... access point.
In the shared key authentication method, the station wishing to authenticate (initiator)
sends an authentication request management frame indicating that it wishes to use the shared
key ... shared
key authentication. The responder responds by sending the challenge text, which is the
authentication management frame to the initiator. The PRNG with the shared secret and
the random initialization ... using the shared secret along with the new Initiating Vector (IV) selected by the
initiator. This frame is then sent to the responder. The latter decrypts the received frame and
verifies that the...
... cannot be linked back to the source. best inthe business inthe private sector. This type of
The main issue then in is inthe feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... important given the
track record for customer surveys inthe literature thus far
and the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.
Given the costs involved in designing and conducting these
surveys ... consider them to be customers.
assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency to
measure what was intended, there are still several issues...
... defined in (19.10). The excess MSE is the power of the additional error in the
filter output due to the errors inthe filter coefficients. An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in
steady-state is the ... Performance Issues
When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain
the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore theissues ... generalized expression for
these stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the
input signal power σ
2
x
in general. In practice, the input signal power...
... Academy
of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communi-
ties. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC,
1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... of the candidate sensors. There have been final selections of the
winning contractors in 1999 and 2000. The Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) contractor was selected
in early 1999. The...
...
insights regarding productive and unproductive activities in an online world?
In the late nineties, online traffic and the total amount of business
conducted through theInternet were growing rapidly ... tangible), and the type of electronic
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labor, and where t is the number of years in business. t is included inthe model to
control for the maturity of a company. Companies operating intheInternet ... leverage the new Internet economy.
The key criterion used in this study is the type of product or service a firm offers
on the Internet. Even though the emerging academic literature on Internet...
... action, the speaker and
he=rer mutually believe that executing plan P will result
in the hearer acquiring the required information, but, since
only the hearer is actually executing the plan, the ... result in identification of the intended referent, and in
the case of the S[ action, the plan is simply to do nothing,
because the referent of the term is already mutually known.
This is not the ... knowledge.
Since there are two dimensions relevant to ,:haracteriz-
ing concept activation actions, it is possible to define four
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Some Pragmatic Issuesinthe Planning of Definite and Indefinite...
... Pygmies draw drinking water directly from natural springs in Ituri forest
47Water Issuesinthe Democratic Republic of the Congo
Work in progress: construction of a retaining headwall inthe village ... Precambrian crystalline basement
rocks (including basalt and granite) cropping out
in the mountainous terrain along the Albertine Rift
from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Edward, as well as
in the lower Congo ... to the long-term sustainability of major
infrastructure investments inthe water sector.
The immediate challenge on the ground is the
non-application of basic zoning principles and
land delineation...
... by using theInternet Protocol (IP) address of
one of the data recipients.
Social Engineering
Social engineering is the increasingly prevalent act of
obtaining confidential network security ... Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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A Beginner’s Guide to
Network Security
An Introduction to the Key SecurityIssues for the E-Business Economy
With the explosion of the public Internet ... communicate
how they plan to protect their customers.
In addition to protecting their customers, corporations
must protect their employees and partners from security
breaches. The Internet, intranets,...
... occur if, in a time of increasing load,
an increasing fraction of the link bandwidth was being used by
push web data that was never requested by the user.
2.4 Building inthe right incentives
Given ... Be-
cause users intheInternet do not have information about other
users against whom they are competing for scarce bandwidth,
the incentive mechanisms cannot come from the other users,
but ... shows the
UDP sending rate, as a fraction of the bandwidth on the R1-R2
link. The dashed line shows the UDP arrival rate at the router
for the entire simulation set, the dotted line shows the UDP
goodput,...
... evaluating online infor-
mation. Inthe past, the greatest problem facing
researchers was finding information; now, with the
advent of the Internet, the greatest problem is evaluat-
ing the vast ... in determining the accuracy
of online information. It is therefore important to
develop specific research practices for Internet searches
that take the structure and purpose of theInternet into
account. ... self-reported confidence in their
Internet searching abilities to determine if students
who were more Internet- savvy” were better able to
critically evaluate information on the Internet. The cat-
egories...
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public,
and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by
both Academies and the Institute ... that the FDA has agreed to include information
about the lack of activity of anti-EGFR antibodies inthe setting of KRAS
mutations inthe labels (i.e., while the indication remains broad, the ... that clinical response to these drugs
correlated with the degree of inhibition achieved inthe assays (Smith et al.,
2004). “Shouldn’t we be individualizing drug dosing to attain sufficient
inhibition...