Opening Address(Panel Discussion Public Radioprotection)

Indigenous healing practice: ayahuasca. Opening a discussion.

This essay frames an invitation to pastoral counselors and pastoral theologians to examine connections and perhaps interactions between themselves and traditional shamanic healers who use ayahuasca in their healing ceremonies. Indigenous people in South America have used ayahuasca for centuries, and the ritual has become common among the mestizo populations in urban areas of the Amazon, particu...

Rural School Psychology: Re-Opening the Discussion

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kerri Clopton, Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0607. ([email protected]) The practice of school psychology in rural areas is a topic that has been fairly absent from the literature since the 1980s. A needs assessment of school psychologists practicing in rur...

Privacy Amplification by Public Discussion

In this paper, we investigate how the use of a channel with perfect authenticity but no privacy can be used to repair the defects of a channel with imperfect privacy but no authenticity. More precisely, let us assume that Alice and Bob wish to agree on a secret random bit string, and have at their disposal an imperfect private channel and a perfect public channel. The private channel is imperfe...

Public Assessment Report Scientific discussion

Multiterminal Secrecy by Public Discussion

This monograph describes principles of information theoretic secrecy generation by legitimate parties with public discussion in the presence of an eavesdropper. The parties are guaranteed secrecy in the form of independence from the eavesdropper’s observation of the communication. Part I develops basic technical tools for secrecy generation, many of which are potentially of independent interest...