Hardcoded vulnerability detection approach for IoT device firmware by Chao MU, Xin WANG, Ming YANG, Heng ZHANG, Zhenya CHEN, Xiaoming WU

“…With the popularization of IoT devices, more and more valuable data is generated.Analyzing and mining big data based on IoT devices has become a hot topic in the academic and industrial circles in recent years.However, due to the lack of necessary detection and protection methods, many IoT devices have serious information security risks.In particular, device hard-coded information is closely related to system encryption and decryption, identity authentication and other functions, which can provide confidentiality protection for core data.Once this information is exploited by malicious attackers, serious consequences such as sensitive information leakage, backdoor attacks, and unauthorized logins will occur.In response to this problem, a multi-type character recognition and positioning scheme was designed and a hard-coded vulnerability detection method in executable files was proposed based on the study of the characteristics of hard-coded vulnerabilities in IoT devices.The proposed method extracted the firmware of IoT devices and filtered all executable files as the source to be analyzed.Then, a solution to identify and locate three types of hard-coded characters was provided.Further, the reachability of the function, where the hard-coded character was located, was analyzed according to the function call relationship.Meanwhile, the instruction heterogeneity was mitigated by an intermediate representation (IR) model.The character and parameter hard-coded values was obtained through a data flow analysis approach.A symbolic execution method was devised to determine the trigger conditions of the hard-coded vulnerabilities, and then the vulnerability detection result was output.On the one hand, the proposed method introduced the method of symbolic execution based on the use of the intermediate representation model, which eliminated the dependency of instruction architecture and reduces the false positive rate of vulnerabilities; On the other hand, this method can integrate characters, files, and cryptographic implementation to realize the different characteristics of three types of hard-coded characters, which increased the coverage of vulnerability detection and improves the versatility of the detection method.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect three types of hard-coded vulnerabilities of characters, files and cryptographic implementation in various IoT devices, and has good detection accuracy, which can provide certain guidance for the deployment of subsequent security protection technologies.…”
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MONEY LAUNDERING: MACROECONOMIC ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CURRENT TREND IN UKRAINE by O. Y. Korystin, I. P. Mihus, N. P. Svyrydiuk, Ya. O. Likhovitskyy, О. M. Mitina

“…The grounds for determining the priorities of further state policy in the sphere of anti-money laundering have been formed, for the national financial monitoring of relevant benchmarks of increased risk of financial transactions in specific sectors of the economy and possible further methodological use of sectoral analysis (with wider coverage of the national economic sectors) money laundering risks. …”
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The Nogai Nomads in the XVIII–XIX centuries: the choice between the Russian State and the Ottoman Empire by A. T. Dzhumagulova

“…The relevance of the study is due to the little-studied and fragmentary coverage of the problem of Nogai society’s choice between Russian and Ottoman citizenship in the XVIII-XIX centuries. …”
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Definition of the marketing management categorical apparatus by N.M. Korsikova, K.B. Kozak

“…The presented study is devoted to the coverage of the issues related to the development of the potential of a modern employee. …”
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Advancing Future Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Medicines by Incorporating The Patient Voice Into Patient-Centered Holistic Measurement Strategies for Clinical and Real-World Studie... by Diana Rofail, Michael Chladek, Betsy Williams, Nick Patel, William B. Nowell, Stella Karantzoulis, Oren Levy

“…Abstract Introduction This analysis sought to understand the patient experience in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and to assess whether commonly used clinical outcome assessments (COAs) reliably and validly capture that experience. …”
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Impact of disease information (Ebola and COVID-19) on the pharmaceutical sector in Russia and USA by E. A. Fedorova, D. O. Afanasyev, A. V. Sokolov, M. P. Lazarev

“…Objective: identification of the relationship between the news coverage of global diseases and the dynamics of the return on shares of the pharmaceutical sector for Russia and the United States.Material and methods. …”
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Innovation in Comprehensive Transportation Network Planning in the Context of National Spatial Development: Institutional Constraints and Policy Responses by Huanyu Yang, Wei Huang, Dong Yang, Ying Jiang

“…., ecological sensitivity veto power) can reduce planning conflicts effectively, while adaptive governance models enhance land use efficiency and stakeholder collaboration. Key findings reveal a significant negative correlation (R² = 0.75) between ecological protection redline (EPR) coverage and transportation network density, underscoring the necessity for differentiated governance strategies in high-conflict regions. …”
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Effects of Eucalyptus Tree Plantations and Croplands on Selected Soil Physicochemical Properties in Lake Bunyonyi Sub-Catchment of South-Western Uganda. by Byamukama, Simon

“…This study, therefore, investigated the effect of Eucalyptus spp. on soil physicochemical properties in the Lake Bunyonyi sub-catchment. Two land use types (EPs and cropland) were used for comparison in the study area. …”
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L’objectivité en trompe-l’œil by Maria Holubowicz

“…Le Figaro’s framing of the creation of France’s Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity, and Mutually Supportive Development (MIIIN) in 2007, under president Nicolas Sarkozy, shows that this right-leaning newspaper uses different types of journalistic artifacts to objectify coverage of this event and give the impression of encouraging debate about it by applying a strategy based on the appearance of non-engagement of today's general press.…”
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Aspecte practice în refacerea morfologiei și a funcționalității aparatului dento-maxilar prin restaurări protetice de acoperire (Partea I) by Mădălina Adriana Malița, Mihai Burlibaşa, Marine Perikhanyan, Margareta Chilianu, Viorel Ştefan Perieanu, Simion Gheorghe Dumitru, Mircea Popescu, Florentina Căminișteanu, Cristina Maria Șerbănescu, Ion Alexandru Popovici, Mihaela Chirilă

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Long read whole genome sequencing-based discovery of structural variants and their role in aetiology of non-syndromic autism spectrum disorder in India by Jhanvi Shah, Debasrija Mondal, Deepika Jain, Priti Mhatre, Ketan Patel, Anand Iyer, Manoj Pandya, Bhargavi Menghani, Gayatri Dave, Jayesh Sheth, Frenny Sheth, Shweta Ramdas, Harsh Sheth

“…SVs were called using five variant callers- Sniffles2, cuteSV, NanoVar, SVIM, and npInv, and annotated using AnnotSV. …”
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Gantry-based pencil beam scanning proton therapy for uveal melanoma: IMPT versus proton arc therapy by Hang Qi, Lei Hu, Sheng Huang, Yen-Po Lee, Francis Yu, Qing Chen, Yunjie Yang, Minglei Kang, Huifang Zhai, Milo Vermeulen, Andy Shim, Peter Park, Xuanfeng Ding, Jun Zhou, David H. Abramson, Jasmine H. Francis, Charles B. Simone, Christopher A. Barker, Haibo Lin

“…Treatment quality for both plans was evaluated daily using CBCT-generated synthetic CT. Target coverage, conformity, and mean/maximum doses to adjacent organs were assessed. …”
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Assessment of Urban Landscape Patterns to Measure the Effects of Urbanization on Landscape Structure (Case Study: Kermanshah City) by Gholam Reza Sabzghabaei, Soolmaz Dashti, Kaveh Jafarzadeh, Mojgan Bazmara Baleshti

“…In the next step (step processing) primary land use was marked. That human land use, wasteland and without cover, tree cover, agricultural and water according to the understanding of the area. …”
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Uptake of voluntary counselling and testing among young people participating in an HIV prevention trial: comparison of opt-out and opt-in strategies. by Kathy Baisley, Aoife M Doyle, John Changalucha, Kaballa Maganja, Deborah Watson-Jones, Richard Hayes, David Ross

“…As treatment becomes more widely available, strategies to expand VCT coverage are critically important. We compare VCT uptake using two delivery strategies (opt-in and opt-out) within the MEMA kwa Vijana trial in 20 communities in northwest Tanzania.…”
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Optimizing Access Point Placement in Industrial IoT: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Q-Learning Verification and Signal Heatmap Visualization by Manash Mahanta, Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn, Kenta Umebayashi

“…The performance metrics used are average received signal strength (RSS), average interference, and signal coverage across the industrial floor. …”
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Certain aspects of the implementation of imputed insurance of environmental risks in the Russian Federation by T. A. Belousova, N. V. Kirillova, V. S. Gudkovа, L. S. Krutova

“…Purpose: of this article is to justify the implementation of insurance of environmental risks in the Russian Federation in the form of a pilot project based on imputed insurance with the definition of the main conditions of insurance coverage.Methods: the presented work uses statistical and predictive methods and the integrated approach for processing data on natural, climatic and human activity risks. …”
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A discrete-time split-state framework for multi-state modeling with application to describing the course of heart disease by Ming Ding, Haiyi Chen, Feng-Chang Lin

“…In the simulation study, we simulated a Markov process with an exponential distribution, a semi-Markov process with a Weibull distribution, and a non-Markov process with an exponential distribution. The coverage rate of transition rates estimated using our framework was 94% for the Markov process and 93% for the non-Markov process. …”
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Assessing soil erosion and sediment yield in the Bou Rouina watershed (Northeast of Algeria): a RUSLE-SDR modeling approach by Zineb Youcef Khodja, Kamel Khanchoul, Robert Altschul, Abdeldjalil Belkendil, Zahra Djamai

“…Key factors including rainfall erosivity (R-factor), soil erodibility (K-factor), slope length-steepness factor (LS-factor), and vegetation coverage factor (C-factor) were computed and mapped using GIS tools. …”
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A Cross-sectional Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Cancer Preventive Vaccines among Undergraduate Medical Students by Prithvi B. Petkar, Rahul S. Baghel, Harshal G. Mendhe

“…A semi-structured, validated and pilot-tested questionnaire (Google Forms) was used to collect the data. The collected data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0. …”
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Whole genome sequence of a virulent and multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain MD02 isolated from a diabetic foot ulcer in Uganda by Danladi Makeri, Emmanuel Eilu, Martin Odoki, Ismail Abiola Adebayo, Reuben Maghembe, Musoba Abubakar, Reagan Muhwezi, Theophilus Pius, Priscilla Peter Dilli, Saheed Adekunle Akinola, Ezera Agwu

“…Data description : Genomic DNA of S. aureus strain MD02 was extracted and sequenced using the Illumina platform, generating high-quality paired-end reads with an average genome coverage of 32.6×. …”
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