Abstract iii Internet Technology is increasingly influencing the way we live and work. Homes having Internet access are becoming a norm everywhere. In the UK alone, there are nearly 8 million households with Internet access at home according to a new government figure. Internet access worldwide is growing at a rate of about 40 to 50 percent annually. Money investments in e-commerce by companies...

Since 1964, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) has been steadfastly committed to providing the highest quality medical care to children. Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, our regional pediatric healthcare network includes a state-of-the-art 279-bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, and a 54-bed hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo. CHOC...

Early Warning Intrusion Detection System (EWIS) is a distributed global scoped Internet threat monitoring system with the potential of detecting large scale malicious events as early as possible. The system’s architecture includes a network of distributed low-interaction sensors and a central server [1]. The sensors are small computing platforms [2] that by design are easy to deploy in a distri...

Previous studies have shown that saccadic eye responses but not manual responses were sensitive to the kind of warning signal used, with visual onsets producing longer saccadic latencies compared to visual offsets. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of distinct warning signals on manual latencies and to test the premise that the onset interference, in fact, does not occur...

Since we spend so much of our time at work it is there that the first warning signs of impending mental illness are likely to appear. So, ideally, the factory floor and the office should become the 'front line' of positive mental health.

Kenya displays large spatiotemporal diversity in its climate and ecology. It follows that malaria transmission will reflect this environmental heterogeneity in both space and time. In this article, we discuss how such heterogeneity, and its epidemiological consequences, should be considered in the development of early warning systems for malaria epidemics.

slowly evolving natural hazards such as agricultural drought. Famine early warning systems transform these data into actionable policy information, enabling humanitarian organizations to respond in a timely and appropriate manner. These life-saving responses are increasingly important: In 2006, one out of eight people did not have enough food to eat and 22 million more people became sufficientl...

Predation pressure is expected to drive visual warning signals to evolve toward conspicuousness. However, coloration of defended species varies tremendously and can at certain instances be considered as more camouflaged rather than conspicuous. Recent theoretical studies suggest that the variation in signal conspicuousness can be caused by variation (within or between species) in predators' wil...