We propose using spectral analysis to identify normal TCP traffic so that it will not be dropped or rate-limited in defense against denial of service (DoS) attacks. The approach can reduce false positives of attacker identification schemes and thus decrease the associated unnecessary slowdown or stoppage of legitimate traffic. For the spectral analysis, we use the number of packet arrivals of a...

This analysis breaks down the congestion levels experienced during specific parts of a wilderness canoe trip. By explicitly addressing the heterogeneity in preferences for congestion during a trip, we are able to determine the relative value canoeists place on solitude at different points of a trip. Our econometric model utilizes a random effects probit framework to efficiently estimate the wel...

From pre-trip planning through post-trip remembering, vacations unfold over long periods of time. Through the course of a trip the same travel information may be used repeatedly but with different levels of success and satisfaction. These experiential fluctuations over time were examined in a study of trip planners, who collected travel information from a chamber of commerce before leaving home...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease characterized by inflammatory cell infiltration, synovial inflammation, and cartilage destruction. Proliferative fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) play crucial roles in both propagation of inflammation and joint damage because of their production of great amount of proinflammatory cytokines and proteolytic enzymes. In this st...

Seabird tracking has become an ever more popular tool to aid environmental procedures such as the designation of marine protected areas and environmental impact assessments. However, samples used are usually small and little consideration is given to experimental design and sampling protocol. European shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis were tracked using GPS technology over three breeding seasons ...

An increased sensitivity of airport detectors, a growing number of isotopic tests, and globalization of the society have raised a number of false positive radioactive alarms at airports and public places. This paper presents two new cases of patients who triggered airport security alarms after receiving 740MBq of (131)I for non-toxic goitre and attempts to compare surprisingly limited literatur...

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new spatial interaction model for trip-chaining behavior that consists of a sequence of movements. Particularly, including the origin-destination constraints, we generalize the traditional entropy maximizing model to deal with trip-chaining behaviors. Traditional entropy models should be noted in terms of a theoretical derivation of the gravity model and its...