| In order to improve the eeciency of the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol, Hanaoka et al. proposed a light weight version of the SET protocol, called \LITESET"at ACISP '98. They claimed that LITESET has about 50% reduction in computational time and about 80% reduction in communication overhead by using a signcryp-tion scheme. We propose another way to construct an eecient SET proto...

The health risks of obesity are summarized in terms of disease in Fig. 1. Obesity is associated with a higher mortality incidence from cerebrovascular disease, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus and cancer of the breast, colon, endometrium and prostate (Lew & Garfinkel, 1979). Potent cardiovascular disease risk factors such as hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia have also been associa...

Two measures of implicit attitudes, the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Implicit Association Test (IAT), were compared with each other and with a measure of explicit attitudes in the assessment of implicit pro-slim/anti-fat bias. Results from both implicit tests indicated higher levels of bias than revealed by the explicit measure. The IRAP data suggested that it was par...

A bipartite concentrator is a single stage sparse crossbar switching device that can connect any m of its n ≥ m inputs to its m outputs possibly without the ability to distinguish their order. Fat-and-slim crossbars were introduced recently to show that bipartite concentrators can be constructed with a minimum number of crosspoints for any number of inputs and outputs. We generalize these graph...

A classical problem in phylogenetic tree analysis is to decide whether there is a phylogenetic tree T that contains all information of a given collection P of phylogenetic trees. If the answer is “yes” we say that P is compatible and T displays P . This decision problem is NP-complete even if all input trees are quartets, that is binary trees with exactly four leaves. In this paper, we prove a ...

An optical performance’s improvement of the interaction region can be obtained with the addition of new quadrupoles in the forward detectors area. Such scenario would allow decreasing the β∗ below the nominal value. The basic concept consists in using quadrupoles to break the quadratic behavior of β in the free space between the IP and the IR triplets. In this new configuration we present the p...

A Graph G = (V,E) is called k-slim if for every subgraph S = (VS , ES) of G with s = |VS | ≥ k there exists K ⊂ VS , |K| = k, such that the vertices of VS \K can be partitioned into two subsets, A and B, such that |A| ≤ 2 3s and |B| ≤ 2 3s and no edge of ES connects a vertex from A and a vertex from B. k-slim graphs contain, in particular, the graphs with tree-width k. In this paper we give an ...

AAII.com ranks four stock-picking models by Buffet, Graham, Greenblatt, and O’Neil (CAN SLIM) that consistently outperform the S&P 500. Implementing these requires complicated procedures an average investor might find challenging. Also, website does not identify companies comprising each portfolio or provide statistical analyses. We show how inexpert can easily implement models. Given CAN S...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) flooding is one of the most important and used enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method because it does not only increase efficiency but also as an underground CO2 storage. It considered a very complex involves knowing fluid phase behavior with different concentrations. should be noted that swelling (volume increase) dissolution carbon has significant effect on recovery. When thi...