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I have a windows application in C#.Net which uses mysql database to store data. Mysql DB and windows application are on the same machine. I am working through a security audit for a system at my work and one of the requirements is to encrypt all traffic between C# and Mysql. I have already implemented openssl and the connection has now encrypted but I also need to encrypt the Data traffic between c# and mysql. For e.g when the insert query executes from c#, the packet software (echo mirage) shows clear text(whole insert query with data) may be the reason is my c# application is using hardcode queries instead of stored procedures. How can I encrypt the traffic? Please help
Misinformation and echo chambers are often used to explain polarization and political divides between people. New research, however, finds there is another factor we should worry about, namely our online consumption of quality news, or exactly the lack of it. Most people do not read misinformation or inhabit echo chambers or radical rabbit holes. As this project finds, they do consume an alarming low amount of quality news. Finding ways to expose people more to trustworthy and reliable news sources could help with better informed citizens and tackling polarization.
Increasing exposure to quality news could influence people's attitudes for the long term believes Wojcieszak. 'We should not only worry about things like misinformation and echo chambers but also look at the majority of people who do not consume any news or political information. We should study how we can engage these often-disengaged citizens in the political process by exposing them more to quality and verified news and thereby including their more moderate voices in the political arena.'
A combined theoretical and experimental method has been developed to characterize the crystal structures of metals and alloys. This method is based on the mirage effect and can be applied to study unknown defect and heat-treated structures. Using a laser beam with a Gaussian distribution made it possible to design a simple algorithm to describe the frequency response of a crystal structure to a modulated thermal action for the case of photothermal deflection. This algorithm can establish the most probable crystalline modification of the structure to be tested. Samples of quenched and annealed steels have been studied. This method should finally be verified by studying a material subjected to substantially different heat treatments.
Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) estimates tissue-specific parameters from a set of differently weighted MR images. It offers unique benefits over conventional qualitative MRI, such as higher sensitivity and reproducibility. However, qMRI is inherently slower and requires very accurate parametric estimates. As such, it is only slowly finding its way into clinical practice. This thesis develops methods to improve the clinical applicability of qMRI by reducing the acquisition time and increasing the accuracy of the parametric estimation. To overcome the limitation of long acquisition times, this work investigates the use of non-Cartesian imaging and advanced image reconstruction techniques to accelerate qMRI. To this end, a TAPIR sequence was modified by replacing the conventional Cartesian trajectory with a spiral trajectory, which allows the k-space to be sampled more efficiently. It was further combined with a state-of-the-art joint parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstruction method, L1-ESPIRiT. Phantom and in vivo experiments showed comparable results to Cartesian TAPIR. Using retrospective undersampling, spiral TAPIR allowed the measurement time to be reduced by a factor of four without significantly compromising the quality of the parameter maps.Model-based reconstruction allows further reductions in measurement time by jointly reconstructing all differently weighted images while incorporating prior knowledge about the temporal signal evolution. This work develops the first model-based image reconstruction approach for the multi-echo gradient-echo sequence, MIRAGE, which is an extension of L1-ESPIRiT. Assuming that the temporal signal evolution of each voxel can be described as a sum of damped complex exponentials, MIRAGE selects the solution with the fewest exponentials among those that are consistent with the acquired data. MIRAGE was compared to L1-ESPIRiT using simulations, phantom experiments, and in vivo experiments and employing a non-Cartesian, radial gradient-echo sequence, where it showed a consistently improved quality of the parameter maps and, using retrospective undersampling, allowed the measurement time to be reduced by a factor of 16. To improve the accuracy of parameter estimation, this work develops a novel approach for multi-exponential relaxometry, MERLIN. It decomposes the signal evolution of a single voxel into exponential terms that originate from distinct compartments, which can provide a deeper insight into tissue microstructure. MERLIN simultaneously estimates the distribution of relaxation times at all voxel positions. It models the distributions as sparse and spatially consistent, which improves the accuracy of parametric estimates compared to conventional regularization techniques. The regularization strength is automatically adjusted with respect to the desired data fidelity. MERLIN was validated using simulation and in vivo experiments, where it produced more accurate and more precise parameter maps with up to a 70 percent reduction in the root-mean-square error.
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