Right-wing populist (RWP) movements have been on the rise in Western democracies. Outside of party politics, such regularly organize demonstrations against political elites and minority groups. At same time, civil society coalitions mobilized these movements. Yet we know little about effect counter-demonstrations RWP protest activities. We derive competing theoretical expectations from previous...

In the preamble to the Risk Management Program regulations (40 CFR Part 68), EPA endorses the concept of offering sources the option of using third parties to assist owner/operators in meeting their obligations under the rule. EPA recognizes that any third party proposal must: not weaken the compliance responsibilities of source owner/operators, offer cost savings and benefits to the industry, ...

Opposition to animal experiments in Britain appears to be extending beyond the labs to other businesses supplying them. Nigel Williams reports.

We study the problem of secure two-party and multi-party computation in a setting where some of the participating parties hold very large inputs. Such settings increasingly appear when participants wish to securely query a database server, a typical situation in cloud related applications. Classic results in secure computation require work that grows linearly with the size of the input, while i...

Recent efficient constructions of zero-knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs), require a setup phase in which a common-reference string (CRS) with a certain structure is generated. This CRS is sometimes referred to as the public parameters of the system, and is used for constructing and verifying proofs. A drawback of these constructions is that whomever runs the ...

The present study aims to investigate the association between political connections and related-party transactions for the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Sample includes the 485 firm-year observations from companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2013 to 2017 and research hypothesis was tested using multivariate regression model based on panel data.We fin...

The conventional wisdom on China's domestic political situation is one of tension and turmoil. China's leaders seem beset with a host of problems for which they have no ready answer. They face a growing number of popular protests in the cities and the countryside. Corruption seems to be endemic, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lacks the means or the will to crackdown on corrupt officials,...

Introduction Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) is a growing field dedicated to developing models and algorithms that enable robots to help people achieve goals through social interaction (?). Prior work in this field has focused on one-on-one interactions, but there is interest in extending this work to multi-party interactions. We contribute to the study of multiparty SAR by defining the role ...