Abstract The digital landscape is characterized by the concentration of power in hands a few “gatekeepers.” Europe’s legal answer, Digital Markets Act (DMA), constitutes new approach. It aims at restricting this and ensuring “fairness contestability.” Traditionally, tools competition law were used to set basic rules how operate markets. shift different technique, regulatory law, prompts three q...

Interrupt processing can be a major bottleneck in the end-to-end performance of high-speed networks. The performance of Gigabit network end hosts or servers can be severely degraded due to interrupt overhead caused by heavy incoming traffic. Under heavy network traffic, the system performance will be negatively affected due to interrupt overhead caused by the incoming traffic. In particular, ex...

Computer platform peripherals such as network and management controller can be used to attack the host computer via direct memory access (DMA). DMA-based attacks launched from peripherals are capable of compromising the host without exploiting vulnerabilities present in the operating system running on the host. Therefore they present a highly critical threat to system security and integrity. Un...

Daidzein and its glycoside form daidzin, are known to have potential health benefits and are metabolized to O‑desmethylangolensin (O‑DMA) and equol following consumption. In the current study, the antioxidant activity and cytotoxicity of O‑DMA, equol, daidzein and daidzin was investigated and their effects on HepG2 human hepatocelluar carcinoma cells were compared. For cytotoxicity assays, lact...

Chronic ingestion of arsenic from drinking water is associated with the occurrence of skin cancer. To clarify the role of arsenic methylation capacity in the development of arsenic-associated skin lesions, an epidemiological case-control study was conducted in the southwestern region of Taiwan, in which 26 skin disorder patients were matched with control subjects. The objective of this study wa...

Checkpointing and Communication Library (CCL) is a recently developed software in support of optimistic parallel discrete event simulation on myrinet clusters. Beyond low latency message delivery functionalities, CCL also offers non-blocking checkpointing functionalities supported by a programmable PCI DMA engine on board of myrinet cards. CCL employs a re-synchronization functionality between ...

Ultrafast excited-state electron transfer has been monitored at the liquid/liquid interface for the first time. Second harmonic generation (SHG) pump/probe measurements monitored the electron transfer (ET) occurring between photoexcited coumarin 314 (C314) acceptor and dimethylaniline (DMA) donor molecules. In the treatment of this problem, translational diffusion of solute molecules can be neg...

SCOPE In their recently published Scientific Opinion on Arsenic in Food, the European Food Safety Authority concluded that a risk assessment for arsenosugars is currently not possible, largely because of the lack of relevant toxicological data. To address this issue, we carried out a toxicological in vitro characterization of two arsenosugars and six arsenosugar metabolites. METHODS AND RESUL...

Chronic ingestion of arsenic from drinking water is associated with the occurrence of skin cancer. To clarify the role of arsenic methylation capacity in the development of arsenic-associated skin lesions, an epidemiological case-control study was conducted in the southwestern region of Taiwan, in which 26 skin disorder patients were matched with control subjects. The objective of this study wa...