Mitigating smart card fault injection with link-time code rewriting: a feasibility study

We present a feasibility study to protect smart card software against fault-injection attacks by means of binary code rewriting. We implemented a range of protection techniques in a link-time rewriter and evaluate and discuss the obtained coverage, the associated overhead and engineering effort, as well as its practical usability

Evolution of marine storminess in the Belgian part of the North Sea

Severe storms have affected European coast lines in the past but knowledge on changes in storminess for the last decades is still sparse. Climate change is assumed to be a main driving factor with the potential to induce changes on the intensity, duration and frequency of powerful marine storms, including a long-term influence on peak wind speeds, surges and waves. It is, therefore, important to investigate whether in the last decades changes in the magnitude of storms, their duration and frequency could be observed. Understanding trends in storminess in the last decades will help to better prepare coastal managers for future events, taking into account potential changes on storm occurrence and magnitude to improve planning of mitigation and adaptation strategies. The purpose of this study was to focus on the evolution of extreme wind conditions, wave height and storm surge levels in the North Sea Region, especially in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS). Based on the analysis performed it is concluded that no clear trend can be observed for the occurrence of significant increasing extreme wind speeds over the BPNS. Furthermore, one can conclude that not enough scientific evidence is available to support scenarios with increased wave height or storminess

A first phase in the habitat classification for the Zeeschelde: Bed form classification

Within the scope of the long term vision of the Schelde Estuary and the Development Outline 2010 low dynamic intertidal and shallow water areas are considered to be of high ecological value. Little is known about the occurrence of such valuable reas in the Schelde Estuary, nor are the physical and morphological processes which determine the occurrence of these areas fully understood. Based on the results and recommendations of a 2008-2009 research project in the Westerschelde, a new research project was defined to determine relationships between abiotic (bedforms, hydrodynamics, sediment) and biotic (benthos) characteristics in the Zeeschelde (Belgium) and to set up a classification of deep and undeep subtidal areas. A first phase in the habitat classification comprises of the analysis of bed form occurrence and the setup of a bed form classification based on multibeam echo sounding data. Results show within the different sub areas a variation in bed forms going from hard bed layers to no bed forms to ripples (H ~ 0,1 to 0,3 m | L ~ 10 m) and smaller dunes (H ~ 0,5 to 1 m | L ~ 15 to 25 m). On-going research investigates relationships between the bed form characteristics and flow and sediment characteristics. Preliminary results

A GIS tool for flood risk analysis in Flanders (Belgium)

In the past decades, the low-lying region Flanders (Belgium) has fall victim to numerous flood events, causing substantial damage to buildings and infrastructure. In response to this, the Flemish government proposed a new approach which considers the level of risk as a way for safety measurement. Using geographical information systems, this evolution has lead to a comprehensive risk methodology, and more recently to the development of a flood risk assessment tool called LATIS. By estimating the potential damage and the number of casualties during a flood event, LATIS offers the possibility to perform risk analysis in a fast and effective way. This paper presents a brief overview of the currently used methodology for flood risk management in Flanders and its implementation in the LATIS tool. The usefulness of this new tool is demonstrated by a sequence of risk calculations, performed in the framework of climate change impacts on flood risk in Flanders

Dutch parallel corpus: a balanced parallel corpus for Dutch-English and Dutch-French

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