We propose a protocol to transfer a one-time-pad (in a probabilistic manner) from Alice to Bob, over a public channel. The proposed protocol is unique because Bob merely acts as the receiver of the pad (secret key), i.e. Bob does not need to send any message back to Alice unless he detects eavesdropping. Such a secure transfer of one-time-pad, over public channel, is not possible in classical c...

110 Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol 2, No. 2, May 2008 ‘Alice’ (Reg. No. CV-1023, PI 644223) hard white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was developed by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and coreleased by the South Dakota and Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Stations in August 2006. In addition to researchers at South Dakota State University, researchers at the University...

The physics programme of the ALICE experiment at CERN-LHC comprises besides studies of high-energy heavy-ion collisions measurements of proton-proton interactions at unprecedented energies, too. This paper focuses on the global event characterisation in terms of the multiplicity distribution of charged hadrons and mean transverse momentum. These bulk observables become accessible because the de...

The strong suppression of high-pT hadrons observed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC indicates the interaction of high energy partons with a dense colored medium prior to hadronization. We review the main results from the high-pT hadron analysis at RHIC and what they tell us about the medium. We then concentrate on the new possibilities that the wider kinematic range at the LHC will offer and how...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To summarize the literature on Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), a disorder characterized by distortions of visual perception, the body schema, and the experience of time. RECENT FINDINGS On the basis of 169 published case descriptions, the etiology of AIWS is divided into 8 main groups, with neurologic disorders affecting mostly adults and elderly patients and encephalit...

ALICE [1, 2] is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The main physics goal of the experiment is the study of strongly-interacting matter in the conditions of high energy density (> 10 GeV/fm) and high temperature (> ∼ 0.2 GeV), expected to be reached in central Pb–Pb collisions at √ sNN = 5.5 TeV. Under these conditions, according to lattice QCD calculations, q...

Abstract Deuteron induced reactions on natural bismuth targets were investigated with the stacked foil activation technique up to 50 MeV. Excitation functions for $$^{\mathrm {209}}$$ 209 Bi(d,xn) {207,206,205}}$$ 207 , 2...

Eve is active, we need to determine the upper bound on the probability of the event that Alice and Bob do not both reject although secret-key agreement has not been successful. There are two cases in which this can occur: one is where Eve successfully guesses a = &(S) to impersonate Bob and makes Alice accept. The other case is where, after Eve saw&(S), she successfully guesses c = f,(S) to imp...

This paper reports on a quite large experience in implementing a procedurally introspective system (PIS), ALICE, in which a well known problem is faced: the integration between LISP and Horn clauses. This exercise is motivated by a recognized lack of experience in implementing PISs to deal with actual A.I. programming problems. ALICE is composed of two procedurally introspective languages based...