This paper offers an overview of the current threats to mobile system data confidentiality, availability and integrity. It will present the data-centric security model as a key enabler for secure personal and business use of mobile devices. Finally, the incident handling model will be applied against mobile device security events in order to assess the model against this relatively new threat v...

A cytobrush was compared with a cotton-tipped aluminium shafted swab for the collection of 2024 paired endocervical specimens for the culture of Chlamydia trachomatis. There was no significant advantage with the use of either device with respect to the number of positive specimens detected or the number of inclusions present in positive specimens. However, the use of cytobrushes resulted in an ...

We describe a dialogue-handling module used as an interface between a vocal terminal and a taskoriented device (for instance : a robot manipulating blocks). This module has been specially designed to be implanted on a single board using microprocessor, and inserted into the vocal terminal which already comprises a speech recognition board and a synthesis board. The entire vocal system is at pre...

Fault Tolerance is a configuration that prevent a computer or network device from failing in the event of unexpected problem or error such as hardware failure, link failure, unauthorized access, variations in the configuration of different systems and system running out of memory or disk space. The integration of fault tolerance measures with scheduling gains much importance. Workflow managemen...

Background: The present study aimed to assess handling procedures and their effects on the sleep-wake time in the preterm infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Methods: This observationalcross-sectional study was conducted in the NICU ofVali-e-Asr Teaching Hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran in 2016. Sample population consisted of 15...

Many definitions have been suggested for what we call a robot. The word may conjure up various levels of technological sophistication, ranging from a simple material handling device to a humanoid. The image of robots varies widely with researchers, engineers, and robot manufacturers. However, it is widely accepted that today's robots used in industries originated in the invention of a programme...

This paper addresses the Single Sign On (SSO) issue in personal Area Networks (PANs) comprising of heterogeneous handheld devices. Architectures for service SSO solutions at the enterprise level are already in the market and some standards for such solutions exist. In this paper however we introduce the notion of device level SSO. By device SSO, we refer to the process of logging on to one devi...