In order to cope with the ever-increasing adaptability and flexibility requirements for software we introduce the notion of a Concept-Centric Coding (C3) environment. The aim is to provide an active domain meta layer that can be used as a basic infrastructure to set up a documented malleable implementation. We illustrate this by means of COBRO, a proof-of-concept C3 environment developed in Sma...

Implicit theories drastically affect an individual's processing of social information, decision making, and action. The present research focuses on whether individuals who hold the implicit belief that people's moral character is fixed (entity theorists) and individuals who hold the implicit belief that people's moral character is malleable (incremental theorists) make different choices when fa...

Auditory processing forms the basis of humans’ ability to engage in complex behaviors such as understanding spoken language or playing a musical instrument. Auditory processing is not a rigid, encapsulated process; rather, it interacts intimately with other neural systems and is affected by experience, environmental influences, and active training. Auditory processing is related to language and...

Concurrent non-malleability (CNM) is central for cryptographic protocols running concurrently in environments such as the Internet. In this work, we formulate CNM in the bare public-key (BPK) model, and show that round-efficient concurrent non-malleable cryptography with full adaptive input selection can be established, in general, with bare public-keys (where, in particular, no trusted assumpt...

The Dolev–Yao model is a useful and well-known framework in which to analyze security protocols. However, it models the messages of the protocol at a very high level and makes extremely strong assumptions about the power of the adversary. The computational model of cryptography, on the other hand, takes a much lower-level view of messages and uses much weaker assumptions. Despite the large diff...

The requirement for materials that can bend is proliferating with the growing interest in flexible electronics and devices. terms bending flexing are often used interchangeably even though usually meant to be elastic while involves plastic deformation. Materials compared a simple “bendability figure-of-merit” through fracture strain—that is, how much material bent plastically once before breaki...

The prevalence of implicit intergroup bias in adults underscores the importance of knowing when during development such biases are most amenable to change. Although research suggests that implicit intergroup bias undergoes little change across development, no studies have directly examined whether developmental differences exist in the capacity for novel implicit associations to form or change....