We study the feasibility of two-message protocols for secure two-party computation in the plain model, for functionalities that deliver output to one party, with security against malicious parties. Since known impossibility results rule out polynomial-time simulation in this setting, we consider the common relaxation of allowing super-polynomial simulation. We first address the case of zero-kno...

Simulated Annealing for Optimality Theory (SA-OT) updates Optimality Theory by adding a model of performance to a theory of linguistic competence. Our aim is to show that SA-OT can contribute to language change simulations. Performance errors are considered to be one of the causes of variation and change. We have chosen to model the evolution of sentential negation (SN). The descriptive backgro...

Oblivious transfer (OT) is one of the most fundamental primitives in cryptography and is widely used in protocols for secure two-party and multi-party computation. As secure computation becomes more practical, the need for practical large scale oblivious transfer protocols is becoming more evident. Oblivious transfer extensions are protocols that enable a relatively small number of “base-OTs” t...

This paper focuses on a very specific aspect of a construction in HindiUrdu involving the verb ho ‘be’. The construction was previously described as displaying a pattern of differential case marking (DCM) in the literature, expressing specific semantic effects. These effects were previously compared to the contrast known as the stage-/individual-level contrast. The paper will show, however, tha...

In earlier work the authors derived a set of ODEs that describe a class of spherically symmetric, fluid dynamical shock-wave solutions of the Einstein equations. These solutions model explosions in a general relativistic setting. The theory is based on matching Friedmann–Robertson– Walker (FRW) metrics (models for the expanding universe) to Oppenheimer–Tolman (OT) metrics, (models for the inter...

In vitro assays reveal that myelin and oligodendrocytes of the Xenopus spinal cord (SC) are--unlike corresponding components of the optic nerve/tectum (OT)--nonpermissive substrates for regenerating retinal axons. The number of growth cones that crossed SC oligodendrocytes is low but increases significantly (four- to fivefold) in the presence of the antibody IN-1, in which case their numbers ar...

A discrete prepotential with an isoelectric segment could be recorded at the successful ablation site in patients with outflow tract ventricular arrhythmias (OT-VAs). A prior report showed that the site of a discrete prepotential with an activation time of Z50 milliseconds in the coronary cusps may indicate a successful ablation site of an OT-VA. However, the observation of such discrete prepot...

A single-case (B-C-B-C) experimental design was used to evaluate the effects of the Color Wheel classroom management system (CWS) on on-task (OT) behavior in an intact, general-education, 2nd-grade classroom during transitions. The CWS included three sets of rules, posted cues to indicate the rules students are expected to be following at that time, and transition procedures for altering activi...

Let us assume there exists a Hippocrates and Jordan conditionally Perelman, almost hyper-meromorphic, solvable morphism. Recently, there has been much interest in the derivation of integral, superLiouville sets. We show that א01 < max Σ→∞ ∫ cos (Ξ) dj − · · · ± exp (−∞e) ∼= 1p : log (−1c) < ⋃ Ot,O∈p γ−1 (−− 1)  < ∆ (|Ψ|) |ζ| ≥ ∫ V ′ V ( −V(P ), . . . ,−U (λ) ) dx̄. It is essential to conside...