Because genomes are products of natural processes rather than " intelligent design, " all genomes contain functional and nonfunctional parts. The fraction of the genome that has no biological function is called " rubbish DNA. " Rubbish DNA consists of " junk DNA, " i.e., the fraction of the genome on which selection does not operate, and " garbage DNA, " i.e., sequences that lower the fitness o...

Kernel rootkits are among the most insidious threats to computer security today. By employing various code injection techniques, they are able to maintain an omnipotent presence in the compromised OS kernels. Existing preventive countermeasures typically employ virtualization technology as part of their solutions. However, they are still limited in either (1) requiring modifying the OS kernel s...

We describe the development of a new measure to assess guilt related to concern about harming others. The two versions of the Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire, a 45-item and 67-item version, include theoretically-based and clinically relevant categories of guilt: survivor guilt, separation/disloyalty guilt, omnipotent responsibility guilt, and self-hate guilt. Preliminary reliability and valid...

The Internet has undergone dramatic changes in the past 15 years, and now forms a global communication platform that billions of users rely on for their daily activities. While this transformation has brought tremendous benefits to society, it has also created new threats to online privacy, ranging from profiling of users for monetizing personal information to nearly omnipotent governmental sur...

Large-scale systems are part of a growing trend in distributed computing, and coordinating control of them is an increasing challenge. This paper presents a cooperative agent system that scales to one million or more nodes in which agents form coalitions to complete global task objectives. This approach uses the large-scale Command and Control (C2) capabilities of the Resource Clustered Chord (...

The rapid progress in the stem cell field, in particular in cell reprogramming, combined with certain recent observations from experimental embryology, has ignited a new discussion on stem cell terminology. The current use of terms describing stem cell potentiality is inconsistent and can be confusing, in particular the widely used term pluripotency and its distiction from totipotency. For cell...

Depending on context, we use the word “nature” to refer to many different sorts of things; living animals as well as non-biological matter may be relevant. For some people, e.g., in poetry and in the New-Age movement,1 nature is a living being with omnipotent qualities, e.g., the character of being a living totality with rationality. For others, nature is more tied to everyday life; biologists ...

This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. In this paper, I shall introduce issuantist views of hell and show that the basic formulations of this perspective do not provide an adeq...

Perfection is the enemy of the good. Most backoff schemes wait until a single contending candidate survives. But it is “the last mile,” getting contention down from few to one, which is usually the most costly: backoff systems which wait on some fixed k > 1 perform better than those that require perfection, i.e. k = 1. This paper asks what tasks are read-write solvable “k-concurrently ” i.e. ta...

The Covid-19 pandemic has melted all aspects of life, whether social, economic, educational, political and so on, religion become the highest theological awareness for humans to get closer creator. Therefore, purpose this research is answer some main issues that are subject discussion, about how Cikadut community in dealing with Covid-19? This a field research, qualitative methods as data colle...