Vehicular networks are used to coordinate actions among vehicles in traffic by the use of wireless transceivers (pairs of transmitters and receivers). Unfortunately, the wireless communication among vehicles is vulnerable to security threats that may lead to very serious safety hazards. In this work, we propose a viable solution for coping with Man-in-the-Middle attacks. Conventionally, Public ...

This paper incorporates a rich set of physical water quality attributes, as well as site and household characteristics, into a model of recreational lake usage in Iowa. Our analysis shows individuals are responsive to physical water quality measures. Willingness-to-pay estimates are reported based on improvements in these measures.

In today's healthcare system, there is an imbalance between what patients expect of caregivers' care and their perception of the care they get. How is it possible to reduce this imbalance? The aim of this paper was to describe attributes associated with meaningful encounters in the Swedish healthcare system based on patients' and caregivers' written narratives and to note the differences and si...

Background: Nonmarket stated preferences valuation, especially discrete choice experiments (DCEs), is one of the commonly used techniques in the health sector. The primary purpose of this approach is to help select attributes and attributes-levels that are able to properly describe health care products or services. This study aimed at developing attributes and attributes-levels for basic health...

The face is an important part of the identity of a person. Numerous applications benefit from the recent advances in prediction of face attributes, including biometrics (like age, gender, ethnicity) and accessories (eyeglasses, hat). We study the attributes’ relations to other attributes and to face images and propose prediction models for them. We show that handcrafted features can be as good ...

In contemporary academia, education is often perceived as a supplement to an academic career or tool satisfy management through course evaluations and this can alienate academics from teaching. To create inspiration deepen the understanding of teachers’ alienation well disalienation in classroom, we draw on Hermann Hesse’s last novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’. The story Joseph Knecht who escapes el...

polyomaviruses may cause human disease, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. jcv, one of the members of polyomaviridae family, is the causative agent of the neurological disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml), which occurs mostly in immunocompromised patients. progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml) is a progressive demyelinating disorder of the central nervous sy...

some physical attributes of two common types of iranian garlic cloves (white and pink) were identified and compared. a machine vision system was used to determine three di-mensions and both major and minor projected areas of garlic cloves at a moisture content of 42.4% w. b. the geometric mean diameter and sphericity were calculated, as well as the unit mass and volume of cloves were measured. ...

While the difficulties of defining meat quality are highlighted, the importance of measuring quality attributes is recognised, However, it is suggested that emphasis be given during the immediate future to the current research programmes aimed at the design and evaluation of carcase classification and information services. Should the pilot runs of the services demonstrate that the likely costs ...