As industrial plants become larger and more complex, an increasingly sophisticated alarm system is required to inform operators of potential malfunctions. With hundreds of different processes running at once, operators can be hard pushed to keep up with alarms, even under normal conditions. Without careful management, alarms can be ignored by even the most diligent of operators. Persistently ac...

Concern for animal welfare is nothing new. In 1959, two British scientists, Bill Russell and Rex Burch, famously presented an agenda now known as the three Rs for parsimonious use of animals in research: scientists would be diligent in searching to replace animal experiments with non-animal methods, refine experiments to eliminate suffering, and reduce the number of animals required in individu...

In a world where services are becoming economically more emphasized than products, those organizations seeking to remain in the products sphere survive due to differentiation alone. However, despite the billions of dollars spent on security products and services, the innovation and inventions behind these organizations remain dangerously exposed to theft, destruction, and modification. This pap...