Security competitions have become a popular way to foster security education by creating a competitive environment in which participants go beyond the effort usually required in traditional security courses. Live security competitions (also called “Capture The Flag,” or CTF competitions) are particularly well-suited to support handson experience, as they usually have both an attack and a defens...

BACKGROUND Flag (touch or intramural) football is a popular sport among the U.S. Air Force (USAF) active duty population and causes a substantial number of lost-workday injuries. The purpose of this study is to describe the mechanisms of flag-football injuries to better identify effective countermeasures. METHODS The data were derived from safety reports obtained from the USAF Ground Safety A...

We investigate a special class of polytopes, the zonotopes, and show that their flag f -vectors satisfy only the affine relations fulfilled by flag f -vectors of all polytopes. In addition, we determine the lattice spanned by flag f -vectors of zonotopes. By duality, these results apply as well to the flag f -vectors of central arrangements of hyperplanes.

The FLAG peptide, AspTyrLysAspAspAspAspLys, has been used as an epitope tag in a variety of cell types. The modification of the cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter containing vector, pCMV5, to create two transient expression vectors designed for secretion and intracellular expression of FLAG-fusion proteins in mammalian cells is described. As a functional test, the bacterial alkaline phosphatase gen...

The flag Whitney numbers (also referred to as the flag f -numbers) of a geometric lattice count the number of chains of the lattice with elements having specified ranks. We give a collection of inequalities which imply all the linear inequalities satisfied by the flag Whitney numbers of rank 3 geometric lattices. We further describe the smallest closed convex set containing the flag Whitney num...

The broadcast flag is supposed to protect digital broadcast content from unauthorized distribution. This paper critically examines the broadcast flag as a security mechanism in the context of digital content control. A threat model analysis from the computer security field is presented as a framework for evaluating the flag. The model identifies stated and potential goals of the flag’s proponen...

The flag f-vectors of three-colored complexes are characterized. This also characterizes the flag h-vectors of balanced Cohen-Macaulay complexes of dimension two, as well as the flag h-vectors of balanced shellable complexes of dimension two.

In this paper we study some rigidity properties for Finsler manifolds of sectional flag curvature. We prove that any Landsberg manifold of non-zero sectional flag curvature and any closed Finsler manifold of negative sectional flag curvature must be Riemannian.

The notion of holomorphic bi-flag curvature for a complex Finsler space (M, F ) is defined with respect to the Chern complex linear connection on the pull-back tangent bundle. By means of holomorphic curvature and holomorphic flag curvature of a complex Finsler space, a special approach is devoted to obtain the characterizations of the holomorphic bi-flag curvature. For the class of generalized...