Medical Concerns

Panel Chair, Greg Cox Papers Presented: Ebene: Psychedelic Snuff of the Yanomami by Kelly Partin Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: A Survey by Mary Cronin Kinematic Analysis of Universal Joint using Catia V5 by Jibin Jacob Effects of Preterm Birth by Patricia J. Campos Proposal for ETT Research using Picutre-Induced Neural Signatures by Katy N. Lee Severe Mental Illness in the Homeless by Batoul C. Zalkout Asthma Disease of the Respiratory System by Janelle Clar

Pseudonymity in VANETS and its implications on the vehicular communication protocol stacks

Vehicular Communication (VC) network technology is in the verge of real world deployment. The technology is aimed at achieving high levels of traffic efficiency security and comfort for the users of the traffic system. The technology facilitates exchange of awareness and notification messages among the vehicles to improve the traffic efficiency and safety of the drivers. However, deployment of this awesome technology faces several security and privacy risks. The system is subjected to security risks like replay attacks, nodes sending false information to the system, denial of service attacks by clogging the networks. System also faces several privacy challenges in which sensitive user data can be eavesdropped and also tracing out a particular node using the location data sent by the node. In this research we focused on protecting the privacy of the users using the VC system. Several European projects have been working on privacy enhancement techniques for VC environments. Privacy policy enforcement approach from Privacy Enabled Capability In Co-Operative Systems and Safety Applications (PRECIOSA), pseudonym approach from Secure Vehicular Communication (SeVeCom) and Preparing secure V2X Communication Systems (PRESERVE) project which integrates the results from both PRECIOSA and SeVeCom projects are three of those projects considered in this report. This research is more focused on the pseudonym approach proposed by SeVeCom. We discuss the impact of pseudonym change on the communication stack, what other lower layer identifiers need to be changed along with the pseudonym change, and is there any other ways the attacker can still link the messages from a particular node to hamper the nodes privacy. Finally after analyzing the results from the research, we propose a solution to include a new module in the PRESERVE architecture called Identifier Change Management (IDCM) module to improve the anonymity of the user participating in the vehicular communication

Application of Transition-Metal Catalysis, Biocatalysis and Flow Chemistry as State-of-the-Art Technologies in the Synthesis of LCZ696

LCZ696 is a novel treatment for patients suffering from heart failure that combines the two active pharmaceutical ingredients sacubitril and valsartan in a single chemical compound. While valsartan is an established drug substance, a new manufacturing process suitable for large-scale commercial production had to be developed for sacubitril. The use of chemocatalysis, biocatalysis, and flow chemistry as state-of-the-art technologies allowed to efficiently build up the structure of sacubitril and achieve the defined performance targets

The 2008 update of the Aspergillus nidulans genome annotation : a community effort

The identification and annotation of protein-coding genes is one of the primary goals of whole-genome sequencing projects, and the accuracy of predicting the primary protein products of gene expression is vital to the interpretation of the available data and the design of downstream functional applications. Nevertheless, the comprehensive annotation of eukaryotic genomes remains a considerable challenge. Many genomes submitted to public databases, including those of major model organisms, contain significant numbers of wrong and incomplete gene predictions. We present a community-based reannotation of the Aspergillus nidulans genome with the primary goal of increasing the number and quality of protein functional assignments through the careful review of experts in the field of fungal biology