Recent and upcoming CSMA/CA based MAC protocols for wireless LANs offer block-acknowledgement or aggregated frame exchange in order to provide high data rate for multimedia and real-time data, while all of them avoid collisions by exclusive use of wireless medium that block neighboring nodes of both sender and receiver from participating in concurrent transmission; and thus downgrade medium uti...

As implementations of shared memory multiprocessors become more complicated, hardware faults will increasingly cause errors that are difficult or impossible to detect with low-level, localized mechanisms. In this paper, we argue for dynamic verification (i.e., on-the-fly checking) of end-to-end, system-wide invariants in shared memory multiprocessors. We develop two invariant checkers based on ...

The Aromascan A32S conducting polymer electronic nose was evaluated for the capability of detecting the presence of off-flavor malodorous compounds in catfish meat fillets to assess meat quality for potential merchantability. Sensor array outputs indicated that the aroma profiles of good-flavor (on-flavor) and off-flavor fillets were strongly different as confirmed by a Principal Component Anal...

The automatic recognition of children’s speech is well known to be a challenge, and so is the influence of affect that is believed to downgrade performance of a speech recogniser. In this contribution, we investigate the combination of these phenomena: extensive test-runs are carried out for 1k vocabulary continuous speech recognition on spontaneous angry, motherese and emphatic children’s spee...

Multilevel security policies aim at only confidentiality assurance, with less consideration on integrity assurance and weakness in expressing channel control policies. Besides, the trusted subjects it introduces to handle the information flow “downgrade” have many security flaws. Moreover, increasing diversity of the computing environments results in various security requirements. However, curr...

The growing data demonstrate that Klotho (KL) is deeply implicated in the diabetic nephropathy. The circulating form of α-Klotho (α-KL) named as soluble KL functions as an endocrine substance that exerts heterogeneous actions including the modulation of renal function upon hyperglycemia, regulation of cell compensation, downgrade inflammation and anti-oxidation. There is a positive correlation ...

The use of WhatsApp for actions that lead to unlawful acts is a serious matter needs be proven in court. Android and the messaging application continue update their features security provide maximum service protection its users, such as database encryption using crypt14. With crypt14 on database, investigations digital evidence against Electronic Evidence (BBE) require an acquisition extraction...

Downgrade-triggered termination clause is a recent innovation in credit risk management to control counterparty credit risk. It allows one party of an over-the-counter derivative to close off its position at marked-to-market price when the other party’s credit rating downgrades to an agreed alarming level. Although the default risk is significantly reduced, the non-defaulting party may still su...