Nathan Ryan

Understanding the cybersecurity threat landscape is critical to mitigating threats, apportioning limited resources, and hosting a resilient, safe, and secure Olympic Games. To support the security goals of Tokyo 2020, this report characterizes the cybersecurity threats that are likely to pose a risk to the games, visualizes a threat actor typology, and presents a series of policy options to guide cybersecurity planning.

Gavin, Ethan, and Millie have faced so much already and more hardships are to come. They have accomplished the first part of their goal. They have acquired magic, and now, they must make the journey home to save their friend Rafe before his magical sickness claims his life. But the way is paved with danger. Not only are they struggling to learn about their magic, but others wish to use them and their powers. Will they ever save Rafe?

Millie and her friends remain stuck in the past. Luckily, a wyvern is willing to make a deal. Recover their statue, and they'll attack the dragons so the kids can slip into their lair and steal the amulet to bring them back to their time. Plus, the kids still need magic yet. Who knows if their sick friend is still alive? They aren't the only ones looking for magic. A former knight named Malachi is too, and it's hard to say if he's a friend or a foe. Will the kids ever find magic and return home?

When Rafe contracts a magical sickness, what else can his friends do but go on a quest to find magic and heal him? Gavin the leader, Millie the fighter, and Ethan the bookworm set out to leave their town. Rumors of magic lead them to Lost Man's Grove. All too quickly, they become lost themselves, lost in the past, in the Age of Magic. Their main goal has shifted. They still need to save their friend, but first, they need to stay safe. When magic ruled, wyverns and dragons existed too. The trio must survive and return home hopefully with magic. That's not too much to ask, is it?

It is more than past time for Ethan, Millie, and Gavin to return home to save Rafe. Only one problem and it's a gigantic one. Both Ethan and Millie don't have their magic any longer, which means Rafe still can't be healed. Racing against time, struggling to stay alive, working with new allies including Tristin Victor... The kids have to finish this magical odyssey before their foe in Lord Winthrop Victor, Tristin's father, steals all of their magic forever.

Gavin, Millie, Ethan, and Rafe barely have time to celebrate when they're plunged into yet another magical disaster. Rafe's magical coma has ended, but his visions have not. Now, he's seeing signs of a coming war with the Grand Kingdom. Worse, Queen Tatiana Diurant wants them dead. Will the kids be able to convince their king to aid them? Will their allies stand with them? Can they dare to hope to survive in this new magical world? Or will war return to the land as it had during the Age of Magic?

The crazed Queen of the Grand Kingdom wishes to rule all of Magicae. Her biggest obstacle? Gavin, Millie, and Ethan, of course. The kids have rounded up their allies from their magical adventures, but that might not be enough. The queen has an army. She has magic users fighting alongside her. Worse, the rumors about her having a dragon are true. Even if Gavin finds a way to become a dragon, they might not win. Do they even have a chance of surviving? Or will this magical crisis doom them all?

Biology majors and pre-health students at many colleges and universities are required to take a semester of calculus but rarely do such students see authentic applications of its techniques and concepts. Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine: Case Studies from Lake Victoria is designed to address this issue: it prepares students to engage with the research literature in the mathematical modeling of biological systems, assuming they have had only one semester of calculus. The text includes projects, problems and exercises: the projects ask the students to engage with the research literature, problems ask the students to extend their understanding of the materials and exercises ask the students to check their understanding as they read the text. Students who successfully work their way through the text will be able to engage in a meaningful way with the research literature to the point that they would be able to make genuine contributions to the literature.