The influence of Hegel on Marx and TH Green in the philosophy of the state

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FREQUENCY HOPPING NETWORK CONNECTIONS

Opening a port on the internet typically involves signaling a request for consent to consider whether a random incoming connection is good enough to continue. Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks can exploit this process by spamming connection attempts. However, in order to be a service the host and port are to be advertised to the network that is to be connected and (at least in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)) sweeping all open ports in a likely range is a perfectly feasible option. Presented herein are techniques that utilize a novel frequency-hopping approach to listening ports in order to implement consent-based networking

Darling Range rural land capability study

This report presents land resource mapping and land capability assessments for rural residential and associated agricultural activities at a scale of 1:50,000 over 100,000 ha of rural land in Perth\u27s eastern metropolitan hills area. The study area is bounded to the west by the Great Northern, Albany, Roe and South Western highways, and extends north, east and south to the boundary of the Perth metropolitan area. Using the broad framework of landform-soil associations defined by Churchward and McArthur (1980), discrete mapping units have been delineated by reference to landform and soil characteristics likely to affect future land uses. They provide a framework for land capability assessment in terms of the Western Australian Department of Agriculture\u27s five class system. Land capability assessments for specific land uses, and values for individual land qualities and characteristics, are presented for each map unit in a tabular format. This information forms the data base for the digital mapping on the Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS) Intervax 8650 computer. Because of limitations imposed by the mapping scale, the capability assessment results presented should be used primarily for regional land use planning purposes. For more detailed site specific application, on-site inspections may be required to determine whether the land use limitations indicated do occur and are of the magnitude described by the capability ratings

EFFICIENT QUEUE MANAGEMENT IN A PACKET BUFFER BETWEEN PROCESSES

Techniques are described herein for queueing between multiple threads and processes. These techniques provide for a low-lock queue to allow multiple transmitters and receivers to successfully use a single queue efficiently. In particular, the techniques presented herein provide tactics for passing packets in a shared memory area from one process with threads to another process with a potentially different number of threads, requiring different transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) queue counts on the two sides of the connection and avoiding stalls in the multiple workers as they operate on shared data structures

The Dormancy Dilemma: Quiescence versus Balanced Proliferation

Metastatic dissemination with subsequent clinical outgrowth leads to the greatest part of morbidity and mortality from most solid tumors. Even more daunting is that many of these metastatic deposits silently lie undetected, recurring years to decades after primary tumor extirpation by surgery or radiation (termed metastatic dormancy). As primary tumors are frequently curable, a critical focus now turns to preventing the lethal emergence from metastatic dormancy. Current carcinoma treatments include adjuvant therapy intended to kill the cryptic metastatic tumor cells. Because such standard therapies mainly kill cycling cells, this approach carries an implicit assumption that metastatic cells are in the mitogenic cycle. Thus, the pivotal question arises as to whether clinically occult micrometastases survive in a state of balanced proliferation and death, or whether these cells undergo at least long periods of quiescence marked by cell-cycle arrest. The treatment implications are thus obvious—if the carcinoma cells are cycling then therapies should target cycling cells, whereas if cells are quiescent then therapies should either maintain dormancy or be toxic to dormant cells. Because this distinction is paramount to rational therapeutic development and administration, we investigated whether quiescence or balanced proliferation is the most likely etiology underlying metastatic dormancy. We recently published a computer simulation study that determined that balanced proliferation is not the likely driving force and that quiescence most likely participates in metastatic dormancy. As such, a greater emphasis on developing diagnostics and therapeutics for quiescent carcinomas is needed.National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Grant UH2TR000496

Political platonism in the English Renaissance

I argue that the influence of Platonic thought in Renaissance England cannot be properly understood without attending to what I call “Political Platonism”—a particularly civic approach to Plato and his works. Political Platonism, which derives in part from the efforts of early humanists such as Leonardo Bruni, differs sharply from the approach favored by more well-known Platonists such as Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. Where Pico and Ficino are drawn primarily to Plato’s metaphysical and cosmological speculations, Political Platonists tend to favor his moral, political, and rhetorical ideas. After identifying Political Platonism and distinguishing it from the Cosmological Platonism favored by Ficino and Pico in the first chapter, I trace its appearance in English writers with significant Platonic influence throughout the Renaissance in subsequent chapters. Chapter Two examines early Tudor writers such as Thomas More and Thomas Elyot, with whom the pressing needs of the new political regime combine with their own humanist ideals to produce a uniquely civic approach to Plato. Chapter Three explores how Francis Bacon uses, changes, and challenges Plato in the course of developing his own program for the advancement of science. Finally, in Chapter Four I show how John Milton continues to read Plato as a civic philosopher even as he wrestles anew with the difficulties confronting the adaptation of classical philosophy to Christian culture