Schulze voting is a recently introduced voting system enjoying unusual popularity and a high degree of real-world use, with users including the Wikimedia foundation, several branches of the Pirate Party, and MTV. It is a Condorcet voting system that determines the winners of an election using information about paths in a graph representation of the election. We resolve the complexity of many el...

Schulze voting is a recently introduced voting system enjoying unusual popularity and a high degree of real-world use, with users including the Wikimedia foundation, several branches of the Pirate Party, and MTV. It is a Condorcet voting system that determines the winners of an election using information about paths in a graph representation of the election. We resolve the complexity of many el...

Illegal copies of digital objects (images, texts, movies, music etc.) are easy to make. With the use of Internet more and more products are distributed in its digital form. To prevent illegal redistribution we propose to uniquely mark each distributed copy with a digital fingerprint. This fingerprint has to be part of the information to prevent it from being easily removed. This method is discu...

It is really a boon for computer users that they get some software free with the operating system. But what if this software was not given free and would have cost thousand dollars. This would have given rise to the bug called “software piracy” but not to worry the bug is still in the market and is the major concern of software developers. The major reasons of piracy include the high cost of so...

BACKGROUND Horizontal transfer of insecticide occurs when insects contact or ingest an insecticide, return to an aggregation or a nest, and transfer the insecticide to other conspecific insects through contact. This phenomenon has been reported in a number of insects including social insects, however it has not been reported in bed bugs. Since horizontal transfer can facilitate the spread of in...