AFFILIATIONS: Junyent, chandrasekar, and bringi—Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; rutledge, kennedy, brunkow, george, and bowie—Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Francesc Junyent, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, 209 Campus D...

Since 1979 when threshold schemes were introduced by Blakley (Bla79) and Shamir (Sha79), many papers in this area have been published. These papers are mostly about particular designs and applications of threshold schemes. In this work, we are interested in characterisations of ideal threshold schemes rather than particular constructions. Of course, these characteristic properties do not depend...

not much worried whether they be right or wrong. His desire to be the center of attraction may lead him to do things considered irrational when viewed from other angles. If he is in the upper 10 per cent of his class at school, it might be well to advance him to the next grade, provided he is sufficiently interested to show that he is capable of doing the work. If convenient, the teacher should...

A response to the letter regarding The BRAIN TRIAL: a randomized, placebo controlled trial of a Bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist (Anatibant) in patients with traumatic brain injury, by Mr Vincent Simmon President and CEO of Xytis Inc. Letter We were disappointed to read that [1] Mr Simmon has repeated the claims and allegations about Serious Adverse Events that were withdrawn in full by Xytis ...

Language acquisition is a ubiquitous, challenging problem involving fundamental cognitive abilities of attention, learning, and memory. From infants to adult travelers, language learners are faced with figuring out which words refer to which referents from situations that contain many words and referents. By remembering the words and referents (e.g., objects) that co-occur most frequently over ...

An electromechanical analysis Tim Elston Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 Alexander Mogilner Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Aravi Samuel Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA 02142 George Oster Department of Molecular ...

This report describes the robot, Curious George, that took part in, and won, the robot league of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC), held at the AAAI’07 conference in Vancouver, Canada. We describe the robot hardware, the algorithms used during each of the three competition phases, as well as the results obtained by the system during the competition.

In a recent paper [2], G. R. Blakley raised a question about the decomposition of a ^-valent starlike function into the product of two ^-valent starlike functions. It is the purpose of this note to prove the conjecture of Blakley. Definition 1. The function/(z), regular in |z| <1, is said to be in the class S(p, m), where p and m are positive integers with p^m, if and only if (1) there exists a...

A (k, n) secret image sharing method shares a protected image in n shared images and the protected image can be reconstructed by k shared images. This study solves the secret image sharing problem by a geometry secret sharing strategy named the Blakley scheme. The protected image is first partitioned into non-overlapping sets of k pixels. Each set of k pixels forms a point under a k-dimensional...