organizations around the world are seeking for tactics and techniques in order to survive in today's turbulent competitive environment. one of these approaches is outsourcing logistics supply chain operations in terms of third-party logistics companies. the results of the researches in supply chain, confirms the importance of third party logistic companies and the synergy of these companies for...

We propose a new protocol allowing the exchange of an item against a signature while assuring fairness. The proposed protocol, based on the Girault-Poupard-Stern signature scheme (a variation of the Schnorr scheme), assumes the existence of a trusted third party that, except in the setup phase, is involved in the protocol only when one of the parties does not follow the designated protocol or s...

When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, seek to cast other as aggressor or party at fault, otherwise exert social control. This article illustrates how members work hamper challenges, evade control avoid being negatively characterized by systematically blocking access a turn in third position stopping their opponent’s agenda. Examining 100 h...

We review current issues in exclusive semileptonic tau decays. We present the formalism of structure functions, and then discuss predictions for final states with kaons, for decays into four pions and for radiative corrections to the decay into a single pion.

Building on attribution and interdependence theories, two experiments tested the hypothesis that close friends of victims (third parties) are less forgiving than the victims themselves (first parties). In Experiment 1, individuals imagined a scenario in which either their romantic partner or the romantic partner of a close friend committed the identical relationship offense. Third parties were ...

Organizations often do not want to reveal the way a product is created or a service is delivered. As a consequence, if two organizations want to cooperate, they contact a trusted third party. Each specifies how it wants to communicate with the other party. The trusted third party then needs to assure that the two organizations cooperate correctly. In this paper, we study requirements on trusted...