BACKGROUND Lower limb ulcers are a serious medical and socioeconomic problem throughout the world. One type of chronic wound of the lower extremities is the venous ulcer. Therapeutic methods for treating venous ulcer include the use of the Unna boot. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of the customized Unna boot in the treatment of venous ulcers and to monitor the subsequent development...

The authors conducted a study of recidivism of 480 male graduates, aged 16 to 40 years, of a boot camp in the South. Discriminant analysis was used to determine what factors discriminated between three outcomes in a 3-year follow-up: (a) nonrecidivists, (b) recidivists who had committed additional crime after graduation from boot camp, and (c) parole violators. Analyses indicated that present a...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has implemented a program to build the first instance of a complete cognitive agent. The program, called Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL), is expected to yield new cognitive technology of significant value not only to the military, but also to the business and academic sectors. (Gunning 2004) With traditional engineering projects, ev...

We discuss five attack strategies against BitLocker, which target the way BitLocker is using the TPM sealing mechanism. BitLocker is a disk encryption feature included in some versions of Microsoft Windows. It represents a state-of-the-art design, enhanced with TPM support for improved security. We show that, under certain assumptions, a dedicated attacker can circumvent the protection and brea...

A novel test methodology is established to evaluate the strain relief boot on optoelectronic components and optical fiber components by measuring the fiber bend radius in side pull test. The technique is developed for qualifying the boot design rather than for lot testing. The criterion and process are provided.

Toward the general goal ofpreventing ankle injuries in snowboarding accidents, the E. Wang objective of this project to develop a dynamic system model of a snowboarder and Assistant Professor, assess which model parameters, particularly those attributed to the boot, most Department of Mechanical Engineering, strongly influenced ankle deflections during a forward fall. To satisfy this objective,...

The aim of the present study was the examination of the boot swab sampling technique for the collection of environmental material in order to identify Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP)-infected herds. Eight dairy herds were included into the study. Four of them had a well-known history of MAP-infection from a herd surveillance programme conducted since 2006. Cows in these herds we...

In a cold boot attack a cryptosystem is compromised by analysing a noisy version of its internal state. For instance, if a computer is rebooted the memory contents are rarely fully reset; instead, after the reboot an adversary might recover a noisy image of the old memory contents and use it as a stepping stone for reconstructing secret keys. While such attacks were known for a long time, they ...

Configuring a million-core parallel system at boot time is a difficult process when the system has neither specialised hardware support for the configuration process nor a preconfigured default state that puts it in operating condition. The architecture of SpiNNaker, a parallel chip multiprocessor (CMP) system for neural network simulation, is in this class. To function as a universal neural ch...

With the extensive application of IoT techniques, devices have become ubiquitous in daily lives. Meanwhile, attacks against emerged to compromise by tampering with system pre-installed programs or injecting new malware. To mitigate these attacks, integrity enforcement systems has been proposed. The an device includes load-time and runtime integrity. In this paper, we design based on ARM TrustZo...