into computers on the network and which spread from one machine to another. This paper is a detailed analysis of the virus program itself, as well as the reactions of the besieged Internet community. We discuss t...

Veracity and Velocity of Social Media Content during Breaking News: Analysis of November 2015 Paris Shootings

Social media sources are becoming increasingly important in journalism. Under breaking news deadlines semi-automated support for identification and verification of content is critical. We describe a large scale content-level analysis of over 6 million Twitter, You Tube and Instagram records covering the first 6 hours of the November 2015 Paris shootings. We ground our analysis by tracing how 5 ...

Trr 1988

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1988, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 63–66. The analytical procedures for all-way stop-controlled intersections in the 2000 edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) lack a model to estimate the 95th percentile queue length. This is considered a major shortc...

NMFS 70 November 1988 New and Innovative Advances in Biology / Engineering with Potential for Use in Aquaculture

Two molecular forms of salmon growth hormone, GH I and II, have been isolated from the pituitary glands of the chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta. A two-step procedure was employed for extraction of the salmon GHs under an alkaline (pH 9-10) condition, subsequent to acid acetone extraction. The GHs were then purified by isoelectric precipitation at pH 5.6, gel filtration on Sephadex G 100, and high...