Urge for Novel and Secure Software Framework for Extraction and Decoding of Mobile Artifacts

Mobile Forensics is now days, increasingly becoming more challenging as it is the field of science that is continuously evolving with respect to the rapidly developing technologies and techniques for the extraction of the mobile data and its decoding. Majority of the crimes are getting committed digitally and especially the criminals are preferring mobile handsets than a laptop or desktop machines, leaving the footprints behind which could be evidence against them. The mobile handsets along with their software applications are getting more advanced and sophisticated mainly due to advances in Cloud computing where clouds are used to store data, Anti-forensics where efforts are made to defeat forensic procedures and Encryption which is used to secure the data during transit. But when compared with the pace of development in mobile hardware and software, the forensic tools and techniques are growing very slowly. Hence the contemporary forensic tools and methodologies are becoming increasingly obsolete and hence urges for the advanced forensic tools, methods which could comply with the need of today’s mobile forensics. Hence, this work presents a detailed survey of the contemporary challenges faced by the forensic experts with the current forensic tools and its methodologies and also the need, scope and opportunities associated with the novel and secure software framework that can address the majority of issues occurring while extraction and decoding of mobile artifacts.

Quinazoline and its diverse array of therapeutic application:A review

Heterocyclic chemistry being an important branch of chemistry includes many ring structures with heteroatoms such as nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. Quinazoline is an important nitrogen containing benzofused heterocycle and has several therapeutic actions such as antimalarial, antimicrobial, anticancer, and anticonvulsant. Quinazoline was first isolated from alkaloid vasicine. Vasicine, deoxyvasicine, tryptanthrin, and rutecarpine are some of the potent naturally occurring quinazolines. Substitutions on different positions of quinazoline ring lead to different activities. Detailed survey of activities of quinazoline such as anticancer, anticonvulsant, antifungal, antibacterial, and antidiabetic according to structure–activity relationship and marketed preparations containing quinazoline as an active moiety is described in this review.

Survey of the Story Elements of Isekai Manga

This paper presents a survey of the story elements in isekai (other world) manga. The large number of available isekai manga series allows the use of a survey to investigate patterns in story elements. These patterns can be used to generate hypotheses about relationships between story elements, authors’ intent, and readers’ interests. The paper begins with a review of the characteristics of isekai manga stories and places the stories into existing speculative fiction ontologies. A brief history of isekai manga and their relationships to roleplaying computer and tabletop games is provided. Finally, descriptions of the survey framework, instrument and results are presented. The survey includes data on 746 manga series identified as isekai manga by publishers or fans. The series are divided into four types (portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal). A detailed survey was performed on the 427 series identified as “portal-quest” stories (the most common type of isekai stories). The survey results are captured in a database of story elements that is organized based on plot points dictated by the form of the portal-quest stories. The survey found that the majority of the manga series are inspired by first-person shônen and otome computer games. The characteristics of the stories vary with the gender and age of the protagonists (here taken as surrogates for the gender and age of the stories’ target audiences) and this variation allows the generation of hypotheses on the motivations and interests of the different reader demographics and how they are satisfied by the stories.

Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco

The article presents important results from the Middle Draa Project (MDP) in southern Morocco related to two mid-1st millennium CE hilltop settlements (hillforts) that were associated with significant rock art assemblages. The combination of detailed survey and radiocarbon dating of these remarkable sites provides a unique window on the Saharan world in which the pecked engravings, predominantly of horses, were produced. As the horse imagery featured on the walls of buildings within the settlement, the radiocarbon dating around the mid-1st millennium CE can also be applied in this instance to the rock art. The rarity of rock art of this period within habitation sites is also discussed and it is argued that its occurrence at both these locations indicates that they had some special social or sacred significance for their occupants. While it is commonplace for rock art of this era, featuring horses and camels, to be attributed by modern scholars to mobile pastoralists, a further argument of the paper is that the desert societies were in a period of transformation at this time, with the development of oases. The association of the rock art imagery with sedentary settlements, where grain was certainly being processed and stored, is thus an additional new element of contextual information for the widespread Saharan images of horses and horse and riders.

Prehistoric Cyprus: fieldwork and research, 2003–2020

The aim of this overview is to present a detailed survey of the major fieldwork and relevant research on the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Cyprus that took place between 2003 and 2020. This presentation is not meant to be exhaustive, as almost two decades of excavations, surface surveys and publications cannot be covered fully in a review of this length. The following discussion is divided geographically and chronologically, starting with the Neolithic period and moving through to the end of the Bronze Age. It focuses on settlement patterns, aspects of chronology and the roles of mining and seafaring, via fieldwork, conferences, research projects and their subsequent publications.

MISATTRIBUTED PATERNITY Nel v Jonker (WCHC) unreported case number A653/2009 dated 2001-02-17

The purpose of this note is to set out the problem of misattributed paternity and to determine the rights of the parties to such a dispute in South Africa, in the light of the current legal view of paternity. Although the case touched on these questions, the court was unable to consider all the issues and make specific findings as a result of the poorly drafted pleadings and the lack of evidence before it. This note therefore seeks to provide an introductory overview of the concept of misattributed paternity, in particular focusing onthe financial aspects of this problem and, specifically, the possibility of reclaiming any maintenance amounts already paid towards the upkeep of the child. The question will further be addressed: If there is a claim, from whom can be claimed and what would the basis of such a claim be? Although this note does not engage in a detailed survey of relevant comparative authority, references to selected arguments used in foreign cases are included to assess the possible applicability of these arguments in similar disputes in South Africa.