The Pacific Telecommunications Council is a forum and provides an opportunity for a variety of views and perspectives to be heard and to help us in educating each other. The formation of this new and small organization is an important historical process. The significance of the PTC is, in the first place, a recognition of the emergence of a specific region. Fifteen years ago no one in the U.S.A...

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is made up of 21 diverse Pacific Rim economies (table 1), including the United States, and represents a significant regional market for U.S. food and agriculture trade. In FY 1997, the APEC region accounted for more than 60 percent of U.S. agriculture and food exports and 50 percent of imports. Over the past 10 years, APEC has accounted for pra...

The hernagglutinin (HA) of six H5 influenza virus strains isolated from ducks in Japan and China in 1976 to 1996 were analyzed antigenically and genetically. Antigenic analysis using a panel of monoclonal antibodies revealed that the HA of H5 influenza viruses isolated from ducks are antigenically closely related to each other. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the isolates from ducks in Hok...

Heard Island is possibly the remotest speck of land on the Earth. It was only in the 18505 that the human race finally reached this most isolated of places. For the next 30 years gangs of hunters established themselves on the isolated beaches of Heard Island to slaughter the wildlife for their oil and furs and ship the products to markets half-way around the globe. The material culture remains ...

Starting from the 5.0 Lollipop release all Android processes must be run inside confined SEAndroid access control domains. As a result, Android device manufacturers were compelled to develop SEAndroid expertise in order to create policies for their device-specific components. In this paper we analyse SEAndroid policies from a number of 5.0 Lollipop devices on the market, and identify patterns o...

The past few decades have seen an increasing amount of debate concerning economic integration within East Asia1, with the backdrop of rapidly growing economies in Asia2. The economic integration in Asia has, it seems, progressed in terms of the evolution of the international division of labor amongst such countries as China, Japan, South Korea, and other ASEAN countries, along with increases in...

This text reports in detail how SEAL, a modeling framework for the economy based on individual agents and firms, works. Thus, it aims to be an usage manual for those wishing to use SEAL or SEAL’s results. As a reference work, theoretical and research studies are only cited. SEAL is thought as a Lab that enables the simulation of the economy with spatially bounded microeconomic-based computation...

We report on the design of Scream, a new software-efficient stream cipher, which was designedto be a “more secure SEAL”. Following SEAL, the design of Scream resembles in many ways ablock-cipher design. The new cipher is roughly as fast as SEAL, but we believe that it offers asignificantly higher security level. In the process of designing this cipher, we re-visit the SEALdesign...