1 Department of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Warsaw 02-097, Poland. This work was supported in part by The Polish Sciences Foundation under grant NN201006933. 2 Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3368, USA 3 Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro 22460-320, Brazil 4 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic In...

Fuzzy measures (FMs) encode the worth (or importance) of different subsets of information sources in the fuzzy integral (FI). It is well-known that the Choquet FI (CFI) often reduces to an elementary aggregation operator for different selections of the FM. However, FMs are often learned from training data or they are derived from the densities (worth of just the singletons). In these situations...

We report the complete genome of a clinical strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa , CMC-097, which was isolated from ventilator-associated pneumonia patient with chronic infection. Illumina sequence reads were assembled using Geneious to yield 7,044,064-bp circular chromosome containing carbapenem resistance integron, In 2020 .

In this paper, we did a comprehensive survey on the evolution of defense in Linux softwares. Our survey mainly focused on Stack Canary, CFI and ASLR. In order to measure the coverage of Stack Canary, we collected more than 1 million package data. Besides, we also found that ASLR is an operating system behavior, and CFI was still not widely implemented in production compilers. Beyond the survey,...

Applications written in low-level languages without type or memory safety are prone to memory corruption. Attackers gain code execution capabilities through memory corruption despite all currently deployed defenses. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is a promising security property that restricts indirect control-flow transfers to a static set of well-known locations. We present Lockdown, a modular,...

This study explored the effects of oxytocin on Compassion Focused Imagery (CFI), that is, imagining another "mind" being deeply compassionate to oneself, and the interaction of these effects with self-criticism and feeling socially safe with others. Forty-four healthy participants (29 men and 15 women) completed self-report measures of self-criticism, attachment style, and social safeness befor...

BACKGROUND Experimentally, activated macrophages have been documented to induce vascular proliferation. METHODS AND RESULTS In 21 patients (age 74+/-9 years) with extensive coronary artery disease not eligible for coronary artery bypass surgery, the effect of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF, Molgramostim) on quantitatively assessed collateral flow was tested in a rand...

For an ad hoc IEEE 802.11 WLAN we investigate how the stations' incentives to launch a backoff attack i.e., to configure small minimum and maximum CSMA/CA contention windows in pursuit of a larger-than-fair bandwidth share, affect a proposed capacity-fairness index (CFI). We link CFI to the network size, "power awareness," a station's perception of the other stations' susceptibility to incentiv...