Secure tracking for critical applications : communications, GPS and future Galileo services

Tracking/remote monitoring systems using GNSS are a proven method to enhance the safety and security of personnel and vehicles carrying precious or hazardous cargo. While GNSS tracking appears to mitigate some of these threats, if not adequately secured, it can be a double-edged sword allowing adversaries to obtain sensitive shipment and vehicle position data to better coordinate their attacks, and to provide a false sense of security to monitoring centers. Tracking systems must be designed with the ability to perform route-compliance and thwart attacks ranging from low-level attacks such as the cutting of antenna cables to medium and high-level attacks involving radio jamming and signal / data-level simulation, especially where the goods transported have a potentially high value to terrorists. This paper discusses the use of GNSS in critical tracking applications, addressing the mitigation of GNSS security issues, augmentation systems and communication systems in order to provide highly robust and survivable tracking systems.

Secure tracking using trusted GNSS receivers and Galileo authentication services

This paper describes a secure framework for tracking applications that use the Galileo signal authentication services. First a number of limitations that affect the trust of critical tracking applications, even in presence of authenticated GNSS signals, are detailed. Requirements for secure tracking are then introduced; detailing how the integrity characteristics of the Galileo authentication could enhance the security of active tracking applications. This paper concludes with a discussion of our existing tracking technology using a Siemens TC45 GSM/GPRS module and future development utilizing our previously proposed trusted GNSS receiver.

Numerical simulation for the variable-order Galilei invariant advection diffusion equation with a nonlinear source term

In this paper, we consider the variable-order Galilei advection diffusion equation with a nonlinear source term. A numerical scheme with first order temporal accuracy and second order spatial accuracy is developed to simulate the equation. The stability and convergence of the numerical scheme are analyzed. Besides, another numerical scheme for improving temporal accuracy is also developed. Finally, some numerical examples are given and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of theoretical analysis. Keywords: The variable-order Galilei invariant advection diffusion equation with a nonlinear source term; The variable-order Riemann–Liouville fractional partial derivative; Stability; Convergence; Numerical scheme improving temporal accuracy

A spoofing detection method for civilian L1 GPS and the E1-B Galileo Safety of Life service

This paper describes an effective method for signal-authentication and spoofing detection for civilian GNSS receivers using the GPS L1 C/A and the Galileo E1-B Safety of Life service. The paper discusses various spoofing attack profiles and how the proposed method is able to detect these attacks. This method is relatively low-cost and can be suitable for numerous mass-market applications. This paper is the subject of a pending patent.

Rhetoric and public speech in English republicanism, 1642-1681

The study analyses the ambivalent relationship republicanism, as a form of self-government free from domination, had with the ideal of participatory oratory and non-dominated speech on the one hand, and with the danger of unhindered demagogy and its possibly fatal consequences to that form of government on the other. Although previous scholarship has delved deeply into republicanism as well as into rhetoric and public speech, the interplay between those aspects has only gathered scattered interest, and there has been no systematic study considering the variety of republican approaches to rhetoric and public speech in 17th-century England. The rare attempts to do so have been studies in English literature, and they have not analysed the political philosophy of republicanism, as the focus has been on republicanism as a literary culture. This study connects the fields of political theory, political history as well as literature in order to make a multidisciplinary contribution to intellectual history. The study shows that, within the tradition of classical republicanism, individual authors could make different choices when addressing the problematic topics of public speech and rhetoric, and the variety of their conclusions often set the authors against each other, resulting in the development of their theories through internal debates within the republican tradition. The authors under study were chosen to reflect this variety and the connections between them: the similarities between James Harrington and John Streater, and between John Milton and John Hall of Durham are shown, as well the controversies between Harrington and Milton, and Streater and Hall, respectively. In addition, by analysing the writings of Marchamont Nedham the study will show that the choices were not limited to more, or less, democratic brands of republicanism. Most significantly, the study provides a thorough analysis of the political philosophies behind the various brands of republicanism, in addition to describing them. By means of this analysis, the study shows that previous attempts to assess the role of free speech and public debate, through the lenses of modern, rights-based liberal political theory have resulted in an inappropriate framework for understanding early modern English republicanism. By approaching the topics through concepts used by the republicans legitimate authority, leadership by oratory, and republican freedom and through the frames of reference available and familiar to them roles of education and institutions the study presents a thorough and systematic analysis of the role and function of rhetoric and public speech in English republicanism. The findings of this analysis have significant consequences to our current understanding of the history and development of republican political theory, and, more generally, of the connections between democratic theory and free speech.

Sermam que pregou o R. P. Antonio Vieira da Companhia de Jesus, na Capella Real o primeiro de janeiro de 1642

Apresenta o sermão proferido pelo padre Antonio Vieira na Capela Imperial em 1º de janeiro de 1642. O documento reflete a batalha jurídica e teológica para a Restauração da coroa de Portugal, também defendida por teólogos através de sermões que eram publicados às expensas do Tesouro Real

Copia das proposiçoes, e secunda allegaçam, que o Doutor Francisco de Andrada Leitão Desembargador do Paço, do Conselho do Serenissimo Rey de Portugal, & seu Embaxador extraordinario aos Altos Senhores Ordens Geraes, & potentes Estados das Provincias unidas lhes presentou acerca da restituiçaõ da Cidade de S. Paulo de Loanda em Angola, & da Ilha, & Cidade de Sam Thome, acerca da Ilha, Cidade & districto do Maranham, & outros lugares, cidades, & fortalezas, Naos, & navios guerreados, usurpados, & tomados por os vassallos delles, despois do tratado da paz renovada com os ditos Senhores Ordens geraes em 14 de junho de 1642

As negociações entre Portugal e Holanda a respeito da devolução dos territórios portugueses ocupados se desenvolveram ao longo de um decênio. As propostas iniciais de Portugal referiam-se aos territórios ocupados pelos holandeses na África e no Maranhão. Estão nesse raríssimo folheto.

Is General Relativity a simplified theory?

IARD 8th Biennial Conference on Classical and Quantum Relativistic Dynamics of Particles and Fields - Galileo Galilei Inst Theoret Phys (GGI), Florence, ITALY - MAY 29-JUN 01, 2012. Edited by:Horowitz, LP

Theory and simulation of the optical response of novel nanomaterials from visible to terahertz

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A interação entre ciência e valores segundo Hugh Lacey: estratégias, controvérsias e a garantia do bem-estar de todos

Este trabalho analisa questões relacionadas a interação entre ciência e os valores de acordo com o modelo de desenvolvimento científico apresentado por Hugh Lacey. É realizado um exame das principais questões relacionadas ao ideal de uma ciência livre de valores, que possui raízes na defesa da autonomia científica feita por Galileu Galilei; o lugar que estes valores (cognitivos e não-cognitivos) ocupam e seu grau de influência dentro da pesquisa científica. Uma comparação entre as noções de paradigma e estratégia propostas por Thomas Kuhn e Hugh Lacey, respectivamente, são apresentadas, bem como as posições de Helen Longino como representante de um fazer científico feminista. Esta dissertação também apresenta o estudo de caso acerca da implantação e uso das sementes transgênicas. Mais do que um simples exemplo, o estudo de caso apresentado por Lacey abre oportunidade para a pluralidade de estratégias na ciência como principal modo de alcançar o bem estar de todos.

Enseñanza de nociones básicas de probabilidad por medio del juego de dados

La siguiente es una propuesta didáctica para la enseñanza- aprendizaje de la probabilidad clásica en el ámbito escolar. El trabajo se desarrolló con estudiantes de grado octavo, haciendo uso de un problema clásico de la probabilidad, propuesto en el siglo XVII por el Príncipe de Toscana a Galileo Galilei.

[Screenplay review] Tom Stoppard's "Galileo"

Screenplay review of: Tom Stoppard's "Galileo": the full-text of his unpublished screenplay, Areté 11 (Spring/Summer 2003)