Continuously changing nature of technological environment has been enforcing to revise the process of information security risk analysis accordingly. A number of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis methods have been proposed by researchers and vendors. The purpose of these methods is to analyze today's information security risks properly. Some of these methods are supported by a software...

This paper describes our retrieval system participated in the Patent Retrieval Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop. The main task was an associative patent retrieval task, in which a patent application including a target claim is used to search documents that can invalidate the demand in the claim. Our system can be characterized by the structure analysis for both target claim and entire applicat...

Construction Projects are being implemented under different contract systems in the Midwest. Negotiated design-build has been a popular contract system in recent years. It provides various advantages through entailing the contractor to be responsible for the whole project. However, design-build turns out to be risky system for both owners and contractors unless the risks are identified, quantif...

bioinert ceramics, like alumina and zirconia are used mainly for replacements of bones, hip joints and for dental implants. partially stabilized zirconia ceramics (psz or tzp with 3 mol.% or 5 wt.% y2o3), appear as perspective bioinert ceramics because of their high strength and corrosion resistance. in order to fabricate complex shapes, it is essential to use a near net shape processing like g...

Abstract Hailstone growth results in a variety of hailstone shapes. These shapes hold implications for modeling hail processes, fall behaviors including speeds, and remote sensing signatures hail. This study is an in-depth analysis natural shapes, using large dataset hailstones collected the field over 6-yr period. data come from manual measurements with digital calipers three-dimensional infra...

The authors have been developing a glove based input device, called “Stringlove”, recognizing finger shapes by adapting for several shapes pointing an angle of each finger joint. A research group reports on the sign language linguistics features to distinguish finger shapes, and advance to make it practicable to engineering. This paper mentions that the method of recognition of finger shapes wa...