We consider a system where an agent (Alice) aims at transmitting a message to a second agent (Bob), while keeping a third agent (Eve) in the dark, by using physical layer techniques. For a transmission over frequency non selective block fading channels, we assume that Alice perfectly knows the channel with respect to Bob, but she has only a statistical knowledge of the channel with respect to E...

In this paper, the secrecy problem in the state dependent causal cognitive interference channel is studied. The channel state is non-causally known at the cognitive encoder. The message of the cognitive encoder must be kept secret from the primary receiver. We use a coding scheme which is a combination of compress-and-forward strategy with Marton coding, Gel’fand-Pinsker coding and Wyner’s wire...

In this paper, we derive outer bounds on the capacity region of two classes of the general two-user discrete memoryless broadcast channels with side-information at the transmitter. The first class comprises the classical broadcast channel where a sender transmits two independent messages to two receivers. A constraint that each message must be kept confidential from the unintended receiver cons...

When placing an indirect restoration such as a porcelain veneer, inlay, or onlay, the intaglio surface is typically treated in some fashion to ensure optimal bonding to the resin-based adhesives and luting cements required to affix it to the tooth tissues. A variety of surface preparation techniques have been advocated, including the use of acids, particle abrasion, various adhesives, and chemi...

This paper describes a pedagogical experiment in which a suite of novel blended learning strategies was used to replace the traditional role of design tutors in a first year architectural design studio. The pedagogical objectives, blended learning strategies and outcomes of the course are detailed. While the quality of the student design work produced by the blended learning design studio was i...

Abstract In ‘God, evil, and occasionalism’ Matthew Shea C.P. Ragland appeal to the Doctrine of Doing Allowing argue against Alvin Plantinga that occasionalism is morally worse than conservationism. this article I critically examine their argument conclude it fails because contains an equivocation or unwarranted. also offer a case position by, first, arguing on none three prominent accounts doin...

The doctor-patient relationship is built on an implicit covenant of trust, yet it was not until the post-World War Two era that respect for patient autonomy emerged as an article of mainstream medical ethics. Unlike their medical forebears, physicians today are expected to furnish patients with adequate information about diagnoses, prognoses and treatments. Against these dicta there has been on...