As the electronic security sector converges with IT security, traditional security systems integrators are coming under pressure to redefine their business models. By not acting now, a traditional SI may see their addressable market share snapped up by aggressive IT entrants who absorb the most profitable projects and customers, leaving security SIs to fight over lower-margin work such as the inst

Brands have become one of the most discussed phenomena of marketing research in recent years. They are ubiquitous in the marketplace and virtually impossible for consumers to avoid. The corporate obsession with brands is likely to continue since the wealth of “how-to-do-branding” strategy handbooks suggest that brands are the magical panacea for creating superior business performance. In short, we

Auger-electron spectroscopy (AES) has developed to a major tool for chemical identification and for characterization of solid surfaces. As first emphasized by Lander[1], it can also be used a spectroscopy for gaining information on occupied electron states and their interactions. However, AES gives a far less direct picture of the occupied states than does, for example, angle-resolved photoemissio

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In Mozambique, despite considerable investments in the promotion of drinking water supplies, the access to quality water of sufficient quantity for the majority of people is still far from optimal. Current official figures report that nearly half of the country´s population and about 45 per cent of urban residents do not have access to safe water. As a result of poor performance or absence of publ

We consider ultra light-weight constructions of message authentication in hardware applications like RFID. We propose a new type of constructions that will be less costly to implement in hardware, compared to any previous construction. These constructions are based on the framework of universal hash functions, Toeplitz matrices and

In this paper we generalize some basic applications of Gröbner bases in commutative polynomial rings to the non-commutative case. We define a non-commutative elimination order. Methods of finding the intersection of two ideals are given. If both the ideals are monomial we deduce a finitely written basis for their intersection. We find the kernel of a homomorphism, and decide membership of the imag

Scholarship speech prepared for the AWAPATENT Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research in the Area of Intellectual Property Rights, Operaterassen Stockholm, Jan. 27th, 2009

This paper explores market integration in Lao PDR, focusing on the beer market. At the time of analysis, the Lao beer market exhibited some highly unusual features that facilitate our exploration. Beer Lao, the domestic beer brand, was completely dominant in the market – importation of beer was not allowed, and informal (illegal) imports were of very limited importance. Beer Lao was produced in on