On Generation of Firewall Log Status Reporter (SRr) Using Perl

Computer System Administration and Network Administration are few such areas where Practical Extraction Reporting Language (Perl) has robust utilization these days apart from Bioinformatics. The key role of a System/Network Administrator is to monitor log files. Log file are updated every day. To scan the summary of large log files and to quickly determine if there is anything wrong with the server or network we develop a Firewall Log Status Reporter (SRr). SRr helps to generate the reports based on the parameters of interest. SRr provides the facility to admin to generate the individual firewall report or all reports in one go. By scrutinizing the results of the reports admin can trace how many times a particular request has been made from which source to which destination and can track the errors easily. Perl scripts can be seen as the UNIX script replacement in future arena and SRr is one development with the same hope that we can believe in. SRr is a generalized and customizable utility completely written in Perl and may be used for text mining and data mining application in Bioinformatics research and development too.Comment: 10Page

A Multi-Objective Decision-Making Approach For Mutual Fund Portfolio

Investment decision-making problems are generally multi-objective in nature such as minimization of the risk and maximization of the expected return.  These problems can be solved efficiently and effectively using multi-objective decision making (MODM) tools such as a lexicographic goal programming (LGP).  This paper applies the LGP model for selecting an optimum mutual fund portfolio for an investor, while taking into account specific parameters including risk, return, expense ratio and others.  Sensitivity analysis on the assigned weights in a priority structure of the goals identifies all possible solutions for decision-making.  The Euclidean distance method is then used, to measure distances of all possible solutions from the identified ideal solution.  The optimal solution is determined by the minimum distance between the ideal solution and other possible solutions of the problem. The associated weights with the optimal solution will be the most appropriate weights in a given priority structure.  The effectiveness and applicability of the LGP model is demonstrated via a case example from broad categories of mutual funds

Sustainability and Waste Management: Case Histories

Sustainability is the condition of maintaining a process or a state at a certain level for perpetuity. In waste management and geoenvironmental engineering terms: sustainability is making marginal and waste lands and waste products into usable properties, products and services. To address sustainability issue, this paper first presents waste minimization policies prior to disposal; a few examples of this are: recycling, composting and incineration. After efficiently using the waste minimization policies, the remaining produced waste needs to be disposed of which has two aspects (i) the presently active waste disposal sites and (ii) the already disposed waste and closed waste sites. Active sites can be made sustainable by using techniques, such as, optimizing the airspace within the permitted boundaries by using MSE Berm, using bioreactors and utilizing landfill gas (LFG) for energy generation. The closed sites can be made “more sustainable” by developments, such as, parks, golf courses, industrial and commercial buildings, and solar and wind power generation projects. Finally, there are a few incubator technologies that, at the present time, are at pilot scale levels and work on them needs to be actively encouraged so that the advancement in sustainable technologies is continued. A few examples of such technologies are: Plasma arc, converting hard to recycle plastics into diesel and gasoline, and energy parks. This paper discusses these issues and presents case histories that help sustainability. The case histories presented consist of MSE berm and bioreactor technologies at active waste disposal sites; and industrial and commercial buildings and solar energy projects constructed on top of already closed landfills. All these cited case histories exhibit that by using existing technologies greenhouse gases (GHGs) and carbon footprint can be reduced resulting in the maintenance of sustainability

Bound for the Complex Growth Rate in Thermosolutal Convection Coupled with Cross-diffusions

Thermosolutal convection problem of the Veronis’ type coupled with cross–diffusion is considered in the present paper. A semi -circle theorem that prescribes upper limit for the complex growth rate of oscillatory motions of neutral or growing amplitude in such a manner that it naturally culminates in sufficient conditions precluding the non- existence of such motions is derived. Further, results for thermosolutal convection problems with or without the individual consideration of Dufour and Soret effects follow as a consequence

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF DAILY INTERNATIONAL TOURIST ARRIVALS AND RISK BY LAND TRANSPORT: A CASE OF THE ASIA HIGHWAY IN SONGKHLA PROVINCE OF THAILAND

Asian Highway route No. 4, the only main national highway that links to the North South Economic corridor of the Greater Mekong Sub-region at Bangkok, is the gateway for East Asian countries to enter into the Thailand by land transport. Hence, the twin purposes of this paper are to a) appraise the present state of international tourist arrivals by land transport into Songkhla province of Thailand and to b) model the associated risk. Conditional mean and conditional volatility models from the ARCH family were adopted to illustrate the behavior of daily international tourist arrivals into the province. The parameters of the conditional mean and conditional volatility models are statistically significant and the Quasi Maximum Likelihood estimators are also valid and statistically consistent. The results show that almost 80% of those arrivals were from Malaysia and that short run risk is persistent. Negative asymmetric behavior is also observed in the daily international arrivals by land. The strategic implications of this empirical study envisage sufficient room for intervening or amending provincial tourism policy to better attract and stabilize Malaysian tourist arrivals and to promote tourism as a local business

The "non-intervention" policy in Spanish civil war

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1946. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Interspecific cross between Durum Wheat and Aegilops geniculata to transfer resistance to Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor Say.)

Interspecific cross between Durum Wheat and Aegilops geniculata to transfer resistance to Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor Say.). Interspecific crosses between durum wheat (Triticum durum) and accessions of Aegilops geniculata were initiated the first year of the present program. Only those accessions that were resistant to Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor Say.) were used with the objective to transfer the resistance to wheat. Embryo rescue of immature hybrid seeds was necessary. Two hybrids between T. durum and A. geniculata were produced and planted in the field the second year. They presented intermediate traits between their two parents and produced a progeny after selfing or backcrossing. Meiotic analysis of the pollen mother cells showed low pairing between parental chromosomes in the hybrids

A Multi-Objective Decision Making Approach For Mutual Fund Portfolio

Investment decision-making problems are generally multi-objective in nature such as minimization of the risk and maximization of the return.  These problems can be solved efficiently and effectively using multi-objective decision making (MODM) tools such as a lexicographic goal programming (LGP).  This paper applies the LGP model for selecting an optimum mutual fund portfolio for an investor, while taking into account specific parameters including risk, return, expense ratio and others.  Using sensitivity analysis on the weights in a priority structure of the goals identifies all possible solutions in the decision-making process.  The Euclidean distance method is then used, to measure distances of all possible solutions from the identified ideal solution.  The optimum possible solution is determined by the minimum distance between the ideal solution and other possible solutions of the problem.  The associated weights will be the most appropriate weights in a given priority structure.  The effectiveness and applicability of the LGP model is demonstrated via a case example from broad categories of mutual funds