All features great and small

All Secrets Great and Small

Tools for analysing secure information flow are almost exclusively based on ideas going back to Denning’s work from the 70’s. This approach embodies an imperfect notion of security which turns a blind eye to information flows which are encoded in the termination behaviour of a program. In exchange for this weakness many more programs are deemed ”secure”, using conditions which are easy to check...

Incisions great and small.

All Banks Great , Small , and Global : Loan pricing and foreign competition Beatriz

Can allowing foreign participation in the banking sector increase real output, despite the imperfectly competitive nature of the industry? Using a new model of heterogeneous, imperfectly competitive lenders and a simple search process, we show how endogenous markups (the net interest margin commonly used to proxy lending-to-deposit rate spreads) can increase with FDI while the rates banks charg...

The small players in great game (case study: Caucasus's Khavanin)

According to its historical background, natural conditions and political geography, Caucasus is made up of a variety of races, followers and cultures of different rituals and religions. Historical links of Caucasus residents with Iranian civilization and culture resulted in their adherence to Iranian governments in equilibrium with Roman, Ottoman and Russian policies. Following the collapse of ...

The absolute arithmetic continuum and the unification of all numbers great and small

In his monograph On Numbers and Games, J. H. Conway introduced a realclosed field containing the reals and the ordinals as well as a great many less familiar numbers including −ù, ù/2, 1/ù, √ ù and ù − ð to name only a few. Indeed, this particular realclosed field, whichConway callsNo, is so remarkably inclusive that, subject to the proviso that numbers—construedhere as members of ordered field...