Collective decision-making failures are often attributed to group members’ unwillingness to express unpopular opinions, and incident investigations frequently name lack of dissent as a causal factor (Sunstein, 2006). The investigation following the Columbia space-shuttle explosion, for instance, cited a culture at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in which ‘‘it is difficult for ...

Packers have long been a valuable tool in the toolbox of offensive users for evading the detection capabilities of signature-based antivirus engines. However, selecting the packer that results in the most effective evasion of antivirus engines may not be a trivial task due to diversity in the capabilities of both antivirus and packers. In this paper, we propose the creation of an online automat...

With the advance of packing techniques, a few generic and automatic unpackers have been proposed. These unpackers are designed to automatically unpack packed binaries without specific knowledge of the packing techniques used. In this paper, we present an automatic packer with which packed malware forges spurious unpacking behaviors that lead to a denial-of-service attack on host-based generic u...

We empirically investigate the effects of beef packer concentration and size efficiencies, packer procurement and pricing methods, and other market variables and quality characteristics on the prices paid by packers for slaughter cattle. We find that packers pay less for fed cattle in more concentrated regions. However, we find that concentration is only one of numerous market factors determini...

Recently, a malware is growing rapidly and the number of malware applies various techniques to protect itself from the anti-virus solution detection. The reason of this phenomenon is that a longer resident on an infected host guarantees the more profit. As a result, these many protection techniques are applied to a malware, a representative of those is a Packing. It is not an exaggeration that ...

Two new species of the genus Geodiscelis are described: Geodiscelis nazcalinea Packer & Dumesh, sp. nov. from Peru (the first record of the genus from that country) and G. phisquiri Packer & Dumesh, sp. nov. from northern Chile. The new species are most closely related to G. longiceps, but differ primarily in having somewhat less elongate heads and in details of the male terminalia. A key to th...

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 200 West Packer Avenue, Mohler Lab, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California–Berkeley, 4121 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 200 West Packer Avenue, Mohler Lab, Bethlehem, PA 18015...

case: a 26-year-old man referred to emergency service with coma, bradypnea (respiratory rate = 4 breaths per minute) and pinpoint pupil. on chest auscultation, diffuse coarse crackle and on abdominal auscultation, decrease of abdominal sounds were found. at first evaluation, pulse oximetry showed 19% saturation of oxygen. after oxygen therapy with facial mask and infusion of 8.4 mg naloxone in ...