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Reports that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has begun discarding so-called examiners' copies from its collection of patents issued since the mid-19th century. Proposal to discard all paper copies and encourage patent research on a computerized database; Idea that the database will not be able to replace certain aspects of the paper copies; Proposal to discard the public collection of copies.

Deals with the move of Bancshares Inc. to replace its employees balance sheet income report with a Web-based database and reporting system. Reaction of employees to the move of the company; Challenges the company encountered in its decision to replace paper with an online system; Information on the rate of increase of paper consumption of companies in the U.S.

Announces the release of the next Web-based discover platform Paper Village 2 by Elsevier Engineering Information. How the platform can be used to search published literature, conference proceedings, and information sources for the pulp and paper industry; Upgrades made to the underlying technology by expanding content sources to improve the research process.

Offers news relating to online databases as of December 1, 2001. Collection of BioMed Central of online meeting abstracts to aid librarians and researchers; Creation of a service for research scientists by BioMed which evaluates papers published in the biological sciences; Creation of a reference package by EBSCO Publishing; More.

Reports submission of over 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific research papers to BioMed Central Journals. BioMed Central's commitment to free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research articles; Support of BioMed from scientists; Concerns over the profit and control that the commercial sector exercises over the scientific community.

Reports that newspapers in New York State have banded together to fund the creation of a campaign-funds-tracking database. Frustration with state's failure to computerize campaign finance records; Round of stories detailing how campaign contributions received by each candidate; Benefits of creating the database to track and analyze campaign funds.

A rootkit is cloaked software that infiltrates an operating system or a database with the intention to escape detection, resist removal, and perform a specific operation. Many rootkits are designed to invade the "root," or kernel, of the program, and therefore operate without announcing their presence to the owner of the computer. Although some rootkits are written with noble intentions (e.g., to strengthen an anti-virus package), true rootkits have a malicious purpose. A rootkit infection can render a compromised computer system vulnerable to attacks and corruption. Rootkits are named for their origin in Linux systems, but the number of rootkits that attack Microsoft operating systems has recently proliferated. Not only are rootkits difficult to detect and assess, but at times the only effective way to remove them is to do a clean installation of the entire operating system. Recent discoveries of rootkits in other venues prove that the problem is spreading and is a major concern for administrators in information security. This paper presents a brief history of the development of rootkits and their possible effects.Prominent cases involving rootkits are described.The paper concludes with an overview of methods to prevent rootkits and to (hopefully) eradicate one that has infected an operating system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The manufacturer, Aalborg Industries, began taking advantage of a global business environment by moving manufacturing from its Erie, Pennsylvania headquarters, to plants around the world with the help of supply-chain providers, suppliers, subcontractors and extended enterprise partners. Thus, it needed a way to keep information flowing freely. Executives recently installed a Web-based central database that is accessible anytime by employees, suppliers, and partners, according to Dave Zurn, an Aalborg vice president. The database is fueled by collaboration and product data management software from SmarTeam of Kfar Saba, Israel.

Looks at Web-based database programs created with the software WebDB from Oracle company. Features of Web applications; Views on computer program user interfaces.

The article focuses on the possibility for computer hackers to change the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections in November 2016. Topics include attacks by Russian hackers on voter databases in Illinois and Arizona and how hackers can introduce confusion into the election. The use of touch screen machines connected to printers that can create a paper trail, most vulnerable systems in an election, and possible entrance of malware are also mentioned.

Problem/Condition: Approximately 450,000 legal permanent immigrants and 75,000 refugees enter the United States annually after receiving required medical examinations by overseas panel physicians (physicians who follow the CDC medical screening guidelines provided to the U.S. Department of State). CDC has the regulatory responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases into the United States as well as for developing the guidelines, known as technical instructions, for the overseas medical examinations. Other conditions that are not infectious might preclude an immigrant or refugee from entering the United States and also are reported as part of the medical examination. After arrival in the United States, all refugees are recommended to obtain a medical assessment by a health-care provider or a health department within 30 days. In addition, immigrants with certain medical conditions such as noninfectious tuberculosis at the time of the original medical examination are recommended to be evaluated after arrival to ensure that appropriate prevention or treatment measures are instituted. Health departments need timely and accurate notifications of newly arriving immigrants, refugees, and persons with other visa types to facilitate these evaluations. Notifications for all newly arriving refugees (with or without medical conditions) and immigrants with medical conditions are provided by CDC's Electronic Disease Notification (EDN) system. This is the first report describing EDN. Reporting Period: This report summarizes notifications by the EDN system during January-December 2009. Description of System: The EDN system is a centralized electronic reporting system that collects health information on newly arriving refugees and immigrants with Class A and Class B medical conditions. Class A conditions render applicants inadmissible and require a waiver for entry; Class B conditions are admissible but might require treatment or follow-up. Information in the EDN system is used to notify state health departments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia about the arrival of these persons in the United States. Results: In 2009, the EDN system notified U.S. state and local health departments of 104,954 newly arriving refugees and immigrants, of whom 78,899 (75.2%) were refugees (with or without medical conditions), 19,358 (18.4%) were immigrants with medical conditions, and 6,697 (6.4%) were persons with other visa types. Of the 78,899 refugees, 21,319 (27%) had a medical condition. The majority (93.4%) of immigrants with medical conditions had tuberculosis classifications (i.e., either had evidence of latent tuberculosis infection or chest radiograph findings interpreted by the overseas panel physician as consistent with tuberculosis). Of the 41,415 refugees and immigrants with Class A or Class B medical conditions, 405 (1%) had Class A conditions, and 40,994 (99%) had Class B conditions. The majority of refugees and immigrants with suspected Class B tuberculosis were born in the Philippines (41.3%), Mexico (12.1%), Burma (8.7%), Vietnam (7.8%), and the Dominican Republic (5.8%). The majority of refugee notifications were for persons born in Iraq (23.9%), Burma (18.9%), and Bhutan (15.1%). Approximately one third of the tuberculosis notifications were sent to health departments in California (20.5%), Texas (9.8%), and New York (6.3%), and the national reporting rate for tuberculosis follow-up was 75.4% within 30 days of arrival. Interpretation: The findings in this report suggest that 1) overseas medical screening results in a low frequency (0.4%) of inadmissible medical conditions in the United States, 2) the EDN system provides more direct notifications to health departments than the previous paper-based system about newly arriving immigrants and refugees who need medical follow-up, and 3) approximately 75% of follow-up occurs among persons with suspected tuberculosis who are reported to EDN by states receiving newly arriving refugees and immigrants. Public Health Actions: The data in this report can be used to help state and local health departments provide prompt and effective follow-up, evaluation, and treatment to newly arriving immigrants and refugees. Timely follow-up might prevent additional spread of tuberculosis or other communicable diseases of public health significance into their communities. In addition, information from the EDN system allows health departments to use their resources as effectively as possible by providing clinical information that identifies the refugees and immigrants who should be prioritized for evaluation and treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent advances in mobile computing and wireless communication technologies are enabling high mobility and flexibility of anytime, anywhere service access for mobile users. As a result, network connections of such users often span over heterogeneous networking environments consisting of wired and wireless networking technologies. Both network heterogeneity and user mobility make the securing of data transmission over heterogeneous networks challenging and complex. In this paper, we focus on the challenge of providing secure end-to-end network transmissions to wireless mobile users. To minimize service interruption during ongoing secure sessions of mobile users, we present the design and implementation of an approach based on the well-known Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) standard. We conducted a performance evaluation of our implementation using a Voice over IP (VoIP) application over an actual network testbed. Our empirical performance results demonstrate a packet loss improvement of 17% to 34% (for various VoIP packet sizes) and a handoff delay improvement of almost 24% validating the high efficiency of our proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses whether a few extracts from a piece of binary code would be sufficient to identify that piece of code in a large database. When detecting similarities in code--be it source or binary--there must be a baseline for comparison. Lines can be normalized as each line of code is inspected, but filtering out boilerplate is different: One cannot tell, just by looking at it, that something is standard verbiage. The original purpose of Opstring was to build a database of boilerplate function, by generating MD5 digests for every function included with Windows XP. Even having discarded so much of the function, what is left are reasonably reliable indicators of the function's identity. It is important to have a uniform method for generating the function database, but a testing version of Opstring does provide command-line options to control what is included or excluded in an opstring, allowing for different definitions of clone. Where symbolic names are available, one test for false positives checks for ostensibly matching functions that have significantly different names. Different compilers can take the same source code and produce fairly different binary code. One approach to reduce false negatives is to match on something other than function boundaries. The Opstring program is implemented in the AWK programming language, which simplifies text manipulation. When Opstring sees a function boundary, it outputs the previously collected filename, function name and opstring, then sets up for the next opstring.

The paper considers the use of incremental queries for fetching data dynamically. As a part of the .NET Framework, ADO.NET provides the DataSet class whose primary goal is to represent an in-memory data cache. Objects that can be cached include tables, views and constraints. The key to a dataset cache that retrieves data dynamically is with the adapter. When using a Structured Query Language query, one cannot randomly access retrieved records and one should not expect the fill function to do things differently. Data retrieval has to start from the beginning. In the limited data scenario, the caching function emphasizes saving network traffic and increasing the speed of data retrieval. The implementation hides many tasks, such as database connection management, rebuilding the incremental query string and getting the total number of rows in the query. When a query result becomes too large it may be impossible to hold it in memory. If large data returns are the problem, however, the first thing to try is narrowing the query result. Every now and then, when the quantity of data within a dataset exceeds a limit, one have to drop some to keep the in-memory data size manageable. An in-memory cache for large database queries is often necessary.

This article presents various resources for school library media centers. Macromedia offers educators four multimedia student portfolio templates and a whitepaper on the use and benefits of student portfolios. A project to make available online all the Thomas Jefferson papers in the United States Library of Congress has been completed. TeachingBooks.net Web site has a new look and powerful features. "Surpass Copycat" is a cataloging software for downloading free MARC records with no annual database subscription needed. The "Columbia Granger's Poetry Database" is available via EBSCOhost. "History Database Center" from Facts on File is an interface that will automatically be made available to customers who subscribe to two or more Facts on File history databases.

Provides information on what constitutes electronic records for spectrometers operating in regulated industries. Change from paper to electronic records; Importance of data organization; Interpretation of data files.

The article discusses the vendor ProQuest's release of new products and services despite its financial difficulties. Recent projects, such as the digitization of the House of Commons Parliament Papers, and expansion of its news databases are discussed. Some detailed information on the company's economic condition, job cuts, and stocks is also provided.

The article offers information services news briefs. Publisher Princeton University Press has an open-access digital database for papers written by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Publisher Cambridge University Press published Christopher Long's book "Socratic & Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading" in print version and on Cambridge Books Online (CBO). Educational publishing company Gale announced that researchers can use their content for data mining.

Confluence will also be offering databases -- structuredtables that help teams connect and organize informationsuch as Jira tasks, Confluence pages, due dates, andstatuses in one database table. News The Confluence workforce management platforms isoffering new data types and new ways of collaborating bothinternally and externally Atlassian unveiled a host of new features for itsConfluence workplace management platform Wednesday,offering new ways of working with additional types ofcontent. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines the concept of paperless office in future. Barring any breath taking revolutionary invention which is by its very nature impossible to predict the office of the future will hinge on three concepts: imaging, communication, and integration. According to Ron Arenson, senior manager of applications marketing of Wang Laboratories Inc. its incredible when one thinks that 90 to 95% of data processing budgets are dedicated to managing only about 5% of the information in the office. The rest is still on paper. The next office automation task is to get that other 95% into a usable form in a data base. INSETS: Equipment to fit the network;High-volume image system for engineers;The birth of the electronic desk.

This article discusses how technology has revolutionized how information is created and stored and the impact that computers and databases have had on media access. Journalists have found that acquiring digital records has become an obstacle because of the format, not the content. Public officials and agencies have a variety of lawful reasons for denying digital public records, which parallel those for paper documents. Agencies are nor required to create a record if what is requested does not exist, nor are they obligated to reprogram data to meet the requester's needs.

The author expresses disappointment over a paper published in the British medical journal "Lancet" which reported that hydroxychloroquine both was ineffective at treating the coronavirus and caused cardiac implications. He details some of the recent reports which investigated the use of some drugs in treating COVID-19 pandemic, such as dexamethasone and remdesivir. He also explains why ophthalmologists are very familiar with hydroxycholorquine.

This article reports that the adoption of a policy by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 requiring NIH-funded research papers to be submitted to the PubMed Central (PMC) database at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has resulted in an increase in the number of submissions. Statistics on monthly rates are included.

Reports that H. W. Wilson will replace the AMICO Library of images with the Art Museum Image Gallery database. Report that the images are rights cleared so that students can download them for papers and so that teachers can use the images for lectures; Statement that each image provides a description, with some featuring related multimedia.

This article announces the partnership between ProQuest Information & Learning and MyFamily.com Inc. ProQuest Information & Learning is partnering with genealogy firm MyFamily.com to release an online genealogical research tool dubbed Ancestry Library Edition. ProQuest is offering the database on a site license to provide unlimited users with unrestricted access. Additionally, ProQuest has begun distributing NewpaperDirect, a print-on-demand service that includes 240 same-day newspaper titles in 30 languages from 70 countries. Newspapers can be printed on 11" x 17" paper in black and white. Libraries can select the number of copies and titles they desire to print and make available in their reading rooms.

This article reports on the top researchers named by Thomson Scientific in 2005. Publishing nine highly cited Hot Papers on Acute Respiratory Syndrome earned the University of Hong Kong's Malik Peiris the title hottest researcher. The Thomson Scientific Hot Papers Database identifies a published work as a Hot Paper if it has achieved a rate of citations in scientific journals that is markedly higher than papers of comparable type and age. The researchers named published the most Hot Papers in the 2-year period reviewed by Thomson Scientific. Only non-review articles, those presenting original research, were considered. The Hottest Researchers are Malik Peiris, Clair M. Fraser, Henry R. Black, Wilina Lira, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Arkady A. Tseytlin, Rory Collins, Ian T. Paulsen, and Jeffrey A. Munn.

The article offers technology industry news briefs as of May 2018. The Library of Congress (LC) announces the online availability of the papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that include their correspondence, speeches, and materials from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Gale Small Business Builder comprehensive tool is offering integrated access to its business and legal resources. Solutions provider bibliotheca debuted its open library solution in North America.

This article presents information related to the computer industry. The major problem with database marketing isn't technology-related: it's the lack of sufficient staff to analyze all the data, according to a Forrester Research Inc.'s survey of 124 U.S. retail marketers. Twenty-six percent of online households are getting e-statements from their financial providers. Firms must wean customers from their addiction to paper by offering a printable statement in PDF format, automatically turning off paper statements for e-statement adopters and charging customers who request a paper statement via snail mail.

This article reports on SocINDEX databases offered by EBSCO Publishing as of June 2005. SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text are now available via EBSCOhost. SoclNDEX features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a 15,000-term sociology-specific thesaurus as welt as abstracts for more than 620 core journals dating back to 1895. It also provides priority coverage of more than 500 journals and selective coverage of more than 1,070 other journals. Indexing for books, conference papers, and other sources is included, as are searchable cited references. SoclNDEX with Full Text provides the same indexing and abstracts as Soc-lNDEX, as well as the full text of 72 priority journals and 241 core journals dating back to 1895. The database also includes the full text of 545 books and 6,711 conference papers.

The article evaluates information technology products including Global CONNECT print-on-demand technology from Ingram Content Group, Inc., PaperStream cloud based app from Pubget, Inc. and iPeerReview app for mobile access for submitted papers to AIP Publishing.

The article presents news items on medicine in Great Britain. The National Clinical Audit Advisory Group is examining whether the quality of local clinical audits could be linked to premiums paid by trusts to the National Health Service (NHS) Litigation Authority. British nurse practitioners have been allowed in 2010 to contribute to the Information Prescription Service database. The Primary Care Trust Network of the NHS Confederation has published a discussion paper on physician commissioning.

The article reports that U.S. senators are calling for the U.S. National Library of Medicine to disclose sources of research funding alongside abstracts of articles that are returned in searches of the library's PubMed database of biomedical papers.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comment of a reader on the articles "Linux Virtually Ready For the Data Center" that was published in April 2005 and "64 Reasons to Opt For Linux" that was published in May 2003 issue of the periodical; Focus on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that has released the hottest jobs through 2012 as determined by most net gains; View of a reader on the paper "CDP: Discovery For the Masses" that was published in January 2005 issue of the periodical.

This article reviews the Learner's Library (LL) database produced by Knowledge Ventures Inc. It is a database of multidisciplinary, full-text journal articles intended primarily for college students. Social science has the largest number of titles, with approximately 80. Arts and humanities, science and current events each have about 50 and business has about 20. The database's search results are often thin and spotty, with the same few periodicals providing the bulk of the retrieval in a given search. It uses relevance searching and there is no field limiting or data searching. It is the only service that has only one search method. An LL search identifies the passage within the individual document that has the highest occurrence of search terms and it sorts results accordingly. The idea is that users do not have to read through a lengthy and difficult article. Users just cut the database's quote and paste it into their research paper. There are two major faults with the database's searching. First, searches are full of duplicates. Moreover, the documents provided lack original graphics such as tables, charts and illustrations. LL is a subscription service that is sold to individuals. The cost is $9.95/week, $24.95/month, $49.95/6 months and $74.95/year.

This article provides information on data base suppliers to newspapers, such as Claritas Corp. and Donnelley Marketing Information Services. Claritas supplies data bases to 30 newspapers, according to Mark Capaldini, senior vice president of marketing for Claritas. Donnelley's Conquest data base is being used by four papers, including The Miami Herald and Chicago Sun-Times, according to Jeff Knebel, the company's assistant director of marketing. The data base is built on census data and information on nearly 85 million homes gathered by Donnelley Marketing. Claritas' data bases allow newspapers to gather information at various levels of detail. ZIP code level, which represents about 2,400 households is the least detailed level it has available. Census block group level, representing about 350 households, is the smallest grouping used by most papers.

This section offers digital information news briefs including Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) offering of double-blind peer review for its authors, the Global Commission on Internet Governance's latest working paper on Internet governance, and cybersecurity, and the Web of Things initiative.

Reports the announcement of the United States Library of Congress that it has added to and expanded collections available online from its American Memory Web site. The site as a project of the National Digital Library Program; `American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920,' a collection from the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; George Washington Papers; Other materials.

The article reports on the support given by the National Sheep Association to the principle of a database managed and run in a partnership between government and industry in Great Britain, which is a database that could replace the present paper movement recording process.

The article reports on the launch of the AP Mobile News Network by the Associated Press (AP) in an effort to speed ahead of its contemporaries. About 100 newspapers had signed up when AP revealed its plans for the network in April 2008, and now it totaled to 1,000 newspapers. Users of the network can get top AP news, as well as local news provided by member papers that send stories to a database where the stories are organized and transmitted. Information on the technology used and advertising component of the initiative is provided.

The article reports that the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Library, online database of the Society's journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press E-Books, will officially open in January 2008. Beginning in January, ASME will begin adding 10 more years to the journal archive and will add content continuously in 10-year increments. The library will also eventually include more than 30,000 conference proceedings papers, both current and archival, and ASME Press E-Books dating back to 1999.

The article reports on developments related to composting industry. Ron Alexander, president of R. Alexander Associates Inc. has compiled a library of research papers and articles on compost utilization from the past 20 years to create an electronic database of these documents. Honda Motor Co. Ltd. has succeeded in developing biofabric, a plant-based material with excellent durability making a great choice for use as a surface fabric in automobile interiors. GSI Environment Inc. has entered into a three-year contract with Toronto to manage some of its biosolids.

This article reports on the launch of the Sony Reader at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 2006. The device features an electronic paper display which gives dedicated electronic book readers another look. The Sony Reader starts selling at a price between $299 and $399.

Focuses on the launch of a database devoted to the environmental, health and safety implications of nanomaterials by the International Council of Nanotechnology. Collaborators of the project; Services and information provided by the site; Overview of the research papers accumulated by the organization.

The article focuses on Bayesian logic, which is a type of statistical analysis that can quantify an uncertain outcome by determining its probability of occurrence using previously known, related data. Bayesian filters are used in Spam-control software because they can adapt over time using new data. The application of Bayesian logic to the Spam problem got its start in Paul Graham's 2002 paper "A Plan for Spam," an approach that was soon adopted by numerous developers. Bayesian Spam filtering is based on the notion that the presence of certain words will indicate Spam, while other words will identify a message as legitimate. It has that in common with other types of scoring-content-based filters, hut with the added advantage that Bayesian filters create their own lists of telltale words and characteristics rather than working from lists created manually. A Bayesian filter starts by examining one set of e-mails known to he Spam and another set known to be legitimate. The Bayesian spam filter's real power, however, lies in its ability to learn: As the user tags new messages, the filter updates its database to identify new patterns of Spam. INSET: Bayes and His Theorem.

This article reports on the white paper, entitled Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns, released by Thomson Scientific, as of January 2005. The findings indicate that journals published under the open access (OA) model continue to gain impact in the world of scholarly research. Despite ranking lower as a group than those published under traditional models, the growth in the number of OA journals is impressive. Some OA journals rank near the top of their respective fields. Rankings are based on the Journal Impact Factor, as published in the Journal Citation Reports.

This article features the Issues and Controversies On File database for high school research. How often have you tried to help students do the necessary research for an assignment only to find articles that were far above their reading comprehension level? This was the challenge that led Edward Spruell, high school librarian in Roanoke, Virginia, to Issues and Controversies On File. Here he discovered a comprehensive database that provides extensive background and history on common high school research paper topics. The database also explains the opposing sides of all the issues covered. Spruell explains, Issues & Controversies packages an issue into easy-to-understand overviews and summaries . . . interspersed with thoughtful, specific writing that looks at the complexities of an issue, allowing students who use the opposing views to go from the general to the specific. From each core article, Issues & Controversies links students to a wealth of handpicked background information from across the Reference Suite@FACTS.com databases. Students can access sidebars, survey articles, news coverage, key speeches and primary documents, newspaper editorials, biographies, almanac and encyclopedia information, and more. Intuitive menus help. Spruell adds, Issues: Pro and Con takes current hot topics like terrorism and clarifies them into concise, succinct rhetorical packages that follow a logical arrangement.

Reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling or CREM has released draft guidance on the use of environmental models and a web-accessible Models Knowledge Base. Recommendations for environmental models drawn from the agency's white papers, Science Advisory Board reports and peer reviewed literature; Overview of the Models Knowledge Base.

Focuses on the research paper "Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendicectomy: Outcomes Comparison Based on a Large Administrative Database," by U. Gullder, published in the 2004 issue of the periodical "Annals of Surgery." Advantages of laparoscopic appendicectomy over open procedures; Median hospital stay; Rate of infection and complications.

Focuses on the research paper "National Use of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy," by A. Hersh, published in the 2004 issue of the periodical "Journal of the American Medical Association." Evidence of the harm associated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT); Use of databases from retail pharmacies and patient visits to physicians during which HRT was prescribed.

Focuses on the role played by technology and telephone books on the ethnic Albanians in rebuilding their lives after the Serbian forces destroyed their properties, personal papers and public records. Details on database created by librarians in the United States with the names and addresses of the Kosovars before war; Steps in creating the database.