This paper discusses a way to communicate without relying on fixed infrastructure at some central hub. This can be useful for bootstrapping loosely connected peer-topeer systems, as well as for circumventing egregious policy-based blocking (e.g., for censorship purposes). Our techniques leverage the caching and aging properties of DNS records to create a covert channel of sorts that can be used...

introduction cryptococcosis is an opportunistic fungal infection mostly in immunocompromised patients. here we present the immunocompetent case with crypotoccosis. case presentation a 60-year-old man without any history of immunodeficiency or major risk factor of fungal infection, referred to the emergency department with systemic symptoms and low back pain. the patient’s condition gradually de...

Figures 2A, 3A, and 4A each included an incorrect label for the Cy5 dye (red). The correct versions appear here. Experimental Procedures accurately describes the Cy3/Cy5 labeling strategy in all three cases. The data and conclusions of the work remain unchanged.

Unlike many other types of urban micro‐publics, allotment gardens provide a spatial opportunity for everyday social contact and encounters between heterogeneous user groups who share common interest. While these micro‐publics have an evidenced capacity generating capital, scholars questioned the extent to which capital accessed within garden transcends its physical boundary—and thus relevance m...