Embedded software today is pervasive: they can be found everywhere, from coffee makers and medical devices, to cars and aircraft. Embedded software today is also open and connected to the Internet, exposing them to external attacks that can cause its Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to be violated. Control-Flow Integrity is an important safety property of software, which ensures that the behavior o...

Liposome-encapsulated ciprofloxacin for inhalation (CFI) was investigated as a putative postexposure therapeutic for two strains of Francisella tularensis. The efficacies of oral ciprofloxacin and intranasally instilled CFI could not be distinguished in a mouse model of infection with the F. tularensis live vaccine strain (LVS), where a single dose of either formulation offered full protection ...

Control Flow Integrity (CFI) is a promising defense technique against code-reuse attacks. While proposals to use hardware features to support CFI already exist, there is still a growing demand for an architectural CFI support on commodity hardware. To tackle this problem, in this paper we demonstrate that the Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) recently introduced by Intel in the x86...

Attackers have evolved classic code-injection attacks, such as those caused by buffer overflows to sophisticated Turing-complete codereuse attacks. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is a defence mechanism to eliminate control-flow hijacking attacks caused by common memory errors. CFI relies on static analysis for the creation of a program’s controlflow graph (CFG), then at runtime CFI ensures that t...

AIMS The instantaneous response of the collateral circulation to isometric physical exercise in patients with non-occlusive coronary artery disease (CAD) is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty patients (age 59 +/- 9 years) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention because of stable CAD were included in the study. Collateral function was determined before and during the last minute of a ...

To assess a potential diagnostic and therapeutic biomarker for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), we sequenced the complement factor I gene (CFI) in 2266 individuals with AMD and 1400 without, identifying 231 individuals with rare genetic variants. We evaluated the functional impact by measuring circulating serum factor I (FI) protein levels in individuals with and without rare CFI variant...

This study aims to analyze the identity components of graduates from Faculty Forestry at Kasetsart University using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory analysis. Two sample groups were involved: Group 1 (400 individuals) for 2 (710 Both responded a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The results showed strong Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure .930 Bartlett's Test Sphericity with chi-s...

Choiceless Polynomial Time (CPT) is one of the most promising candidates in the search for a logic capturing Ptime. The question whether there is a logic that expresses exactly the polynomial-time computable properties of finite structures, which has been open for more than 30 years, is one of the most important and challenging problems in finite model theory. The strength of Choiceless Polynom...

Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) means that the execution of a program dynamically follows only certain paths, in accordance with a static policy. CFI can prevent attacks that, by exploiting buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities, attempt to control program behavior. This paper develops the basic theory that underlies two practical techniques for CFI enforcement, with precise formulations of hy...

OBJECTIVES We sought to evaluate whether coronary collateral flow is clinically relevant for future cardiac ischemic events. BACKGROUND The link between good collateral supply related to less myocardial damage and fewer cardiac events has not been established prospectively beyond doubt. METHODS In 403 patients with stable angina pectoris undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty...