Mobile devices are more than just phones, they are a lifeline to the outdoor world, entertainment platform, GPS system, a little black book and a shopping and banking tool. What is not well known is that these devices are also gateways. Mobile devices can be used by a hacker as an access point into many other aspects of your digital life as well the lives of others in your network, making mobil...

This paper raises some of the issues related to large corporate e-mail systems. A brief discussion of whether or not current functionality suffices is given first. The result of this discussion is then related to the development of corporate e-mail systems. We show that a number of problems typically experienced stem from a lack of early strategic thinking. Subsequently, end-user problems of me...

The objectives of this study were to review the application and feasibility of providing screening, diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment for patients with ear discharge by setting a mobile hospital in rural India. The study was retrospective. The study involved collection of data from 1992 to 2005 from patients with ear diseases. The number of patients operated on for ear conditions and th...

Computational disaster mitigation and reduction research unit is aimed at developing advanced largescale numerical simulation of natural disasters such as an earthquake, tsunami and heavy rain, for Kobe City and other urban areas in Hyogo Prefecture. Besides for the construction of a sophisticated urban area model and the development of new numerical codes, the unit seeks to be a bridge between...

Oxygen is the lifeline of variety of organisms present on the earth. It is one of the basic elements that are involved in the formation of the functional unit of a living being. Various intricacies and mechanisms are there inside the organism that transports the oxygen to each and every cell of the body. Failure of oxygen to reach the brain leads to various kinds of neurodegenerative disease. H...

In this paper we introduce an aspect language that can define crosscutting e ects on a set of UML 2.0 sequence diagrams. The aspects and sequence diagrams are woven at the model level. By basing the weaving upon a formal trace model for sequence diagrams, we ensure that the weaving is semantics-based. We propose the arbitrary events symbol as a wildcard mechanism to express zero or more events ...

The paper will provide a summary of all lifelines performance in this strong earthquake. The paper will discuss the damage, emergency response, and recovery of electric power, telecommunication, transportation (roads and bridges), seaports, airports, water and wastewater, and their facilities. The impact as a result of the lifelines service interruption will be discussed; most important is the ...