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Draft Expiration Date : August

Classic IP traffic engineering considers a fixed IP layer topology. In this draft, we address the limitations imposed by such static network topology. This work is motivated by introducing dynamically provisioned links to improve static IP traffic engineering constraints, and leverage the freedom of provisioning links on demand. This draft introduces the concept of a closed-loop link provisioni...

TOMIN: Trustworthy Mobile Cash with Expiration-date Attached

Online mobile payment systems based on mobile cash provide privacy to customers and are feasible for real point of sale, virtual point of sale, and person-to-person mobile commerce scenarios. The merchant does not perform complex operations and the bank verifies the validity of the mobile cash before the merchant delivers the product. The bank must store the mobile cash spent in a database to p...

Sustainable Questions Determining the Expiration Date of Answers

Community question answering platforms have large repositories of previously answered questions. Reusing the answers for new questions is tempting. However, not all stored answers will still be relevant. We define a new and challenging problem concerning the sustainability of questions, and present metrics aimed at distinguishing between sustainable and non-sustainable questions. We find that a...

Drugs—The Parents' Dilemma

Chemical and Microbial Quality of Iranian Commercial Pasteurized Milk Samples at Their Expiration Date

Background: Milk can provide a good medium for growth and proliferation of various spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the chemical and microbial quality of Iranian commercial pasteurized milk samples at their expiration date. Methods: Hundred samples of pasteurized milk packaged in polyethylene pouches were randomly collected from local markets o...

Headache after exposure to ‘date-rape’ drugs

SUMMARY We report two patients who developed a prolonged featureless headache, they think after a drink was 'spiked'. We speculate that each was exposed to scopolamine, resulting in enhanced trigeminal release of vasodilator neuropeptides, including Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP), and thus the headache.