XYY chromosome constitution, for example. It ends with a fine summary and discussion of the ethical considerations in newborn screening for chromosome abnormalities, written by the well-known cytogeneticist John Hammerton. This book should be added to the shelf of every clinical geneticist and will in addition be of interest to pediatricians, child developmentalists, and child psychiatrists and...

Background One in three people over the age of 65 years experiences a fall every year in the UK. A significant factor contributing to the higher risk of falling in the elderly is attributed to an increase in postural sway which is a good indicator of static standing balance. Alterations in back shape with age have also been linked to an increase in postural sway. There is however a scarcity of ...

Processing passengers quickly and efficiently is one of the top goals for airport administrators, and major international gateways have the added challenge of processing passengers representing a variety of cultures and nations. People with diverse cultural backgrounds may interpret signage layouts differently with respect to symbols and text. Consequently, dedicated research into signage perce...

The paper presents a review on different technologies that exist today and how these technologies are used for home monitoring and automation. Recently we have seen that there are various demerits while using network based home automation. The paper considers these problems with their implementation and discusses on possible solutions through various other network technologies, indicating vario...

The detection of explosives and illicit material for the purposes of aviation security is an important area for preventing terrorism and smuggling. A number of di-erent methods of explosive detection have been developed in the past that can detect such material from a very small up to a very large quantity. For the purposes of aviation security, the checks are performed on passengers, their car...

Recently there has been significant interest in applications of gametheoretic analysis to analyze security resource allocation decisions. Two examples of deployed systems based on this line of research are the ARMOR system in use at the Los Angeles International Airport [20], and the IRIS system used by the Federal Air Marshals Service [25]. Game analysis always begins by developing a model of ...

Gas sensing systems for detection and identification of odorant molecules are of crucial importance in an increasing number of applications. Such applications include environmental monitoring, food quality assessment, airport security, and detection of hazardous gases. In this paper, we describe a gas sensing system for detecting and identifying volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and discuss th...

This paper provides an overview of the field of security metrics and discusses results of a survey of security experts on the topic. It describes a new framework for developing security metrics that focuses on effectiveness measures while maintaining measures of correctness. It introduces a view of security as a theoretical concept which encapsulates multiple aspects of a system. Viewing securi...

This paper presents a model of an airport apron that has been developed in order to determine a dynamical model for aircraft travel time in this area. This model is intended for future systems that will support automated routing and taxiing of aircraft in airport taxiways. The apron model proposed keeps into account the main issues related to the aircraft ground movements, such as aircraft conf...