423 research outputs found
"If You Can't Beat them, Join them": A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps
Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing
ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users' cloud files.
Such apps often request full access to users' files, including files shared
with collaborators. Hence, whenever a user grants access to a new vendor, she
is inflicting a privacy loss on herself and on her collaborators too. Based on
analyzing a real dataset of 183 Google Drive users and 131 third party apps, we
discover that collaborators inflict a privacy loss which is at least 39% higher
than what users themselves cause. We take a step toward minimizing this loss by
introducing the concept of History-based decisions. Simply put, users are
informed at decision time about the vendors which have been previously granted
access to their data. Thus, they can reduce their privacy loss by not
installing apps from new vendors whenever possible. Next, we realize this
concept by introducing a new privacy indicator, which can be integrated within
the cloud apps' authorization interface. Via a web experiment with 141
participants recruited from CrowdFlower, we show that our privacy indicator can
significantly increase the user's likelihood of choosing the app that minimizes
her privacy loss. Finally, we explore the network effect of History-based
decisions via a simulation on top of large collaboration networks. We
demonstrate that adopting such a decision-making process is capable of reducing
the growth of users' privacy loss by 70% in a Google Drive-based network and by
40% in an author collaboration network. This is despite the fact that we
neither assume that users cooperate nor that they exhibit altruistic behavior.
To our knowledge, our work is the first to provide quantifiable evidence of the
privacy risk that collaborators pose in cloud apps. We are also the first to
mitigate this problem via a usable privacy approach.Comment: Authors' extended version of the paper published at CODASPY 201
Palaeomagnetism of tertiary volcanic rocks from the Ethiopian southern plateau and the Danakil block
Remanent magnetization of 92 samples (22 sites) collected from Oligocene basalts from the Ethiopian southern plateau (location 9.1°N, 41°E) yields a palaeomagnetic pole at 75.1°N, 170.3°E with A95 = 6.4° after AF-cleaning. This pole agrees with the Eocene-Oligocene pole for the western plateau. Palaeomagnetic data of 125 samples (26 sites) from Early Pliocene basaltic rocks from the Danakil block (12.7°N, 42.5°E) yield a pole at 79.5°N, 258.8°E with A95 = 2.6°. The deviation of this pole position from other Miocene Pliocene poles for Africa is consistent with the hypothesis of 10° counter-clockwise rotation of the Danakil block since the Early Pliocene. On theoretical grounds however this amount of deviation may also be caused by not having completely averaged out secular variation due to insufficient sampling.
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On the Delta I = 1/2 rule in the Lambda N ----> N N reaction
It is shown that the mass dependence of the -lifetime in heavy
hypernuclei is sensitive to the ratio of neutron-induced to proton-induced
non-mesonic decay rates R_n/R_p. A comparison of the experimental mass
dependence of the lifetimes with the calculated ones for different values of
R_n/R_p leads to the conclusion that this ratio is larger than 2 on the
confidence level of 0.75. This suggests that the phenomenological I=1/2
rule might be violated for the nonmesonic decay of the -hyperon.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, to be published in European Physical Journal
Rational imitation for robots: the cost difference model
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Infants imitate behaviour flexibly. Depending on the circumstances, they copy both actions and their effects or only reproduce the demonstrator’s intended goals. In view of this selective imitation, infants have been called rational imitators. The ability to selectively and adaptively imitate behaviour would be a beneficial capacity for robots. Indeed, selecting what to imitate is an outstanding unsolved problem in the field of robotic imitation. In this paper, we first present a formalized model of rational imitation suited for robotic applications. Next, we test and demonstrate it using two humanoid robots
Sample preservation and storage significantly impact taxonomic and functional profiles in metaproteomics studies of the human gut microbiome
With the technological advances of the last decade, it is now feasible to analyze microbiome samples, such as human stool specimens, using multi-omic techniques. Given the inherent sample complexity, there exists a need for sample methods which preserve as much information as possible about the biological system at the time of sampling. Here, we analyzed human stool samples preserved and stored using different methods, applying metagenomics as well as metaproteomics. Our results demonstrate that sample preservation and storage have a significant effect on the taxonomic composition of identified proteins. The overall identification rates, as well as the proportion of proteins from were much higher when samples were flash frozen. Preservation in RNAlater overall led to fewer protein identifications and a considerable increase in the share of , as well as . Additionally, a decrease in the share of metabolism-related proteins and an increase of the relative amount of proteins involved in the processing of genetic information was observed for RNAlater-stored samples. This suggests that great care should be taken in choosing methods for the preservation and storage of microbiome samples, as well as in comparing the results of analyses using different sampling and storage methods. Flash freezing and subsequent storage at -80 °C should be chosen wherever possible
Caracterização morfofisiológica e patogênica de isolados de Sphaeropsis sapinea e avaliação de resistência em Pinus radiata.
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Evaluating Local Community Methods in Networks
We present a new benchmarking procedure that is unambiguous and specific to
local community-finding methods, allowing one to compare the accuracy of
various methods. We apply this to new and existing algorithms. A simple class
of synthetic benchmark networks is also developed, capable of testing
properties specific to these local methods.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, code included with sourc
Hall-like effect induced by spin-orbit interaction
The effect of spin-orbit interaction on electron transport properties of a
cross-junction structure is studied. It is shown that it results in spin
polarization of left and right outgoing electron waves. Consequently, incoming
electron wave of a proper polarization induces voltage drop perpendicularly to
the direct current flow between source and drain of the considered
four-terminal cross-structure. The resulting Hall-like resistance is estimated
to be of the order of 10^-3 - 10^-2 h/e^2 for technologically available
structures. The effect becomes more pronounced in the vicinity of resonances
where Hall-like resistance changes its sign as function of the Fermi energy.Comment: 4 pages (RevTeX), 4 figures, will appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Kink propagation in a two-dimensional curved Josephson junction
We consider the propagation of sine-Gordon kinks in a planar curved strip as
a model of nonlinear wave propagation in curved wave guides. The homogeneous
Neumann transverse boundary conditions, in the curvilinear coordinates, allow
to assume a homogeneous kink solution. Using a simple collective variable
approach based on the kink coordinate, we show that curved regions act as
potential barriers for the wave and determine the threshold velocity for the
kink to cross. The analysis is confirmed by numerical solution of the 2D
sine-Gordon equation.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures (2 in color
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