The reasons for writing malware are changing – and so is the malware itself. Danny Bradbury reports on the development of a seedy commercial market. a 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Bill Gates’ time is up. At the end of January 2004, at the Davos forum, he said that within two years, spam would be a thing of the past. In reality, the problem is as rampant as ever. On its own, that would be mer...

story and novel writing have been a traditional legacy of india and they have been a part of indian culture. story writing has a pronounced past and an equally impeccable present. epics like the mahabharata and ramayana as well as fables like the panchtantra are acclaimed as the heritage of glorious works of literature across the world. persian, urdu and hindi languages are very closely linked ...

Frank de Glas discusses in his article, "Literature, 'In-House' Writers, and Processes of Success in Publishing," the fact that too many studies of twentieth-century publishing practices concentrate on individual case studies while neglecting more general patterns and that too little use is made of theoretical concepts developed in the sociology of cultural production. He argues that one of the...

Hydrogenation of free-standing silicene, the two-dimensional allotrope of silicon, is investigated in detail using first-principles methods and compared with the adsorption of H atoms on graphene. Similarly to graphene, chemisorption of a single H atom on silicene induces the formation of a semilocalized state around the adatom, a sharp peak in the density of states at the Fermi level which act...

Multilingual instructions generation has been the object of many studies recently, motivated by the increased need to produce multilingual manuals coupled with the cost of technical writing and translating. These studies concentrate on the automatic generation of instructions, leaving technical writers out of the loop. In many cases, however, it is not possible to dispense with human interventi...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2...