This paper presents an application programming interface (API) for users to select and activate multime-dia services in a multivendor environment. This API hides the complexities and details of handling these complex services from the application developers. An abstract model has been deened that accommodates an extensive set of services involving communication and end-systems. The paper deenes...

Losses caused by malware are irrecoverable. Detection of malicious activity is the most challenge in the security of computing systems because current virulent executable are using sophisticated polymorphism and metamorphism techniques. It make difficult for analyzers to investigate their code statically. In this paper, we present a data mining approach to predict executable behavior. We provid...

In this paper we propose the use of Virtual Worlds as a 3D social interface for Electronic Institutions. It is shown how the two metaphors, Virtual Worlds and Electronic Institutions are combined into a single metaphor, 3D Electronic Institutions, while retaining the features and advantages of both. Its essence is to open Electronic Institutions to human users. The strong methodology and powerf...

Domain-based service names are similar to host-based service names, but using a domain name (not necessarily an Internet domain name) in addition to a hostname. The primary purpose of domain-based names is to provide a measure of protection to applications that utilize insecure service discovery protocols. This is achieved by providing a way to name clustered services after the "domain" which t...

Phishing is a web-based attack that uses social engineering techniques to exploit Internet users and acquire sensitive data. Most phishing attacks work by creating a fake version of the real site’s web interface to gain the user’s trust. Despite the fact that these phishing sites look identical or nearly identical to the real sites they imitate, user studies have shown that users ignore browser...

An ethically problematic clinical case is used to illustrate the potential importance of understanding clinical ethics in an interdisciplinary context. Whilst much has been written on ethics education for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, we argue that it is important that both healthcare professions and healthcare teams are able to look outside their own disciplinary ethos and som...

UNLABELLED Coconut crop improvement requires a number of biotechnology and bioinformatics tools. A database containing information on CG (coconut germplasm), CCI (coconut cultivar identification), CD (coconut disease), MIFSPC (microbial information systems in plantation crops) and VO (vegetable oils) is described. The database was developed using MySQL and PostgreSQL running in Linux operating ...

This study examined whether children’s reading rate, comprehension, and recall are affected by computer presentation of text. Participants were 60 grade five students, who each read two expository texts, one in a traditional print format and the other from a computer monitor, which used a common scrolling text interface. After reading each text, participants were asked to recall as much as they...

Strengthening the evidence-policy interface is a well-recognized health system challenge in both the developed and developing world. Brokerage inherent in hospital-to-hospital partnerships can boost relationships between "evidence" and "policy" communities and move developing countries towards evidence based patient safety policy. In particular, we use the experience of a global hospital partne...

The genomic sequences of a huge number of species have been determined. Typically, these genome sequences and the associated annotation data are accessed through Internet-based genome browsers that offer a user-friendly interface. Intelligent use of the data should expedite biological knowledge discovery. Such activity is collectively called data mining and involves queries that can be simple, ...