MySQL claims to be the world's most popular open source database, and with good reason. It is free, runs on a wide variety of platforms, is relatively simple, easy to configure and performs well even under significant load. By comparison to some other popular database management systems, configuring it is quite simple, but there are still a sufficiently wide variety of security-relevant configuration issues to make securing it a challenge.

This Free PDF Ebooks is a brief outline of common attacks on MySQL and the steps that a MySQL administrator can take to defend against them.

MySQL AB actively maintain several versions of their database software, and determining which version to install can be somewhat confusing. From a security point of view the decision is further complicated by the fact that additional security features are often available in 'alpha' versions but not in the current 'production' version.

Virtual ligand screening has proven to be a successful strategy in drug design. An in house-developed procedure (HierDock), a coarse grain docking method followed by a fine grain search procedure, was used to determine the binding site for sugars in the outer membrane protein A in E.coli, a key interaction in the pathogenesis of neonatal meningitis. These results are being further extended in suggesting possible peptide antagonists and drugs for therapeutic strategies.

The increase, in recent years, in the size and efficiency of gas turbines burning natural gas in combined cycle has occurred against a background of tightening environmental legislation on the emission of nitrogen oxides. The higher turbine entry temperatures required for efficiency improvement tend to increase NOx production. First-generation emission control systems involved water injection and catalytic reduction and were relatively expensive to operate. Dry low-NOx combustion systems have therefore been developed but demand more primary air for combustion. This gives added incentive to the reduction of air requirements for cooling the combustor and turbine blading. This paper reviews the various approaches adopted by the main gas turbine manufacturers which are achieving very low levels of NOx emission from natural gas combustion. Further developments, however, are necessary for liquid fuels.

Our daily lives are shaped by a series of decision processes, ranging from very unimportant choices to life-changing judgments. The complexity of the decision processes increases tremendously when the decision-making takes place in a social context, i.e., when other human beings are directly involved in the decision. In such conditions the decision-maker not only tries to maximize his own utility, but also needs to take into account the interdependent nature of the situation. Information about others’ preferences, characteristics, and actions play an important role, and need to be thoroughly evaluated and predicted before making a decision. In this thesis we explore the neural correlates of two different types of social decision-making.

In the first experiment we investigate economic decision-making in the context of a two-player social exchange game. In order to maximize their overall and personal earnings, players need to cooperate and build up a trust relationship with their partner. Synchronized neural data is recorded from the two interacting brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In this thesis we present four main findings: (i) the neural correlates of strategic uncertainty and how it can be used to predict a player’s future strategic choice; (ii) the dynamic interaction of the brains of two interacting players; (iii) the neural correlates of trust and its development over the course of the game; and (iv) how the brain distinguishes between one’s own actions and those of another person.