● Security is built on top of three operational aspects of computer systems: confidentiality, integrity and availability ● (Distributed) Denial of Service (DoS) is an attack on the availability of data ● The denial-of-service effect is achieved by sending messages to the target that interfere with its operation, and make it crash, reboot, freeze or do useless work ● Motivation can be both polit...

In the present investigation, we deal with the reliability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two independent operating units, by incorporating the coverage factor. The probability of the successful detection, location and recovery from a failure is known as the coverage probability. The reboot delay and common cause shock failure are also considered. The times to failure of t...

In May 2012, a number of us listened spellbound as Janet Woodcock of the FDA announced at a meeting at the Brookings Institution that the agency would “reboot” their entire approach to antibiotic development (J. Woodcock, presented at an Expert Workshop on Facilitating Antibacterial Drug Development, 9 May 2012). She recognized that there is a public health crisis of antibiotic resistance that ...

A t the Museum of Sex in New York City, artifi cial-intelligence researcher David Levy projected a mock image on a screen of a smiling bride in a wedding dress holding hands with a short robot groom. " Why not marry a robot? Look at this happy couple, " he said to a chuckling crowd. When Levy was then asked whether anyone who would want to marry a robot was deluded, his face grew serious. " If ...

Automation ProTune, ProTune-PZT/OneNMR probe support Improved and unified support of ProTune and ProTune-PZT is provided. This includes automatically setting the RF phase with a reboot of the console. Other enhancements also include increased sensitivity of tuning data averaging; added phase correction for propagation delay in the probe; enhanced status reporting; better handling of exceptional...

“Reboot,” especially NoFap, promotes abstinence from masturbation and/or pornography to treat “pornography addiction,” an unrecognized diagnosis. While the intention of Reboot/NoFap is decrease distress, qualitative studies have consistently suggested that “Reboots” paradoxically cause more distress. The distress appears occur in response (1) goal, which recasts common sexual behaviors as perso...