Circadian rhythm disorders (CRD) result from modern lifestyles characterized by long exposure time to blue light, shift-work, chronic stress and night-time social activities. The disruption of circadian rhythms represents an individual risk factor in the development various diseases, including neurodegenerative ones. Simultaneously, demographic ageing is associated with rising incidence disease...

For decades, sociological theory has documented how our lives are simultaneously produced through and against normative structures of sex, gender, and sexuality. These normative structures are often believed to operate along presumably "natural," biological, and essentialized binaries of male/female, man/woman, and heterosexual/ homosexual. However, as the lives and experiences of transgender p...

This paper describes a method of dense probabilistic encryption. Previous probabilistic encryption methods require large numbers of random bits and produce large amounts of ciphertext for the encryption of each bit of plaintext. This paper develops a method of probabilistic encryption in which the ratio of ciphertext text size to plaintext size and the proportion of random bits to plaintext can...

The impact of process variations continues to grow as transistor feature size shrinks. Such variations in transistor parameters lead to variations and unpredictability in circuit output and may ultimately cause them to violate specifications leading to circuit failure. In fact, timely failures in critical circuits may lead to catastrophic failures in the entire chip. As such, statistical modeli...

Changes in the train schedule affect the train driver duties. If a train is cancelled or delayed, the driver assigned to the train task might not be able to reach the station of his next train departure in time. In practice, if a driver is not available for the train departure, another driver, for instance, a reserve, is assigned to the task. If there are no drivers available to cover the task ...

Probabilistic occupancy grids are a common and well-proven spatial representation used in robot mapping. However, representing very large environments with high resolution can still impose prohibitive memory requirements. A quadtree is a well-known data structure able to achieve compact representations of large two-dimensional binary arrays. We extend this idea and present probabilistic quadtre...