Nation-state cyberattacks, and particularly Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), have rocketed in the last years. Their use may be aligned with nation-state geopolitical economic (GPE) interests, which are key for underlying international relations (IRs). However, interdependency between APTs GPE (and thus IRs) has not been characterized yet it could a steppingstone an enhanced cyberthreat intel...

The first half of this document is a crash-bang-wallop summary of the statistical material that I would present in a comprehensive second undergraduate course on statistical inference at a leading UK university. It covers both Frequentist and Bayesian approaches to estimation and hypothesis testing in some generality, with a linking section on different statistical interpretations of probabilit...

Many cities in China have built an advanced public transportation system (APTS) recent years. These systems cannot carry out automated dispatches but rely on the dispatcher to ensure normal operations. Based theory of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, this study created a hierarchical evaluation model evaluate work level dispatcher. Firstly, was established based data line complexity and dispatch...

Abstract This article reviews the literature surrounding growing use of Automated Paraphrasing Tools (APTs) as a threat to educational integrity. In academia there is technological arms-race occurring between development tools and techniques which facilitate violations principles integrity, including text-based plagiarism, methods for identifying such behaviors. APTs are part this race, they ra...

Milankovitch climate cyclicity and magnetic polarity stratigraphy are being successfully combined as a powerful geochronometer in the astronomical polarity timescale (APTS). The APTS for 0–5.23 Ma has been rapidly accepted as the definitive chronology for the Pliocene and Pleistocene against which even high precision radiometric dating is now calibrated. Extensions of astronomical calibration t...

BACKGROUND Stem cell transplantation has been investigated for repairing damaged tissues in various injury models. Monitoring the safety and fate of transplanted cells using noninvasive methods is important to advance this technique into clinical applications. METHODS In this study, lower-limb ischemia models were generated in nude mice by femoral artery ligation. As negative-contrast agents,...

In this work, silica nanofibers (SNFs) were prepared by an electrospinning method and modified with poly-d-lysine (PDL) or (3-aminopropyl) trimethoxysilane (APTS) making biocompatible and degradable substrates for neuronal growth. The as-prepared SNF, modified SNF-PDL, and SNF-APTS were evaluated using scanning electron microscopy, nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms, contact angle measure...

The Abdominal Pressure Twin Sensors (APTS) for Q3 and Q6 dummies are composed of soft polyurethane bladders filled with fluid and equipped with pressure sensors. Implanted within the abdominal insert of child dummies, they can be used to detect abdominal loading due to the belt during frontal collisions. In the present study - which is part of the EC funded CASPER project - two versions of APTS...

As a new type of cyber attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs) pose a severe threat to modern society. This paper focuses on the assessment of the risk of APTs. Based on a dynamic model characterizing the time evolution of the state of an organization, the organization’s risk is defined as its maximum possible expected loss, and the risk assessment problem is modeled as a constrained optimi...

Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) of superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) have been explored for different kinds of applications in biomedicine, mechanics, and information. Here, we explored the synthetic SPIO NPs as an adjuvant on antigen cross-presentation ability by enhancing the intracellular delivery of antigens into antigen presenting cells (APCs). Particles with different chemical modification...