Public damage abatement and compensation programs may be used to alter private incentives for damage abatement and habitat provision. A model is developed that explains the economic logic behind prevalent characteristics of public wildlife damage programs. The model is supported with an examination of a broad cross-section of wildlife agency policy and law. The model can be used by wildlife man...

was more esteemed during life, or more regretted on his death in 1833 (from influenza, then so prevalent), than this truly good man, the leading features of whose character are well pourtrayed in a sketch of his career drawn up by his distinguished son-in-law, Dr. Richard Bright, in-^e twelfth volume of the Medical Gazette. The rare honour ofS*k. statue?one of the best works of the late Mr. Beh...

The aim of this paper is to study the effects of a corrugated wall on the behaviour of propagating rays. Different types of corrugation are considered, using different distributions of the corrugation heights: white Gaussian, power law, self-affine perturbation. In phase space, a prevalent chaotic behaviour of rays, and the presence of a lot of caustics, are observed. These results entail that ...

Modern Online Social Networks (OSNs) have many similarities. They use social ties, promote sharing and users get to vote or like content. Even their underlying structure is similar, tightly knit communities, power law distributions and the flow of information from stronger nodes to weaker, are prevalent in almost every network. Users spend time to maintain their online profile and therefore fil...

Necessity has driven the evolution of microprocessor design practices and CAD tools at Intel Corporation, as the transistor count has grown by a factor of about 4X each processor generation. In order to cope with the complexity of design tasks, Intel's engineers were early adopters and adapters of innovative CAD research from universities. A unique partnership with Alberto’s group in U.C. Berke...

As digital devices become more prevalent in our society, evidence relating to crimes will be more frequently found on digital devices. Computer forensics is becoming a vital tool required by law enforcement for providing data recovery of key evidence. File carving is a powerful approach for recovering data especially when file system metadata information is unavailable. Many file carving approa...

Lexington Massachusetts This page intentionally left blank. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The goal of this work is to introduce meaningful security metrics that motivate eective improvements in network security. We present a methodology for directly deriving security metrics from realistic mathematical models of adversarial behaviors and systems and also a maturity model to guide the adoption and use of th...

this paper is a comparative study of legal aspect of islamic securities (sukuk), between iran (as shia fiqh) malaysia (as the first country that issued sukuk based on sonni fiqh) and england (as a chief western country in sukuk). results indicate many similarities between iran and malaysia rules despite specifications with england rules. different in definition of contract, asset valuation, lim...