The electroolfactogram (EOG) previously has been used to demonstrate the regional distribution of rat olfactory epithelial odorant responses. Here, we evaluated the effects of airflow parameters on EOGs in two preparations: one where odorants were directly applied to the epithelium (opened preparation) and one where odorants were drawn through the nasal passages by an artificial sniff (closed p...

let $s$ be a monoid. in this paper, we prove every class of $s$-acts having a flatness property is closed underdirected colimits, it extends some known results. furthermore thisresult implies that every $s$-act has a flatness cover if and only if it has a flatness precover.

Abstract In card-based cryptography, designing AND protocols in committed format is a major research topic. The state-of-the-art protocol proposed by Koch, Walzer, and Härtel ASIACRYPT 2015 uses only four cards, which the minimum permissible number. minimality of their relies on somewhat complicated shuffles having non-uniform probabilities possible outcomes. Restricting allowed to uniform clos...

Today’s housing, as a private realm of human life, has changed in comparison with the past which was made regardless of quality, desirability, and lack of paying attention to the human needs and its psychological consequences; That is to say, residential units have turned into a set of closed spaces and their open and semi-open spaces have been merged into the urban spaces which disrupted their...

An inherently parallel algorithm is proposed that efficiently performs selection: finding the K-th largest member of a set of N members. Selection is a common component of many more complex algorithms and therefore is a widely studied problem. Not much is new in the proposed dualheap selection algorithm: the heap data structure is from J.W.J. Williams [1], the bottom-up heap construction is fro...

We consider secret computation of purchase history data among two companies of different type of business in order to identify purchase patterns without revealing customer information of each company. Among several privacy-preserving approaches, we focus on homomorphic encryption, which is public-key encryption supporting meaningful computations on encrypted data. In particular, we apply the so...

Most studies of implicatures focused on conversational implicatures. This study, however, examined the conventional implicature induced by but. According to the literature, one can assume that the second argument in a ‘p but q’ construction is the argument with the most weight. This is, however, never experimentally tested with a direct distancingcontrastive but. We presented participants with ...