Improving Privacy Preservation using IBS and IBOOS in VANET

In Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs), vehicles have to be protected from the misuse of their private data and the attacks on their privacy. Here the authentication issues with privacy preservation and non-repudiation in VANETs have been considered. The self-generated public-key cryptography PKC based pseudonyms are also used as identifiers instead of vehicle IDs for the privacy-preserving authentication, while the update of the pseudonyms depends on vehicular demands. The existing ID-based signature (IBS) scheme and the ID-based online/offline signature (IBOOS) scheme are used, for the authentication between the road side units (RSUs) and vehicles, and the authentication among vehicles, respectively. Authentication, privacy preservation, non-repudiation have been analyzed for VANETs. Typical performance evaluation has been conducted using efficient IBS and IBOOS schemes

Geologic entropy with economic constraints predicts mineral prices

We propose a geologic entropy for describing the price of an element from its abundance. Maximizing a geologic entropy function under economic constraints using the Lagrange multiplier method yields specific predictions verifiable by data. Please click Additional Files below to see the full abstract

Preparation and properties of zinc doped cadmium selenide compounds by e-beam evaporation

Cd1 – xZnxSe films with different zinc content were deposited by electron beam evaporation technique onto glass substrates for the application of solid-state photovoltaic devices. The structural, surface morphological and optical properties of Cd1 – xZnxSe films have been studied in the present work. The host material, Cd1 – xZnxSe, have been prepared by the physical vapor deposition method of electron beam evaporation technique (PVD: EBE) under a pressure of 1 10 – 5 mbar. The X-ray diffractogram indicates that these alloy films are polycrystalline in nature, hexagonal structure with strong preferential orientation of the crystallites along (002) direction. Linear variation of lattice constant with composition (x) is observed. The optical properties shows that the band gap (Eg) values varies from 2.08 to 2.64 eV as zinc content varies from 0.2 to 0.8. The surface morphological studies show the very small, fine and hardly distinguishable grains smeared all over the surface. It is observed that the grain size is decreasing with increasing zinc content. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/2299

An Examination Of The Country Liquidity Index To Predict A Country's Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is critical to the economic development of any nation regardless of its level of growth. There is a plethora of research on the determining factors of FDI, both economic and non-economic, but very little on the weighted influence of these factors. This research is an attempt to categorize and rank the major determinates of FDI. The conclusion reached by this research is that economic condition of a country is a major determining factor for FDI, but there are other competing factors, as well, that have major impact on FDI. Using the Country Liquidity Index (CLI) as a barometer, the FDI is regressed to develop a model to predict the potential FDI of a country. Results conclude that only 22.46% of a country's FDI is explained by economic factors leaving the remaining 77.54% unexplained. This research attempts to explain the unexplained factors and rank the countries as overinvested and underinvested. A review of the data for the over and underinvested countries indicates that political factors and third country influences may outweigh economic factors when it comes to FDI. The paper concludes with a ranking of 62 countries and their foreign direct investment potential along with their current over/under foreign direct investments

Complete Security Package for USB Thumb Drive

This paper is devoted to design and implement a complete security platform for USB flash disks due to the popularity of this device in exchanging data, it is a complete system security solution as it concerns the thumb drive due to the manipulation of I/O operation not the file system.  USB flash disks have been the major threat for computer system beside the internet threats where viruses can spread from computer to computer or from computer to network. USB complete security system presented by this paper is composed of three essential elements: kernel filter driver which will be installed in USB device driver stack to intercept all exchanged packets and send it to encryption unit, kernel level encryption/decryption unit and configuration unit. In contrary to most USB security modules the system presented by this paper will store only the round number of the key generator with the encrypted data. Round number will be coded using MD5 algorithm to increase the immunity of attacking data stored in the flash disks. Keywords: USB protection, kernel driver, device stack, encryption/decryption, filter driver, MD5.

Synthesis, Growth and Spectroscopic Studies of L-Alanine Hydrogen Chloride(Lahc) Crystals

L-alanine Hydrogen Chloride (LAHC) salt was synthesized by taking L-alanine and hydrochloric acid in 1:1 molar ratio and the solubility of the synthesized salt in deionized water was determined at different temperatures. Single crystals of  L-alanine  Hydrogen Chloride (LAHC) were grown by solution method with slow evaporation technique. The grown crystals were characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, FTIR studies and UV-visible transmittance studies and the NLO activity of the grown crystal has been checked by Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) test.ÂÂ

Crystal structural studies of ethyl-5-(4-chlorophenylsulfonyl)-4-hydroxy-2, 6-dip-tolyl-1, 2, 5, 6-tetrahydropyridine-3-carboxylate and diethyl 4-hydroxy-2-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-(phenylsulfonyl)-6-(phenylsulfonylmethyl)cyclohexa-3,6-diene-1,3-dicarboxylate

The crystal structures of trans,trans-Ethyl-5-(4-chlorophenylsulfonyl)-4-hydroxy-2,6-dip-tolyl-1,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridine-3-carboxylate (Ia) and cis-Diethyl 4-hydroxy-2-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-(phenylsulfonyl)-6-(phenylsulfonylmethyl)cyclohexa-3,6-diene-1,3-dicarboxylate (Ib) were elucidated by single crystal X ray diffraction. Compound (Ia) C28H28Cl NO5S, crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P 21/c, with a = 9.4530(7) Å, b = 25.366(2) Å, c = 11.4353(8) Å, β = 103.092(7)°, V = 2670 (3) Å3 and   Z = 4. The compound (Ib), C31H29N1O11S2, crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P 21/c, with a = 21.179(4) Å, b = 8.4998(16) Å, c = 17.347(3) Å, β = 102.563(3)°, V = 3048.0(10) Å3 and Z = 4. The central piperidine ring of compound (Ia) adopts the sofa conformation and the central cyclohexadiene ring of compound (Ib) adopts the boat conformation.  Details of the compounds preparation, crystal structures and hydrogen bonding interactions of the compounds are discussed

Crystal structure of 2-methylamino-3-nitro-4-p-tolylpyrano[3,2-c]chromen-5(4H)-one

The authors thank Dr Babu Varghese, SAIF, IIT, Chennai, India, for the data collection.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Direct observation of stalled fork restart via fork regression in the T4 replication system

The restart of a stalled replication fork is a major challenge for DNA replication. Depending on the nature of the damage, different repair processes might be triggered; one is template switching, which is a bypass of a leading-strand lesion via fork regression. Using magnetic tweezers to study the T4 bacteriophage enzymes, we have reproduced in vitro the complete process of template switching. We show that the UvsW DNA helicase in cooperation with the T4 holoenzyme can overcome leading-strand lesion damage by a pseudostochastic process, periodically forming and migrating a four-way Holliday junction. The initiation of the repair process requires partial replisome disassembly via the departure of the replicative helicase. The results support the role of fork regression pathways in DNA repair

Assessment of combining ability for yield and quality components in hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)

Six parental genotypes and their thirty F1 hybrids in a full diallel cross system with reciprocals, were used in the present study to estimate combining ability for five quantitative and five qualitative traits in hot pepper. The mean sum of squares due to general combining ability (GCA), specific combining ability (SCA) and reciprocal combining ability (RCA) were significant for all the characters which suggest that these parents could have performed differently in different combinations indicating interallelic interactions. All the traits studied exhibited greater SCA variance than GCA, suggesting that these traits are controlled by non-additive gene action. Analysis of the GCA effects of parents for various traits revealed that LCA625, K1 and PKM1 were the best general combiners for almost all the traits. Estimates of SCA effects showed that the hybrids LCA625 × K1, K1 × Arka LohitandPusa Jwala × PKM1were found to be the best combiners for yield and its attributes. The hybrid K1 × Arka Lohitwas the best reciprocal combiner for quality parameters based on its better mean performance and combining ability. These results suggest that commercial production of hot pepper hybrids and isolation of pure lines from these hybrids is a possible way to enhance the yield and fruit quality