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Anti-attack algorithm of cloud storage attribute base based on dynamic authorized access

Cloud storage attribute libraries usually store a large amount of sensitive data such as personal information and trade secrets. Attackers adopt diverse and complex attack methods to target the cloud storage attribute database, which makes the defense work more challenging. In order to realize the secure storage of information, an attribute based cloud storage anti-attack algorithm based on dynamic authorization access is proposed. According to the characteristic variables of the sample, the data correlation matrix is calculated, and the principal component analysis method is adopted to reduce the dimension of the data, build the anti-attack code model, simulate the dynamic authorization access rights, and calculate the packet loss rate according to the anti-attack flow. Design the initialization stage, cluster stage and cluster center update stage to realize the attack prevention of cloud storage attribute database. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can accurately classify the anti-attack code, has good packet processing ability, relatively short page request time, and anti-attack success rate is higher than 90%, which can effectively ensure the stability of the algorithm.

Guide Development for eHealth Interventions Targeting People With a Low Socioeconomic Position: Participatory Design Approach.

People with a low socioeconomic position (SEP) are less likely to benefit from eHealth interventions, exacerbating social health inequalities. Professionals developing eHealth interventions for this group face numerous challenges. A comprehensive guide to support these professionals in their work could mitigate these inequalities. We aimed to develop a web-based guide to support professionals in the development, adaptation, evaluation, and implementation of eHealth interventions for people with a low SEP. This study consisted of 2 phases. The first phase involved a secondary analysis of 2 previous qualitative and quantitative studies. In this phase, we synthesized insights from the previous studies to develop the guide's content and information structure. In the second phase, we used a participatory design process. This process included iterative development and evaluation of the guide's design with 11 professionals who had experience with both eHealth and the target group. We used test versions (prototypes) and think-aloud testing combined with semistructured interviews and a questionnaire to identify design requirements and develop and adapt the guide accordingly. The secondary analysis resulted in a framework of recommendations for developing the guide, which was categorized under 5 themes: development, reach, adherence, evaluation, and implementation. The participatory design process resulted in 16 requirements on system, content, and service aspects for the design of the guide. For the system category, the guide was required to have an open navigation strategy leading to more specific information and short pages with visual elements. Content requirements included providing comprehensible information, scientific evidence, a user perspective, information on practical applications, and a personal and informal tone of voice. Service requirements involved improving suitability for different professionals, ensuring long-term viability, and a focus on implementation. Based on these requirements, we developed the final version of "the inclusive eHealth guide." The inclusive eHealth guide provides a practical, user-centric tool for professionals aiming to develop, adapt, evaluate, and implement eHealth interventions for people with a low SEP, with the aim of reducing health disparities in this population. Future research should investigate its suitability for different end-user goals, its external validity, its applicability in specific contexts, and its real-world impact on social health inequality.

88‐3: Late‐News Paper: IGZO Backplane for Full‐color Electrophoretic Display

E Ink's Gallery™ 3 with SDTC's IGZO backplane are being developed to have short page update time and good color image quality for full‐color EPD. Since the backplane for Gallery™ 3 must be driven by high voltage approximately close to +/‐ 30V, stable TFT characteristics and low TFT off‐leakage under high voltage application are important. SDTC's IGZO TFT was confirmed to be superior in terms of stability against high voltage application. An 8‐inch 300dpi Gallery™ 3, which is now in mass production, achieves page update time of less than 1 second in full color mode and 0.35 seconds in monochrome mode. Beyond the IGZO TFT employed in the 8‐ inch Gallery™ 3 panel, we have also proved the IGZO TFT with further high mobility, whose mobility is 3‐times higher than that of the current 8” panel, developed at SDTC has excellent characteristics stability against high voltage application as well, and it is currently being developed for mass production of EPD. We are also developing flexible IGZO EPD and large screen size IGZO signage EPD as the future technologies.

Foundations, Market Failures and the Funding of New Music

In 1965, a short article entitled ‘On the Performing Arts: An Anatomy of their Economic Problems’ appeared in the American Economic Review, the flagship journal of the American Economic Association.1 Written by two Princeton-affiliated economists, William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen, the article laid out in eight short pages a powerful explanation for why the operating costs of so many performing arts organizations consistently overran their earnings, and why this tendency had become more pronounced over time. The problem was not that lavish budgets were being spent on productions, nor that musicians’ unions had wrung too many concessions from management. Rather, the problem was more prosaic, having to do with ‘differential rates of growth in the economy’.2 To illustrate the argument, Baumol and Bowen asked readers to perform a thought experiment: ‘Think of an economy divided into two sectors: one in which productivity is rising and another where productivity is stable.’3 For the sake of simplicity, they explicitly assumed a number of useful fictions: that labour can easily and frictionlessly move between the two sectors; that wage increases across the board will keep pace with productivity growth (a standard if problematic assumption in modern economic theory);4 and that the monetary supply is sufficiently controlled to maintain overall price stability. What, given these assumptions, is the outcome of such a stark split in the economy? In the productive sector, the increase in wages that workers receive will be offset by increased productivity. In the stagnant sector, wages will rise but output will not. And if an organization is to avoid bankruptcy, the only way to do so is by raising prices to cover the rise in labour costs. (Remember, one of Baumol and Bowen’s working assumptions is that wage increases will keep pace with productivity growth, in both productive and stagnant sectors.) Yet this solution to the problem creates another one, since over time prices in the unproductive sector will increase at a much faster rate than those in the productive one, making the products of the former unaffordable to an increasing number of workers.

The Condition of Music: Anglophone Influences in the Poetry of Shao Xunmei

The Condition of Music: Anglophone Influences in the Poetry of Shao Xunmei

The Explosion of God's Heart: Entering the Inner Life of the Paschal Mystery

The Explosion of God's Heart:Entering the Inner Life of the Paschal Mystery Belden Lane (bio) INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN CHASE Last October, Belden Lane lost his son Jon after an unexpected and incomprehensible 9-month bout with cancer. As Belden let me know, the following Perspective shares something of his wrestling with God as a result of Jon's inexplicable death. The piece deals with the implications of Trinitarian theology, focusing on God's deep personal investment in the suffering of creation. This focus pinpoints how one's image of God can make a profound change in the face of the dark mystery of suffering. Belden's idea of "the explosion of God's heart" is, of course, communicated through the power of words. Still, this reflection from Belden reflects something of what it means for Sacred Mystery to dwell among us even in the mists of darkness that are beyond words. As I first read this short essay, I realized that we needed to publish these words. In three short pages, Belden creates a highly personal piece that, even in its obvious pain and slow movement toward healing, has a universal quality as well. He weaves various disciplines together with threads of experience that he describes with much tenderness and truth. The Perspective is an example of teaching spirituality (see Barbara Quinn Presidential Address essay) from the depths of grief and loss. Perhaps we all need to give ourselves radical permission to write and teach in this way. Blessings to you and your family, Belden, as you seek and find "home at last" amid your ambiguous grief and the exploding heart of your God. I believe that Emily Dickinson, too, knew something of the heart and of the explosion: The Heart asks Pleasure – first – And then – Excuse from Pain – And then – those little Anodynes That deaden Suffering – And then – to go to sleep – And then – if it should be [End Page 71] The will of its Inquisitor The privilege to die –1 PERSPECTIVE BY BELDEN LANE "Two thousand years ago marks the Incarnation of God in Jesus, but before that there was the Incarnation through light, water, land, sun, moon, stars, plants, trees, fruit, birds, serpents, cattle, fish, and "every kind of wild beast" according to the Genesis creation story (1:3–25)." —Richard Rohr2 "In creation God comes to know himself, that is, he realizes himself as the creative principle of the other. Creation, then, is 'another God' in the sense that it is God manifested in otherness." —Bernard McGinn, summarizing John (the Scot) Eriugena3 This time of year our golden retriever Joey and I sit each morning among the trees in the gazebo in our back yard. We ponder the mystery of God's bringing these tall oaks into being—like this dog, this man—so as to mirror a divine grandeur, stillness, tenacity, and interdependence. How is it, I wonder, that God comes to know himself through the creatures he's made? The trees, the dog, and myself are clearly other than God, yet we can't be said to exist outside of God.4 "This is what I'm like," God must say to himself. "Yet it's also what I'm not like!" To what extent is God stretched, even laid open, by what he sees in us his creatures? Is there even an echo in God's heart of what churns now within the restiveness of my soul? I've been asking questions like these this year since the sudden death of our 40-year-old son to cancer. It's left us with a 5-year-old granddaughter full of questions of her own. Like fault lines in the earth, an event like this can bring a startling shift in one's understanding of God. I was raised to think of the Divine as all-powerful, ethereal and distant, far above me. Yet I was assured that the prayers of the faithful could persuade him to break into the world now and then with miraculous interventions. But my prayers don't seem to have worked this year. God hasn't miraculously intervened on our behalf. Well-meaning people offer...

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Reviewed by: Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life by Jennifer Jensen Wallach Beth Fowler Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life. By Jennifer Jensen Wallach. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. Pp. x, 225. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-4422-5390-2.) “We turned survival food into a delicacy,” director Byron Hurt proclaims in his 2012 documentary, Soul Food Junkies. African American chefs have indeed turned soul food, which describes African American cuisine from the [End Page 159] South and its northern urban adaptations, into a celebrated part of the epicurean world over the past thirty years after centuries of denigration. Many examinations of African American foodways have cropped up to accompany the boom in restaurants, cookbooks, and celebrity chefs devoted to remaking and popularizing soul food, but Jennifer Jensen Wallach’s Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life takes a different, and decidedly refreshing, approach. Using a wealth of secondary literature across fields of interest within African American studies, as well as cookbooks, dining and etiquette manuals, and the stories and oral histories of people who have shaped these foodways, she has created a unique look at African American history from the perspectives of growing, selling, cooking, and eating. The book offers a necessarily broad survey of both historical shifts and the ways that food and dining cultures are intertwined with politics, social movements, and everyday life to the extent that deep analysis of any one connection will have to be pursued elsewhere. But Wallach has provided a fascinating introduction to the examination of African American foodways by revealing how familiar stories and arguments may be understood through the lenses of agricultural processes and dining customs. The book begins with a look at West African foods, recipes, and dining traditions, and the hybrids that emerge through globalization, particularly within the context of the transatlantic slave trade. This question of what constitutes African American food and dining practices is one that is asked throughout each chapter, but Wallach mainly focuses on thematic studies that show how evolving relationships to cooking, growing, and dining reflect the consequences of, and reactions to, living within white supremacist structures in what will become the United States. The way that she traces women’s work as cooks in white kitchens during enslavement and into the post–Civil War period, for instance, allows readers to understand how wages and working conditions could be stifled even as the meals Black women created were celebrated as stylish southern cuisine by the early twentieth century. Similarly, the cooperative grocery stores and luncheonettes opened in Black neighborhoods during the Depression as a means of feeding communities ravaged by economic downfall reappear during the 1950s and 1960s. The food drive was run by members of the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther party, who saw how continuing racial injustice led many Black families to face the threat of hunger, even within a supposedly affluent society. As Wallach traces threads that detail how Black Americans used food and dining culture to both define their own identities and oppose assimilationism and white-dominated institutions, she also shows how this history cannot be neatly divided into events and time periods detached from one another, even if the brief anecdotes she provides often leave the reader wanting to learn more. The book’s penultimate chapter, which moves from diner sit-ins in the 1950s and 1960s to Black vegetarian movements in the 1970s, is most indicative of this issue, as the many intriguing subjects she tackles within a civil rights movement framework do not always comprise a clear narrative or argumentative line. But Getting What We Need Ourselves is a book that is meant to be [End Page 160] expansive, despite its short page length, and it ultimately succeeds in establishing unexpected connections among familiar events. It provides an excellent introduction to the study of foodways and addition to cultural histories of African American life. Beth Fowler Wayne State University Copyright © 2021 The Southern Historical Association

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia. (Part 2) (The translation and original text of the article are presented)

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia’s guidelines, facts must be backed up by reliable sources that reflect the full spectrum of views on the topic. Although citations lie at the heart of Wikipedia, little is known about how users interact with them. To close this gap, we built client-side instrumentation for logging all interactions with links leading from English Wikipedia articles to cited references during one month, and conducted the first analysis of readers’ interactions with citations. We find that overall engagement with citations is low: about one in 300 page views results in a reference click (0,29% overall; 0,56% on desktop; 0,13% on mobile). Matched observational studies of the factors associated with reference clicking reveal that clicks occur more frequently on shorter pages and on pages of lower quality, suggesting that references are consulted more commonly when Wikipedia itself does not contain the information sought by the user. Moreover, we observe that recent content, open access sources, and references about life events (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) are particularly popular. Taken together, our findings deepen our understanding of Wikipedia’s role in a global information economy where reliability is ever less certain, and source attribution ever more vital.

The Moral Contract, Sympathy and Becoming Human: A Response to Michael Hand’s A Theory of Moral Education

Michael Hand argues that at least some moral standards can be robustly justified and that because of this educators can legitimately cultivate subscription to those standards and teach with the intention of bringing about belief in their justification (that is to say, teach ‘directively’). The first claim depends on Hand's presentation and defence of a version of moral contractarianism in Chapter Five of A Theory of Moral Education (2018). Given that the well-trodden objections to moral contract theory have taken up so many pages of philosophical argument, I confess to finding it somewhat surprising that in only a few short pages Hand feels that he has demonstrated that the contractarian argument is ‘beyond serious dispute’ (p. 69). He may well have achieved this; I will leave it to philosophers better versed in the various controversies to evaluate whether Hand has adequately responded to the most well-known objections. For my part, I would like to suggest a specifically educational objection to the contractarian position Hand advances. I propose to consider what the endeavour of educating into the moral contract would entail, and argue that Hand's position loses persuasive force precisely where one might imagine it most ‘counts’ educationally. I will then briefly elaborate an alternative approach to morality in an education centrally concerned not with the ‘transmission of knowledge’ but with becoming human.

An American Jeremiad: John C. Burnham and the History of Science Popularization

An American Jeremiad: John C. Burnham and the History of Science Popularization

Migration and the Making of Ireland by Bryan Fanning (review)

Book Reviews Migration and the Making of Ireland, Bryan Fanning (Dublin: University College Dublin Press/Preas Choláiste Ollscoile Bhaile Átha Cliath, 2018), 347 pages. While it is not universally acknowledged, as most people do not want to know, immigration and thus emigration is the big political question of our time. There is a sense in which it was always thus, since we found our way out of eastern Africa some 60 or 80 or more thousand years ago. This study attempts to look at our own tiny little corner of the flow of peoples and, by doing so, wittingly exposes the global nature of our island home. It would be difficult for a study to be more comprehensive, unless it was given a double or more hundred pages. Each paragraph is packed with information, duly footnoted and sourced to its lair in a reputable publication or study. The style is easy, direct and informative, so much so that you would wonder why it is not the regular bedside read of journalists and politicians, who see the question of immigration as a problem and that of emigration to be ignored. Yet, because of the cool and dispassionate exposition of the facts, it is unlikely to raise a storm in Leinster House or in the non-smoking back rooms of journalistic joint-chat. Facts do not an argument make, unless brought into the armoury of some other prejudicial ideology. Yet again, this is a book that is rich in facts. Not facts as just statistics, but as events that were and are embedded in our time and place. It is part history, part sociology and part cultural and political commentary, but so what? The study of life and existence is a happy mish-mash of all our divided disciplines, and to leave any one in the jar that is kept by the door is an act of stupid exclusion. But before these facts, there is the general exposition of the history of emigration and of immigration during our longish history. Following the introduction and a brief chapter masterfully telescoping thousands of years into a few short pages, we are taken on a roll through plantations and transplantations and then the stories of people from different cultures and religions, including the German Palatines, Jews, and Scottish settlers, leading on to the more recent immigrants, particularly Poles, Africans, Muslims from Studies • volume 108 • number 432 498 Winter 2019/20: Book Reviews different countries, our own journeys to America and elsewhere then and now, while not ignoring Latvians, Brazilians, Chinese, Indians, Filipinos and other nationalities, as well as dealing with the travails of refugees and asylum seekers in a measured and plainly readable way. It is difficult to see how anyone could set down in such a clear fashion the tangled story of those first thousands of years as is done in that opening chapter. Although ancient pre-history is the most embedded in the past of all, in recent years it is the most open to modern revision. This is because of the astounding new work being done on the DNA of bones and cadavers as they arise from beneath the bogs, or not. In one sense, it can only be a brave intrepid researcher who will enter this field, as it is always shifting, depending on each new discovery in both swamp and laboratory. On the other hand, it would be difficult to quibble with the direct provisional inclusions set down in this chapter. Later centuries provide their own difficulties, as different and more diffuse evidence arrives in great abundance. Again, this is handled with great sensitivity, analysing mountains of material with only a mouse of space in which to make sense of it. Not often understood is the author’s clear argument that the twelfth and thirteenth century Church was part of the Anglo-Norman cultural and political conquest, an argument which finds its own echo in a later chapter with his statement that ‘The Catholic Church preached a quietist doctrine of accommodation to English culture’; and while this is said in the context of the Irish in Britain, there is some evidence that it had a certain validity in the...

Work Opportunities: Stories by Teresa Milbrodt

Reviewed by: Work Opportunities: Stories by Teresa Milbrodt Kate Harlin (bio) Teresa Milbrodt. Work Opportunities: Stories. Portage Press. Work Opportunities, Teresa Milbrodt's new fiction collection asks what it means when our bodies, with all of their specific quirks, frailties, and imperfections, become the focal point of our livelihoods, our relationships, our lives, and finds answers alternately joyful and devastating. While it may be difficult, arguably, for someone to read "Fat Lady to Marry Skeleton Man: Tickets $0.25" and not envy the quiet self-assurance of four-hundred-pound retired sideshow act Cece, or to fail to admire the effortless cool of teen wheelchair user Zee in "Shoes," it is when the characters' senses of themselves and their bodies come into conflict that the stories eke out the most uncomfortable truths. When two small-mammal zoo-keepers begin an affair after the death of a beloved hedgehog, Milbrodt compares the intimacy of sex in a workplace to the less embodied—but perhaps equally vulnerable—intimacy of shared grief. In "Drug Dealers," a child observes his parents' futile search for a Fountain of Youth, a quest not to stave off death but to repulse the humiliating ways their bodies betray them as they age. Indeed, we are reminded throughout the collection that although it is possible to find times of relative peace and acceptance of our bodies as they are, the next bodily betrayal looms just around the corner. Milbrodt's collection is also quintessentially American. Not only does she pepper her stories with intentional geographical specificity, she also makes many of the jobs and their accompanying hazards manifest only as they are in an American context. Take, for instance, "See Aaron Burr's Foot," in which a father and son depend on a severed foot to divert tourists to their struggling North Carolina gas station. The foot, purchased at an estate sale for ten dollars and stored haphazardly in a messy back office, becomes a monument of sorts to the protagonist. The fact that it is not at all, of course, really Aaron Burr's foot reinforces the monument's meaning: that to imbue an individual man, body, or foot with too much narrative significance is a recipe for foolishness. This collection is the writer's first book-length foray into realism—sort of. While Bigfoot doesn't make an appearance, we do return to the sideshows. However, unlike Milbrodt's 2011 Bearded Women: Stories, 2018's Work Opportunities never leaves the realm of the possible. Yet from the trainers of film-set squirrels [End Page 189] and Siberian sled cats to the fire swallowers and great-aunts-for-hire, the characters that populate the worlds of this book are sideways, surreal, and startling without being wholly unbelievable. In each story, Milbrodt crafts, in just a few short pages, a world almost indistinguishable from our own, but where the characters, who would often live at the margins of the world we recognize, comfortably occupy the center. The narrators and protagonists of the stories fiercely enforce their control over their own narratives, and the reader must buy in to each of their peculiar skewed vantage points for the stories to pay off. "Box," one of the most provocative entries in the collection, serves as a kind of origin story for Taffy, a charismatic woman who, upon being evicted by her practical and resentful sister, finds success in homelessness. She offers the community a landmark and a common cause, and in return they offer her enough material comforts to survive. The narrator's frustrated bemusement, rooted in the utter logic of mainstream discourse about rewarding work rather than indulging laziness, threatens to drive her completely mad. And this, I think, is the great achievement of Work Opportunities: it throws into sharp relief the sickness at the center of efforts to standardize our work, our bodies, and our lives. Kate Harlin Kate Harlin is a PhD student at the University of Missouri studying contemporary American fiction. Copyright © 2018 University of Nebraska Press

Discrete Wavelet Transform Based Image Compression using Frequency Band Suppression and Throughput Enhancement

Discrete Wavelet Transform is an effective and important process in digital image processing. The Discrete Wavelet Transform is used for significant compression, segmentation, classification, image enhancement and image fusion of web images that are to be viewed in short page loading time with bandwidth as major constraint. The DWT provides spatial frequency information and the spatial location. The main advantage of this nature is that concurrent information helps us to reduce redundancy and increases the bandwidth more efficiently. The spatial locations of the image may or may not contain variations and at certain times may be constants also. A signal which is constant does not carry significant information. If the coefficients of constant signal are encoded along with other spatial location coefficients it is memory wastage. Discrete Wavelet Transform if applied to the image as a whole results in better frequency resolution and good spatial resolution. But still this spatial resolution is not that good. This work aims in improving the spatial resolution further. The image is segmented in space into small sub-images and Discrete Wavelet Transform is applied recursively to each and every sub image. Since the target image is spatially small in resolution as well, the same operation can be achieved with smaller Discrete Wavelet Transform Unit. Since there are only few pixels at any given processing time is faster and the bandwidth, throughput is high. Because of large throughput the entire operation can be pipelined and done in a serial manner. The proposed work reduces the number of DWT unit required for the process.

How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money. Bill Maurer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 176 pp. $19.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-5999-9.

How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money. Bill Maurer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 176 pp. $19.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-5999-9.

Technology Focus: Wellbore Tubulars (June 2016)

Technology Focus Today’s economic situation within our industry has been harsh, harder than any downturn I have witnessed during my 44 years in the industry. However, it has provided the environment to influence positively the forging, application, field trialing, and acceptance of innovative technologies within our industry. Recent oil-industry technical publications are filled with a wide variety of applications of models, tools, and techniques being developed and applied to the drilling, completion, intervention, and even wellbore-abandonment arenas, allowing us to be more efficient by driving costly nonproductive time out of our operations. While the development of innovative technologies is critical, their correct and cost-effective application is even more important. No matter how good, technically impressive, or even innovative a technology is, if its application is not operationally practical as well as cost-efficient, then in the end it is just a cute widget. The papers within this Wellbore Tubulars section focus on delivering efficiencies to us, converting nonproductive time into new dollars for the bottom line. These papers span the application of A 1000-m steerable drilling liner directionally drilled in through an unstable shale in the åsgard/ Midgard field in the Norwegian North Sea after multiple attempts to drill and case this same hole section failed. A subsea completion string that would provide efficient hydraulics during fracturing operations while ensuring mechanical and pressure integrity. This high-pressure/high-temperature system was developed to be the answer to extreme completion challenges within multiple deepwater Gulf of Mexico projects within the Jack and St. Malo field reservoirs. A drilling software that delivers operational surveillance in real time, assisting in the avoidance of stuck pipe and with application within a variety of drilling environments. The proposed software was tested with historical data sets from 36 stuck-pipe incidents in the Eagle Ford, Utica, Permian, and Gulf of Mexico. The paper contains discussion of case histories in several shale horizontal unconventional wells. The extended-reading references selected further explore various applications and evaluation techniques spanning tubular-application areas from completion intervention to casing remediation to drilling-challenge mitigation. These include case-history references to assist readers in expanding the applications knowledge within their wellbore-tubulars toolbox. We all strive to deliver quality well construction, production, intervention, and abandonment to our industry. During the evaluation of the writings to be included within these few short pages encapsulating the extensive base of information published that surrounds the application of wellbore tubulars, I was struck by the quality and diversity of information available. Therefore, the reader is encouraged to search further within the industry’s technical-paper and article archives in the OnePetro online library (www. onepetro.org) to explore additional aspects of wellbore tubulars and the tools and techniques that are currently available to responsibly apply and critique their applicability. JPT Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. SPE 175878 Steerable Drilling Liner Matches the Industry’s Common Theme Regarding Cost-Optimization Approaches and Minimizing Geomechanics-Related Challenges—Technology Overview, Applications, and Limitations by Wael El Sherbeny, Baker Hughes, et al. SPE 168271 Tubing-Retrievable Surface- Controlled Subsurface-Safety-Valve Floating-Flapper Remediation by B. Gary, Halliburton, et al. SPE/IADC 178780 Solid-Expandable Solution To Qualify Existing Nonsour- Service Production Casing by Jesus D. Contreras, ConocoPhillips, et al.

Editorial

This issue of SIGEVOLution is dedicated to the memory of John Holland, inventor of Genetic Algorithms, who sadly passed away on August 9th 2015. John's work will have touched all of us working in the field of Evolutionary Computing in some way big or small, from the PhD student just beginning to those who began work in the field at its inception. It was reading his book "Adaptation in Natural Artificial Systems" while I was an MSc student in 1994 that inspired me to go on to do first a Master's project and then a PhD in the area and I'm sure the same goes for so many other people reading this. It is clearly impossible to do justice to such a figure in the few short pages of this newsletter. My grateful thanks go to Una-May O-Reilly who has been hugely helpful in suggesting names and collecting material for this issue. We have tried to pay tribute by gathering together contributions from many of those who worked directly with John during his long and rich career. In addition, we have interviews and contributions from several of his former graduate students, people who were inspired by his classes, and those that went on to work with him. The newsletter also highlights some of the tributes that were paid in various forms of the media, including a radio programme, a recent book published to celebrate his 85th birthday, and a look back to an interview with him published in the SIGEVO newsletter in 2008. Interviews and contributions are presented here in no particular order. What ever you are currently working on in the broad, diverse and flourishing field of Evolutionary Computing today, it is doubtless underpinned by John's original ideas - I hope that you enjoy reading these insights into John the man and the scientist who paved the way for us!

How to choose the right statistical software?-a method increasing the post-purchase satisfaction.

Nowadays, we live in the "data era" where the use of statistical or data analysis software is inevitable, in any research field. This means that the choice of the right software tool or platform is a strategic issue for a research department. Nevertheless, in many cases decision makers do not pay the right attention to a comprehensive and appropriate evaluation of what the market offers. Indeed, the choice still depends on few factors like, for instance, researcher's personal inclination, e.g., which software have been used at the university or is already known. This is not wrong in principle, but in some cases it's not enough at all and might lead to a "dead end" situation, typically after months or years of investments already done on the wrong software. This article, far from being a full and complete guide to statistical software evaluation, aims to illustrate some key points of the decision process and introduce an extended range of factors which can help to undertake the right choice, at least in potential. There is not enough literature about that topic, most of the time underestimated, both in the traditional literature and even in the so called "gray literature", even if some documents or short pages can be found online. Anyhow, it seems there is not a common and known standpoint about the process of software evaluation from the final user perspective. We suggests a multi-factor analysis leading to an evaluation matrix tool, to be intended as a flexible and customizable tool, aimed to provide a clearer picture of the software alternatives available, not in abstract but related to the researcher's own context and needs. This method is a result of about twenty years of experience of the author in the field of evaluating and using technical-computing software and partially arises from a research made about such topics as part of a project funded by European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme 2011.

Laplante, J.Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2015. 302pp £60 ISBN 978–1782385547 (hbk)

Laplante, J.Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2015. 302pp £60 ISBN 978–1782385547 (hbk)

Technology Focus: Wellbore Tubulars (June 2015)

Technology Focus The roles of wellbore tubulars in delivering continued well integrity are diverse, critical, and congruent throughout the life of the well. Well integrity has been defined by the NORSOK Standard document as the “application of technical, operational, and organizational solutions to reduce risk of uncontrolled release of formation fluids throughout the life cycle of a well.” Wellbore tubulars are integral to providing these well-integrity barriers, whether they form the conduit for the primary barrier (the fluid column) within the well, such as the drillpipe, or comprise a well-barrier element such as casing or other tubulars associated with drilling, completion, production, intervention, or even abandonment. During the well-construction phase, the primary well barrier is typically the fluid column and its tubular conduits. Secondary well-barrier elements can be the in-situ formation, casing cement, casing, wellhead, high-pressure riser, or drilling blowout preventer. Subsequently, as the well matures over the next 30 years or more, the elements within the wellbore-tubular realm vary, but each continues to play a significant role in maintaining well integrity. Therefore, with more-complex high-pressure/high-temperature wells being drilled, the industry is adopting a more “life of the well” engineered approach in the area of wellbore-tubular design. The papers summarized within this section are focused on the various roles tubulars play during the life of the well, beginning with proactive application of innovative well monitoring during drilling operations to provide a dual role of the drillpipe by adding a layer of well-health surveillance during the drilling activities. The section’s focus continues with reviews of case histories outlining the application of drillpipe intervention systems successfully applied in the offshore west Africa arena and solutions to large-scale tubular failures within a mature field in Suriname’s Tambaredjo field. The additional-reading titles selected further explore various applications and evaluation techniques with case-history references to assist in expanding the reader’s wellbore-tubular knowledge toolbox. We all strive to deliver quality well construction, production, intervention, and abandonment to our industry. While evaluating papers for inclusion in these few short pages encapsulating the extensive base of information published that surrounds the application of wellbore tubulars, I was struck by the quality and diversity of information available. Therefore, the reader is encouraged to search further within the industry’s technical-paper and article archives to explore additional aspects of wellbore tubulars and the tools and techniques that are currently available and critique their applicability.

APhA2014: The power and promise of pharmacy

Welcome to Orlando! The magic you will discover here in the Orange County Convention Center will rival that of the nearby Magic Kingdom. Our theme this year—The Power and Promise of Pharmacy—is very appropriate. During the next few days, you will have an opportunity to network with fellow pharmacists and student pharmacists, exchange ideas, learn about new innovations and therapies, and grow as a professional. “Knowledge is power,” goes the old adage, and APhA2014 is packed with power. With more than 70 educational opportunities carefully developed by our education staff and APhA Academy members, there is truly something for everyone. From science to practice, the educational lineup provides many choices. This year we have programming to build your clinical knowledge and skills, as well as a track to learn more about provider status and innovative care delivery systems. We are particularly excited about our new Day of Science on Friday, March 28! The APhA2014 Exposition is another way to gain knowledge about treatments, tools, and innovations that will improve your professional practice. Wear comfortable shoes—you’ll spend hours exploring the floor! The “promise” of pharmacy is reflected in the many student pharmacists who will be attending APhA2014. They are the hope for tomorrow. We are especially proud of our many award winners. From Marilyn K. Speedie, PhD, BSPharm, this year’s Remington Honor Medalist, to the numerous outstanding award winners who are part of the APhA Academies, to the Pharmacy Today/Student Pharmacist One to One Patient Counseling awardees, the promise of pharmacy is being realized before our very eyes. Articles about these winners are in the pages of this publication. Read them, and when you see these people on the convention floor, talk to them. Get to know them. Emulate them. They are our pharmacy heroes. While I can’t list all of the many worthwhile things to do on this one short page, I can give you a few of the highlights. Don’t miss our Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall. Be part of the development of new policy at the House of Delegates meetings. And finally, let’s all celebrate our time in Florida together, poolside, at the Closing Reception on Monday evening, March 31. APhA2014 provides tools and information needed to meet the power and promise of pharmacy for our patients, colleagues, ourselves—and our profession. I look forward to spending this time with you at APhA2014!