Marisol Álvarez (1968-2021)

Isabel Álvarez and Raquel

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have contributed to the productive and technological upgrading of many host economies, whereas the discussion about the entry modes of multinational companies (MNC) and developmental effects is far from being concluded. Our aim is to exam the relative importance of host country differences in the understanding of FDI configuration and their modes of entry, ...

Trr 1968

variable following an identical probability distribution as the arrival process. A new estimation method of the average travel time uses a crosscorrelation analysis of traffic flow measurement data. This method requires only traffic flow information, which is available from the measurements of single loop detectors upstream and downstream from one link. Different from the existing maximum cross...

Cryptanalysis of Álvarez et al. key exchange scheme

Álvarez et al. (Information Sciences, Vol. 179, Issue 12, 2009) proposed a new key exchange scheme where the secret key is obtained by multiplying powers of block upper triangular matrices whose elements are defined over Zp. In this note, we show that breaking this system with security parameters (r, s, p) is equivalent to solving a set of 3(r + s) linear equations with 2(r+s) unknowns in Zp, w...

EMBL Programme 2017-2021: Digital Biology

Maccabaean Prize Essay, 1968