Polyandry is widespread across animal taxa, and subjects males to intense post-copulatory sexual selection which favors adaptations that enhance a male’s paternity success, either by decreasing the risk of sperm competition and/or by increasing the competitiveness of the ejaculate. Copulatory plugs deposited by males are thought to have evolved in the context of sperm competition. However, expe...

Digital documents often do not exist in isolation but are implicitly or explicitly linked to parts of other documents. Nevertheless, most existing document formats only support links to web resources but not to parts of third-party documents. An open cross-document link service should address the multitude of existing document formats and be extensible to support emerging document formats and m...

In spite of existence of many standard security mechanisms for ensuring secure eCommerce business, users still fall prey for online attacks. One such simple but powerful attack is ‘Phishing’. Phishing is the most alarming threat in the e-Commerce world and effective anti-phishing technique is the need of the hour. This paper focuses on a novel anti-phishing browser plug-in which uses informatio...

Plug flow in microcapillaries or microchannels offers significant advantages for the development of microfluidic applications and recently triggers many interests and studies. Recirculation is formed within liquid plugs due to the presence of interfaces. This paper presents an analytical model to investigate the recirculation flow and the flow resistance in microcapillaries with circular cross ...

The B-method, as well as its offspring Event-B, are both formal methods used for the development of critical computer systems whose correctness has to be formally established. Event-B now spurs the RODIN platform, which is based on Eclipse and can be extended via plug-ins. In this paper, we present two such plug-ins; one for animation and one for interactive proof support, called a disprover. B...

UML is the main modeling language used in model-driven development (MDD). In many cases, UMLbased modeling systems need to be extended by plug-ins to support different modeling approaches. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for model-driven development of plug-ins, which enables reuse of UML modeling capabilities for defining executable plug-in models. This approach suggests that UML-ba...