FIViz: Forensics Investigation through Visualization for Malware in Internet of Things

Adoption of the Internet of Things for the realization of smart cities in various domains has been pushed by the advancements in Information Communication and Technology. Transportation, power delivery, environmental monitoring, and medical applications are among the front runners when it comes to leveraging the benefits of IoT for improving services through modern decision support systems. Though with the enormous usage of the Internet of Medical Things, security and privacy become intrinsic issues, thus adversaries can exploit these devices or information on these devices for malicious intents. These devices generate and log large and complex raw data which are used by decision support systems to provide better care to patients. Investigation of these enormous and complicated data from a victim’s device is a daunting and time-consuming task for an investigator. Different feature-based frameworks have been proposed to resolve this problem to detect early and effectively the access logs to better assess the event. But the problem with the existing approaches is that it forces the investigator to manually comb through collected data which can contain a huge amount of irrelevant data. These data are provided normally in textual form to the investigators which are too time-consuming for the investigations even if they can utilize machine learning or natural language processing techniques. In this paper, we proposed a visualization-based approach to tackle the problem of investigating large and complex raw data sets from the Internet of Medical Things. Our contribution in this work is twofold. Firstly, we create a data set through a dynamic behavioral analysis of 400 malware samples. Secondly, the resultant and reduced data set were then visualized most feasibly. This is to investigate an incident easily. The experimental results show that an investigator can investigate large amounts of data in an easy and time-efficient manner through the effective use of visualization techniques.

Hybrid Ćirić Type Graphic Υ,Λ-Contraction Mappings with Applications to Electric Circuit and Fractional Differential Equations

In this paper, we initiate the notion of Ciric type rational graphic Υ , Λ -contraction pair mappings and provide some new related common fixed point results on partial b-metric spaces endowed with a directed graph G. We also give examples to illustrate our main results. Moreover, we present some applications on electric circuit equations and fractional differential equations.

On (ϕ, ψ)-Metric Spaces with Applications

The aim of this article is to introduce the notion of a ϕ,ψ-metric space, which extends the metric space concept. In these spaces, the symmetry property is preserved. We present a natural topology τϕ,ψ in such spaces and discuss their topological properties. We also establish the Banach contraction principle in the context of ϕ,ψ-metric spaces and we illustrate the significance of our main theorem by examples. Ultimately, as applications, the existence of a unique solution of Fredholm type integral equations in one and two dimensions is ensured and an example in support is given.

Climate Change Impacts on Reservoir Inflow in the Prairie Pothole Region: A Watershed Model Analysis

The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is known for its hydrologically complex landscape with a large number of pothole wetlands. However, most watershed-scale hydrologic models that are applied in this region are incapable of representing the dynamic nature of contributing area and fill-spill processes affected by pothole wetlands. The inability to simulate these processes represents a critical limitation for operators and flood forecasters and may hinder the management of large reservoirs. We used a modified version of the soil water assessment tool (SWAT) model capable of simulating the dynamics of variable contributing areas and fill-spill processes to assess the impact of climate change on upstream inflows into the Shellmouth reservoir (also called Lake of the Prairie), which is an important reservoir built to provide multiple purposes, including flood and drought mitigation. We calibrated our modified SWAT model at a daily time step using SUFI-2 algorithm within SWAT-CUP for the period 1991–2000 and validated for 2005–2014, which gave acceptable performance statistics for both the calibration (KGE = 0.70, PBIAS = −13.5) and validation (KGE = 0.70, PBIAS = 21.5) periods. We then forced the calibrated model with future climate projections using representative concentration pathways (RCPs; 4.5, 8.5) for the near (2011–2040) and middle futures (2041–2070) of multiple regional climate models (RCMs). Our modeling results suggest that climate change will lead to a two-fold increase in winter streamflow, a slight increase in summer flow, and decrease spring peak flows into the Shellmouth reservoir. Investigating the impact of climate change on the operation of the Shellmouth reservoir is critically important because climate change could present significant challenges to the operation and management of the reservoir.

CHEMODNERVATION FOR CERVICAL DYSTONIA: A CLINICAL REVIEW

Using Peer Comparison in Developing Iraqi EFL Learners’ Note-taking Skill

يعتبر تدوين الملاحظات من المهارات الأساسية في الحياة الأكاديمية. يبدو الأمر بسيطا وسهلا لكن الحقيقة ليست! تدوين الملاحظات يعني كيفية تدوين أفكار وأفكار ومعلومات الآخرين بأسلوبك الخاص بطريقة تلخص جوهر رسالته من أجل توفير أكبر قدر ممكن من المعلومات المفيدة للحد من ضغط الحفظ على الدماغ عن طريق وجود الملاحظات في يديك.    لاحظ الباحث كمدرس للغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية وزملائه أن متعلم اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية يعاني من مشاكل في إستراتيجيات تدوين الملاحظات وأيضا هذا الضعف تمت الموافقة عليه في الملاحظات المحلية التي تدرس الدراسات السابقة. كإجراء علاجي لهذه المشكلة ، اختار الباحث استراتيجيات مقارنة الأقران لتحسين مهارات تدوين الملاحظات لمتعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية.قام الباحث ببناء استبيان مغلق لا ، نعم ، لاستطلاع عينة من آراء وعلماء متعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية المتقدمين حول تدوين الملاحظات وتعلم الأقران ومقارنة الأقران.    أوضحت النتائج أن اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية تحتاج إلى ممارسة مكثفة لاستراتيجيات تدوين الملاحظات ، ولا يمانعون في العمل بين الأقران ، وتطور مقارنة الأقران مهاراتهم في تدوين الملاحظات

SIMPLER MAGIC: Synthesis and Mapping of In-Memory Logic Executed in a Single Row to Improve Throughput

SIMPLER MAGIC: Synthesis and Mapping of In-Memory Logic Executed in a Single Row to Improve Throughput

Not in Name Alone: A Memristive Memory Processing Unit for Real In-Memory Processing

Not in Name Alone: A Memristive Memory Processing Unit for Real In-Memory Processing