everal years ago, online 3D technology was expected to change the face of the Web. Industry observers said the technology would transform the Web from a static two-dimensional world into a dynamic, interactive 3D world ideal for commercial applications. However, the technology never found a killer app, never caught on with many users, and thus never became commercially successful, outside of vi...

Chrome tanning industry is dominated globally owing to its high versatility in quality leather production. However, Environmental impacts of chromium have shifted the interest present study chrome-free options. Vegetable tannins been proven be environmentally safe producing good with comparable properties as that chrome tanned leather. As such, scarcity vegetable tannin supply demands character...

We perform an empirical study to better understand two well-known vulnerability rewards programs, or VRPs, which software vendors use to encourage community participation in finding and responsibly disclosing software vulnerabilities. The Chrome VRP has cost approximately $580,000 over 3 years and has resulted in 501 bounties paid for the identification of security vulnerabilities. The Firefox ...

A sensitive and reproducible method for the direct spectrophotometric determination of zirconium is reported. The method is based on zirconium forms a stable bluish violet colour complex with Chrome Azurol S (CAS) which has maximum absorption at 598 nm at pH 4.2. The complex obeys Beer’s law in the concentration range of 1-7 μg/mL. Detection limit, molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity w...