General relativity and quantum mechanics are conflicting theories. The seeds of discord are the fundamental principles on which these theories are grounded. General relativity, on one hand, is based on the equivalence principle, whose strong version establishes the local equivalence between gravitation and inertia. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, is fundamentally based on the uncertainty ...

Designingprivacypreserving authenticationprotocols for massively deployed Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems is a real world challenge that have drawn significant attention from RFID community. This interest yields considerable amount of proposals targeting to overcome the main bottleneck (i.e. the exhaustive search over the list of all tag entries) which appears in the back-end data...

We formulate a set of Bell's inequalities for the system of two correlated neutral kaons coming from the decay of a φ-meson, without assuming CP and CP T invariance. We show that a non-vanishing value of the phenomenological parameter ε ′ would violate such inequalities, ruling out Bell's locality.

Nicod’s criterion states that observing a black raven is evidence for the hypothesis H that all ravens are black. We show that Solomonoff induction does not satisfy Nicod’s criterion: there are time steps in which observing black ravens decreases the belief in H. Moreover, while observing any computable infinite string compatible with H, the belief in H decreases infinitely often when using the...

Abstract Suppose that a decision-maker’s aim, under certainty, is to maximize some continuous value, such as lifetime income or social welfare. Can decision-maker rationally satisfy what has been called ‘continuity for easy cases’ while at the same time satisfying seems be widespread intuition against full-blown continuity axiom of expected utility theory? In this note I argue answer ‘no’: give...

Qadir Bux alias Imran Latif*, Ismail Abdul Rahman*, Ahmad Mujahid Ahmad Zaidi**, Kamran Latif, Aftab Hameed*, Sasitharan Nagapan * * Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia University (UTHM), 86400, Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM), 57000, Kem Sungai Besi, ...

background: fascioliasis, caused by fasciola hepatica and f. gigantica , is one of the most important plant and water borne disease in iran. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of fascioliasis and intestinal helminthes in inhabitants of rural areas of boyer-ahmad in kohgiluyeh and boyer-ahmad province in southwest of iran. methods: stool samples (1025) were collected from inhabitant of...