A welcome but unintended consequence of recent state disclosure laws in the U.S. (most notably California SB 1386), has been a continuous stream of privacy breaches reported in the mass media. In this paper, we provide empirical analysis of disclosed breaches for the period of 2005-2006 to better understand what is happening in aggregate (overall patterns and trends) beyond the often sensationa...

Here we prove a probabilistic contraction mapping principle in Menger spaces. This is in line with research in fixed point theory using control functions which was initiated by Khan et al. [Bull. Austral. Math. Soc., 30(1984), 1-9] in metric spaces and extended by Choudhury et al. [Acta Mathematica Sinica, 24(8) (2008), 1379-1386] in probabilistic metric spaces. An example has also been constru...

This paper proposes a kind of generalized canonical projective vectors (GCPV), based on the framework of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) applying image recognition.Apart from canonical projective vectors (CPV), the process of obtaining GCPV contains the class information of samples, such that the combined features extracted according to the basis of GCPV can give a better classification pe...

INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer is caused by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). Several countries have implemented vaccination programs against HPV for teenage girls before sexual debut. However, recent clinical trials have demonstrated that vaccination of older women is highly effective as well. Accordingly, it has been suggested that these older women should also be offered vaccination. ...

nor immediate. Radcliffe College was not founded until 1879, 243 years into Harvard’s existence; it was was established as the “Harvard Annex” where women could be educated by Harvard faculty. Women were not allowed to attend Harvard classes with men until 1943. This separation of genders continued until 1977, when Harvard and Radcliffe signed a formal agreement to merge the two institutions, b...