Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks are still a big threat to the Internet. Several proposals for coping with the attacks have been made in the recent past, but neither of them are successful on themselves alone. In this paper, we present a system that helps in the defence in depth of a network from DDoS attacks. In addition to state-of-art active and passive security defences, we propose a h...

The successful operation of NATO missions requires the effective and secure sharing of information among coalition partners and external organizations, while avoiding the disclosure of sensitive information to unauthorized users. To resolve the conflict between confidentiality and availability in a dynamic coalition and network environment while being able to dynamically respond to changes in p...

Passive immunisation has been used in clinical practice since the end of last century, mainly for prophylaxis. Success of early treatments was marred by anaphylactic reactions and serum sickness because antibodies or antitoxins were not raised in humans. Recombination of gene segments during antibody synthesis means that specific antibodies for numerous antigens can be produced from a limited g...

The relationship between the respiratory system and the environment involves a complex dynamic interaction of genetic susceptibility, host defence and toxicity. The chance of an individual developing a respiratory disease is dependent on genetic susceptibility and subsequent hereditary risk factors, life-style risk factors and the amount and nature of the exposure that may be encountered in the...