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Scalable Detection and Isolation of Phishing
This paper presents a proposal for scalable detection and isolation of phishing. The main ideas are to move the protection from end users towards the network provider and to employ the novel bad neighborhood concept, in order to detect and isolate both phishing e-mail senders and phishing web servers. In addition, we propose to develop a self-management architecture that enables ISPs to protect their users against phishing attacks, and explain how this architecture could be evaluated. This proposal is the result of half a year of research work at the University of Twente (UT), and it is aimed at a Ph.D. thesis in 2012
Polyelectrolyte-colloid complexes: polarizability and effective interaction
We theoretically study the polarizability and the interactions of neutral
complexes consisting of a semi-flexible polyelectrolyte adsorbed onto an
oppositely charged spherical colloid. In the systems we studied, the bending
energy of the chain is small compared to the Coulomb energy and the chains are
always adsorbed on the colloid. We observe that the polarizability is large for
short chains and small electrical fields and shows a non-monotonic behavior
with the chain length at fixed charge density. The polarizability has a maximum
for a chain length equal to half of the circumference of the colloid. For long
chains we recover the polarizability of a classical conducting sphere. For
short chains, the existence of a permanent dipole moment of the complexes leads
to a van der Waal's-type long-range attraction between them. This attractive
interaction vanishes for long chains (i.e., larger than the colloidal size),
where the permanent dipole moment is negligible. For short distances the
complexes interact with a deep short-ranged attraction which is due to
energetic bridging for short chains and entropic bridging for long chains.
Exceeding a critical chain length eventually leads to a pure repulsion. This
shows that the stabilization of colloidal suspensions by polyelectrolyte
adsorption is strongly dependent on the chain size relative to the colloidal
size: for long chains the suspensions are always stable (only repulsive forces
between the particles), while for mid-sized and short chains there is
attraction between the complexes and a salting-out can occur.Comment: 13 pages, 14 figure
The phase diagram in the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with 't Hooft and eight-quark interactions
It is shown that the endpoint of the first order transition line which merges
into a crossover regime in the phase diagram of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model,
extended to include the six-quark 't Hooft and eight-quark interaction
Lagrangians, is pushed towards vanishing chemical potential and higher
temperatures with increasing strength of the OZI-violating eight-quark
interactions. We clarify a connection between the location of the endpoint in
the phase diagram and the mechanism of chiral symmetry breaking at the quark
level. Constraints on the coupling strengths based on groundstate stability and
physical considerations are explained.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, prepared for the proceedings of Hadron 2009 -
XIII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, November 29 - December
4, Florida State University (USA
Modular structure in C. elegans neural network and its response to external localized stimuli
Synchronization plays a key role in information processing in neuronal
networks. Response of specific groups of neurons are triggered by external
stimuli, such as visual, tactile or olfactory inputs. Neurons, however, can be
divided into several categories, such as by physical location, functional role
or topological clustering properties. Here we study the response of the
electric junction C. elegans network to external stimuli using the partially
forced Kuramoto model and applying the force to specific groups of neurons.
Stimuli were applied to topological modules, obtained by the ModuLand
procedure, to a ganglion, specified by its anatomical localization, and to the
functional group composed of all sensory neurons. We found that topological
modules do not contain purely anatomical groups or functional classes,
corroborating previous results, and that stimulating different classes of
neurons lead to very different responses, measured in terms of synchronization
and phase velocity correlations. In all cases, however, the modular structure
hindered full synchronization, protecting the system from seizures. More
importantly, the responses to stimuli applied to topological and functional
modules showed pronounced patterns of correlation or anti-correlation with
other modules that were not observed when the stimulus was applied to ganglia.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure
The Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with six and eight quark interactions
The extension of the Nambu-Jona-Lasino Model with six and eight quark
interactions to include the Polyakov loop is analysed. Several interesting
features are determined to be an effect of the choice of the regularization
procedure. The use of a Pauli-Villars covariant regularization enables a
coherent and correct description of several quantities.Comment: 3 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the conference proceedings for Quark
Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX, August 30- September 3 2010, Madrid
(Spain
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