Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are widely recommended to provide security for otherwise unsecured industrial and SCADA communication protocols. VPNs provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability and are often considered secure. However, implementation vulnerabilities and protocol flaws have exposed VPN weaknesses in many deployments. In this work, we use probabilistic modeling to evalua...

Background Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) is the third most common cause of death in cardiovascular diseases. Despite this high significance, there is still controversy regarding the management of AAAs, as diameter is currently the only accepted parameter to assess risk of rupture. Elastin is the key protein for maintaining stability of the aortic wall. The aim of this study was t...

An unconditional and hitherto unquestioned basic requirement for integrity checking is that the data need to be consistent before the update, such that the success of a simplified test can guarantee the invariance of integrity after the update. We answer the question whether this consistency requirement can be relaxed with ”Yes, at least sometimes, and to some extent.”

Studies on the effectiveness of correctional treatment have widely failed to assess program integrity. This study examined the program integrity of EQUIP in 34 treatment groups of incarcerated offenders, using a new multiaspect program integrity instrument (MIPIE). The first aim of our study was to assess the reliability and validity of the MIPIE. The second aim was to describe the practical ap...

This is a paper to the panel “Conceptualizing the workpractice context of IS” at the ALOIS*2006 conference. It is a position statement concerning workpractice theory as a practical theory. Practice theory is concerned with workpractices and as such an example of “referential pragmatism”. A practical theory intends to be of value to practices and such a theory is seen as an example of “functiona...

Integrity Maintenance is considered one of the major application elds of rule triggering systems (RTSs). In the case of a given integrity constraint being violated by a database transition these systems trigger repairing actions. However, it has be shown that for any set of constraints there exist unrepairable transitions, which depend on the closure of the constraint set. This implies that int...

Oenococcus oeni is the main microorganism that undergoes malolactic fermentation (MLF) in winemaking industry due to its excellent adaptability harsh wine environments. The start of MLF often delayed or even fails, and low pH appears be a crucial parameter. To study function trxA gene acid stress, plasmid containing O. SD-2a was heterologously expressed Lactiplantibacillus plantarum WCFS1. reco...

materials exhibit significant creep behavior at temperatures above 40% of their absolute melt temperature. lead, tin and their alloys are such materials which experience significant creep behavior in room temperature. one of the most important applications of the tin-lead alloys is soldering electronic circuits in electronic industry, and for lead are isolation walls and wet batteries. room tem...