Consider three players Alice, Bob and Cath who hold a, b and c cards, respectively, from a deck of d = a+ b+ c cards. The cards are all different and players only know their own cards. Suppose Alice and Bob wish to communicate their cards to each other without Cath learning whether Alice or Bob holds a specific card. Considering the cards as consecutive natural numbers 0, 1, ..., we investigate...

beryllium chemical combination has a considerable effect on the design and fabrication of the241am9be neutron source. in this investigation the beryllium combinations were studied as a generator ofneutrons with various mass percentage, and the neutron yields were also calculated using the results of thealice and srim codes calculations per unit incident charge. the neutron yields of beryllium ...

Alice and Bob are connected via a two-way binary channel. This paper describes an algorithm to enable Alice to send a message to Bob when 1) an oblivious adversary flips an unknown number of bits, T , on the channel; and 2) the message length L, and a desired error probability, ǫ are public knowledge. With probability at least 1− ǫ, our algorithm ensures that Bob receives the correct message, a...

This paper describes how NOMLEX, a dictionary of nominalizations, can be used in Information Extraction (IE). This paper details a procedure which maps syntactic and semantic information designed for writing an IE pattern for an active clause (IBM appointed Alice Smith as vice president) into a set of patterns for nominaliza-tions (e.g., IBM's appointment of Alice Smith as vice president and Al...

In this work we study the problem of confidential communication when different resources of randomness are available. We start with the relay channel where source observations are available at each terminal. We study the scenario where the transmitter (Alice) sends a private message to the destination (Bob), which is confidential to the relay (Eve). Alice and Bob also want to agree on a secret ...

for the ALICE TPC Collaboration. Received (received date) Revised (revised date) Using a test TPC, consisting of the ALICE TPC field cage prototype in combination with the final ALICE TPC readout and electronics, the energy loss distribution and resolution were measured for identified protons. The measurements were compared to theoretical calculations and good quantitative agreement was found w...

Bob died suddenly leaving his treasure to sister Alice. Eve will do anything to get it, so Alice hides the treasure together with Nipper, and promptly departs. Nipper is a low-cost RFID device that responds only to Alice’s calls— making it possible for Alice to locate the hidden treasure later (she is quite forgetful) when Eve is not around. We study the design of Nipper, the cryptographic mech...