Ensuring the security of corporate information, that is increasingly stored, processed and disseminated using information and communications technologies [ICTs], has become an extremely complex and challenging activity. This is a particularly important concern for knowledge-intensive organisations, such as Universities, as the effective conduct of their core teaching and research activities is ...

Increasing attention has been focused in recent years on the need for multilateral negotiation processes in the disarmament and arms control field to “think outside the box” in addressing contemporary challenges. But beyond recognition that there are imperfections in current approaches, it is not always clear that the parameters of the existing box are sufficiently understood or, indeed, what t...

Our key innovation is to allow volume snapshots in VDFS (our native hyper-converged distributed file system) to be exported to a stand-alone regular file that can be imported to another VDFS cluster efficiently (zerocopy when possible) called exo-clones. Our exo-clones carry provenance, policy, and similar to git commits, the fingerprints of the parent clones from which they were derived. They ...

“Bin packing with rejection” is the following problem: Given a list of items with associated sizes and rejection costs, find a packing into unit bins of a subset of the list such that the number of bins used plus the sum of rejection costs of unpacked items is minimized. We show that bin packing with rejection can be reduced to n multiple knapsack problems and, based on techniques for the multi...

We prove that for every > 0 and positive integer r, there exists ∆0 = ∆0( ) such that if ∆ > ∆0 and n > n(∆, , r) then there exists a packing of Kn with b(n − 1)/∆c graphs, each having maximum degree at most ∆ and girth at least r, where at most n edges are unpacked. This result is used to prove the following: Let f be an assignment of real numbers to the edges of a graph G. Let α(G, f) denote ...

Varieties of robotic grippers are developed with high flexibility and multi-functional approaches. In this paper, the study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum Gripper of Robots’ which is working on Bernoulli Principle for generating a high-speed flow between the gripper plate and product surface thereby crea...

Using signaling theory, this study unpacked the mechanisms through which online review information quality and reviewer credibility influence helpfulness, in e-commerce context. Conducting a survey with users Danang having read reviews on Shopee.vn, 244 valid responses were used to evaluate research model via PLS-SEM software. The found that of strongly influences helpfulness compared previous ...

(the difference in risk) is estimated to be 19.6% with a 95% CI of 5.7% to 33.6%. The P value of 0.006 means that an ARR of 19.6% or more would occur only in 6 in 1000 trials if streptomycin was equally as effective as bed rest. Since the P value is less than 0.05, the results are statistically significant (i.e., it is unlikely that streptomycin is ineffective in preventing death). The 95% CI s...

In minority games, players in a group must decide at each round which of two available options to choose, knowing that only subjects who picked the minority option obtain a positive reward. Previous experiments on the minority and similar congestion games have shown that players interacting repeatedly are remarkably able to coordinate e ciently, despite not conforming to Nash equilibrium behavi...