Privacy and security concerns have adversely affected the usefulness of many types of techniques that leverage information gathered from deployed applications. To address this issue, we present a new approach for automatically sanitizing failure-inducing inputs. Given an input I that causes a failure f , our technique can generate a sanitized input I ′ that is different from I but still causes ...

Privacy preservation in data mining demands protecting both input and output privacy. The former refers to sanitizing the raw data itself before performing mining. The latter refers to preventing the mining output (model/pattern) from malicious pattern-based inference attacks. The preservation of input privacy does not necessarily lead to that of output privacy. This work studies the problem of...

Social insects defend their own colonies and some species also protect their mutualist partners. In mutualisms with aphids, ants typically feed on honeydew produced by aphids and, in turn guard and shelter aphid colonies from insect natural enemies. Here we report that Formica podzolica ants tending milkweed aphids, Aphis asclepiadis, protect aphid colonies from lethal fungal infections caused ...

A reflection is made, from an interpretative perspective, on the historical evolution of health care in the West. It starts from the moment that this became a way to intervene the sick and an instrument for healing diseases, focusing on original documents and written sources which account for results of historical research, which range from XV century until today. To do this, it tries to unders...

Deregulated redox metabolism in cancer leads to oxidative damage to cellular components including deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs). Targeting dNTP pool sanitizing enzymes, such as MTH1, is a highly promising anticancer strategy. The MTH2 protein, known as NUDT15, is described as the second human homologue of bacterial MutT with 8-oxo-dGTPase activity. We present the first NUDT15 crysta...

This paper explores a promising interface between natural language processing (NLP) and information assurance and security (IAS). More specifically, it is devoted to possible applications of the accumulated considerable resources in NLP to IAS. The paper is of a mixed theoretical and empirical nature. Of the four possible venues of applications, (i) memorizing randomly generated passwords with ...

The parameters of the microclimate barn under untethered method keeping cows in spring were studied. It was found that temperature on average 8.8±1.34 °C, relative humidity and air velocity compared rooms within limits hygienic standards. Microbiological indicators bacterial contamination correspond to upper standards amounted 116.64±6.32 CFU/sс3. technological equipment averaged 119.33±14.71 t...

Hydrosols have been increasingly used in the food industries as drinks and ingredients for seasoning flavoring. Research has shown they antimicrobial, antioxidative anti-inflammatory effects therefore potential preservative agents sanitizing tools industry. The composition analysis of hydrosols is commonly conducted using extraction with organic solvents. However, some hydrophilic compounds are...