Louisiana Tech University has recently developed a curriculum (NASA-Threads) that integrates engineering, mathematics, and physics. The curriculum, which targets junior and senior high school students, uses hands-on projects that develop student ability to solve realistic multiple-step problems and bring excitement into the classroom. NASA-Threads integrates NASA applications, fundamentals, tec...

At present it is very difficult to trace the identity of spammers who use identity concealment techniques. It is difficult to determine the identity of the spammer by just analysing the electronic trail. This paper will look at standard email tracing techniques and how email senders try and hide their electronic trail. The identity concealing techniques that that are discussed are: Spoofing, Bo...

Diese Arbeit präsentiert den intelligenten Gehhilferoboter Care-O-bot. CareO-bot ist der Prototyp eines multifunktionalen Heimund Pflegeassistenten, konzipiert zur Benutzung von älteren Personen. Der Roboter soll es diesen Personen ermöglichen, trotz verschiedener Gebrechen weiterhin eigenständig in ihrer heimischen Umgebung wohnen zu können. Um den Umgang mit der intelligenten Gehhilfe möglich...

Recently, a backgammon bot named Palamedes won the first prize in backgammon at the 16 Computer Olympiad. Palamedes is an ongoing work aimed at developing intelligent bots to play a variety of popular backgammon variants. Currently, the Greek variants Portes, Plakoto and Fevga are supported. A different neural network has been designed, trained and evaluated for each one of these variants. This...

In the past, online social networks (OSN) like Facebook and Twitter became powerful instruments for communication and networking. Unfortunately, they have also become a welcome target for socialbot attacks. Therefore, a deep understanding of the nature of such attacks is important to protect the Eco-System of OSNs. In this extended abstract we propose a categorization scheme of social bot attac...

Epithelial borderline ovarian tumors (BOT) are distinctive from benign tumors and carcinoma. They occur in younger women more often than carcinoma, and there is some difficulty making correct diagnosis of BOT. Two subtypes of BOT, serous and mucinous borderline tumor have different characteristics and very different clinical behavior. Serous borderline tumor (SBT) with micropapillary pattern sh...

Borderline epithelial ovarian tumours (BOT) represent 15-20% of all non-benign ovarian epithelial neoplasms. Compared to malignant ovarian tumours, they usually present at a younger age and carry a far superior prognosis. Fertility-conserving surgery is an important treatment option for patients with BOT. Ultrasound and CT are both widely available and play roles in the initial investigation an...

A botnet is a collection of compromised systems. A botnet has a bot-master which identifies the vulnerable systems and compromises them by injecting a malware code and remotely controls all these compromised systems using Command-andControl Infrastructure. These compromised systems are bots. Thus, a botnet is a network of bots. These bots receive commands from bot-master to perform various mali...

Data mining applications are composed of computing-intensive processing tasks, which are natural candidates for execution on high performance, high throughput platforms such as PC clusters and computational grids. Besides, some data-mining algorithms can be implemented as Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications, which are composed of parallel, independent tasks. Due to its own nature, the adaptation of...