Cryptographic techniques have been used intensively in the past to show how to play multiparty games in an adversarial scenario. We now investigate the cryptographic power of a deck of cards in a solitary scenario. In particular, we show how a person can select a random permutation satisfying a certain criterion dixree t ly (without knowing which one was picked) using a simple deck of cards. We...

Smart contracts [1] are an often touted feature of cryptographic currency systems such as Bitcoin, but they have yet to see widespread financial use. Two of the biggest hurdles to their implementation and adoption have been scalability of the smart contracts, and the difficulty in getting data external to the curency system into the smart contract. Privacy of the contract has been another issue...

Intracellular pathogens commonly invade and replicate inside of intestinal cells and exit from these cells is a crucial step in pathogen transmission. For convenience, studies of intracellular pathogens are often conducted using in vitro cell culture systems, which unfortunately lack important features of polarized, intact intestinal epithelial cells. The nematode C. elegans provides a tractabl...

As per the present scenario, the increasing growth of technology and the entrance into the digital age, we have to handle a vast amount of information every time which often presents difficulties. So, the digital information must be stored and retrieved in an efficient and effective manner, in order for it to be put to practical use. Compressing an image is significantly different than compress...

We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with without insurance.We study valuation following namely daily benefit, coverage, compulsory voluntary nature policy design, alongside costs (insurance premium) health requirements T...

We report a laboratory experiment that enables us to estimate parametric models of ambiguity aversion at the level of the individual subject. We use two main specifications, a “kinked” specification that nests Maxmin Expected Utility, Choquet Expected Utility, αMaxmin Expected Utility, and Contraction Expected Utility and a “smooth” specification that nests the various theories referred to coll...

An experimental research on the fundamentals of the superfinishing process is reported here. This work presents some of the experimental results obtained for 3 types of steel, OLC 45, 13CrNi and 41MoCr11 using the superfinishing process. This work intends to present several experimental results obtained through the processing of the experimental data obtained, considering the process as a dynam...