The Kings Bay, Crystal River complex, located in Citrus County, Florida, is one of the world’s largest spring-fed ecosystems and a critical warm-water refuge for endangered Florida manatees. Unfortunately, large areas of Kings Bay are currently in a state of ecological degradation characterized by smothering mats of the filamentous cyanobacterium Lyngbya wollei. The causes of this ecosystem shi...

From the perspective of structural linguistics, we explore paradigmatic and syntagmatic lexical relations for Chinese POS tagging, an important and challenging task for Chinese language processing. Paradigmatic lexical relations are explicitly captured by word clustering on largescale unlabeled data and are used to design new features to enhance a discriminative tagger. Syntagmatic lexical rela...

The paper examines Robert Filmer's arguments in defence of the divine right kings Patriarcha, or Natural Power Kings. Filmer argues that human beings are not born free by nature and, as a result, expected to obey kings/monarchs absolutely without questioning, due arbitrary power and bestowed upon kings. This position defended is antithetical notion natural freedom mankind John Locke other socia...

In this paper we revisit previous work in the BPK model and point out subtle problems concerning security proofs of concurrent and resettable zero knowledge (cZK and rZK, for short). Our analysis shows that the cZK and rZK simulations proposed for previous (in particular all round-optimal) protocols are distinguishable from real executions. Therefore some of the questions about achieving round ...

We show how to construct laconic honest-verifier statistical zeroknowledge Diophantine arguments of knowledge (HVSZK AoK) that a committed tuple of integers belongs to S for all languages in bounded arithmetic. While doing this, we propose a new algorithm for computing the Lagrange representation of nonnegative integers and a new efficient representing polynomial for the exponential relation. A...

In this paper we present a proposal to extend WordNet-like lexical databases by adding information about the co-occurrence of word meanings in texts. More specifically we propose to add phrasets, i.e. sets of free combinations of words which are recurrently used to express a concept (let’s call them Recurrent Free Phrases). Phrasets are a useful source of information for different NLP tasks, an...