Privacy Preserving Internet Browsers: Forensic Analysis of Browzar

With the advance of technology, Criminal Justice agencies are being confronted with an increased need to investigate crimes perpetuated partially or entirely over the Internet. These types of crime are known as cybercrimes. In order to conceal illegal online activity, criminals often use private browsing features or browsers designed to provide total browsing privacy. The use of private browsing is a common challenge faced in for example child exploitation investigations, which usually originate on the Internet. Although private browsing features are not designed specifically for criminal activity, they have become a valuable tool for criminals looking to conceal their online activity. As such, Technological Crime units often focus their forensic analysis on thoroughly examining the web history on a computer. Private browsing features and browsers often require a more in-depth, post mortem analysis. This often requires the use of multiple tools, as well as different forensic approaches to uncover incriminating evidence. This evidence may be required in a court of law, where analysts are often challenged both on their findings and on the tools and approaches used to recover evidence. However, there are very few research on evaluating of private browsing in terms of privacy preserving as well as forensic acquisition and analysis of privacy preserving internet browsers. Therefore in this chapter, we firstly review the private mode of popular internet browsers. Next, we describe the forensic acquisition and analysis of Browzar, a privacy preserving internet browser and compare it with other popular internet browser

The immersive virtual memory task: Assessing object-location memory in neurological patients using immersive virtual reality

Memory for object locations in proximity is an essential aspect of everyday activities and has high clinical relevance. Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) has the potential to bridge the gap between the experimental control of laboratory conditions and reliable predictions of functional abilities. We developed the immersive Virtual Memory Task (imVMT), a neuropsychological assessment tool for spatial memory that combines gesture-based natural hand interaction and a head-mounted display. Our aim was to investigate the imVMT task characteristics, to validate the imVMT regarding the underlying cognitive processes, and to evaluate its applicability and feasibility in the clinical context in a sample of thirty-five patients with various neurological disorders and functional deficits. We further aimed to assess object-location memory in a small-scale virtual environment. Our results show that task difficulty can be efficiently manipulated by increasing the number of objects to memorize and rotation angle against the encoding perspective. We demonstrate construct validity as our primary outcome measure was significantly related to spatial memory performance in conventional neuropsychological tests. The imVMT was highly feasible and received high ratings for usability. The imVMT represents an ecologically relevant and valid VR task for assessing object-location memory in a wide range of neurological patients

Swine manure digestate treatment using electrocoagulation

ABSTRACT Anaerobic biodigestion is an appropriate alternative for the treatment of swine wastewater due to its biogas generation properties and the possibility of its application as a source of energy for heating or electricity. However, digestate can still contain high levels of turbidity, organic carbon and nutrients and must be correctly managed as a biofertilizer, or treated to avoid any impact on the environment. Considering this, electrocoagulation (EC) shows promise as a technology because of its ease of handling and high efficiency in effluent remediation. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of EC in a batch system in the treatment of swine wastewater digestate. The wastewater used in the treatment was sampled from a 10 m3 biodigestor effluent (digestate) located at Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil. A batch-scale experiment was carried out to evaluate the following two variables: electrode distance (ED) and voltage applied (V). The removal efficiency levels (%) for the best operational condition (2 cm, 5 V) after 30 min were: 97 %, 98 %, 77 % and 10 % for color, turbidity, total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN), respectively. The EC batch system produced efficient results, underlining its promise as an alternative to be applied in the treatment of digestate

Rare Thyroid Cartilage Involvement of Multiple Myeloma Visualized on F-18 FDG-PET/CT Imaging: 3 Case Reports

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