The ability of pressure-driven leaks to provide an effective barrier against microbial ingress was investigated experimentally. The leak was simulated by circulating growth promoting media through a section of flexible tubing that had a 3/4-inch breach. The flow rate of the media was adjusted until the leak was barely visible; the leak rate was minimized to enhance the possibility of microbial ...

Promises are positioned centrally in the study of psychological contract breach and are argued to distinguish psychological contracts from related constructs, such as employee expectations. However, because the effects of promises and delivered inducements are confounded in most research, the role of promises in perceptions of, and reactions to, breach remains unclear. If promises are not an im...

As a severe threat in anonymized data publication, proximity breach is gaining increasing attention. Such breach occurs when an attacker learns with high confidence that the sensitive value of a targeted victim belongs to a set of semantically proximate values, even though not sure about the exact value. Focusing on tackling proximity breach under specific data models (e.g., categorical or nume...