A Business software alliance (BSA) commissioned study in 2006, found that $34 billion was lost due to piracy of software in 2005. The BSA and its members invest significant resources in educating users about copyright, its value, and enforcing copyright laws. However, does effort spent in educating users about the harmful aspects of piracy, and taking action against end-users using pirated soft...

Malware analysts use Machine Learning to aid in the fight against the unstemmed tide of new malware encountered on a daily, even hourly, basis. The marriage of these two fields (malware and machine learning) is a match made in heaven: malware contains inherent patterns and similarities due to code and code pattern reuse bymalware authors; machine learning operates by discovering inherent patter...

Northerin Ireland(i Comimilittee marks anl epoch in the historv of the fight against dlisease in this country. It can serve a useful purpose, and with the £26,000 made available by *Lord Nuffieldl for it to carrv on its work, much goo(o can enisue. But until a centr-al institutioni for long-terimi patients is establishedi in our mid(st, only a fringc of the problem can bie tackledl. It is hoped...

The McFadden Act of 1927 was one of the most hotly contested pieces of legislation in U.S. banking history, and its influence was felt over half a century later. This paper studies the Congressional voting behavior surrounding the Act’s passage. We find congressmen in districts in which landholdings were concentrated, and credit costlier were significantly more likely to oppose the act. The evi...

Radium has been described (I have forgotten by whom,) as the most potent element which has been yet discovered for the production of discontent in the medical profession. It was hailed at first as a panacea for all ills. Although it has not fulfilled the hopes based upon it by those early enthusiasts, it has opened up new fields in the treatment of disease, especially malignant disease, but eve...

European integration and European cooperation are already very high on the political agenda in most European countries. No matter what we think and feel about the EU, the European question is already deeply imbedded in our public life, in our media culture and in our everyday life. The strong emotional reactions for and against questions of European integration and culture and to the processes ...

Climate change can compromise the development of the territorial systems with rural vocation. Nevertheless, these last can influence, both positively than negatively, the factors that determine climate change. Starting from this dichotomous vision of the relationship between climate change and rural development, this study focuses on the role that Internet and the web marketing strategies can d...

Among vertebrates, winning a fight enhances the probability of future victories and vice versa and the role of post-conflict testosterone in mediating this 'winner effect' is widely accepted. In a series of staged fights of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) we tested both opponents' pre-fight and post-conflict testosterone, behavior and dominance status after returning to their social groups. ...

Fights among females are frequent, although less attention has been placed on them than on male fights. They arise when females compete for food, oviposition, mates, brooding sites, or access to resources which increase offspring survival. It has been shown that the outcome of female fights may be less predictable by asymmetries in resource holding power, than in male fights. Male roller beetle...