Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that allows for automatic and remote identification of objects and is currently discussed as one of the most important technical enablers of Pervasive Computing, boosting economic processes and home computing applications. However, as far as privacy is concerned RFID is still in its ‘kindershoes’. A public outcry as to the privacy and securi...

We present a method that allows to guarantee liveness by construction of a class of timed systems. The method is based on the use of a set of structural properties which can be checked locally at low cost. We provide su cient conditions for liveness preservation by parallel composition and priority choice operators. The latter allow to restrict a system's behavior according to a given priority ...

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive existing empirical literature in this area, studies have not paid much attention to the importance of transmission mechanisms in determining the influence of aid inflows on growth rates. In other words, existing studies have failed to specify the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify inve...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic saw unprecedented responses to the allocation of scarce and insufficient triage resources difficulties in establishing containment measures, which oscillated between suggestive, persuasive coercive. Classical criteria were replaced by extreme utilitarianism based on objectively evaluated medical privilege critically ill with a recoverable prognosis applying suppor...

The popularity of open ascending auctions is often attributed to the fact that openly observable bidding allows aggregate dispersed information. Another reason behind frequent utilization auction formats may be they activate revenue enhancing biases. In an experiment, we compare three differ in how much information revealed and potential activation behavioral biases: (i) Vickrey auction, a clos...

This paper explores live coding environments in the context of notational systems. The improvisational practice of live coding as combining both composition and performance is introduced and selected systems are discussed. The author’s Threnoscope system is described, but this is a system that enables the performer to work with both descriptive and prescriptive scores that can be run and altere...

In this paper, we present some preliminary studies on reducing the emittance of the Hefei light source II (HLS-II) storage ring by redistributing the synchrotron damping partition factor using a Robinson wiggler. The studies demonstrate that it is possible to reduce the emittance by 50% using a 2-meter long wiggler on a rematched lattice. This encouraging result suggests a feasible option to si...

In England and Wales, 53% of live births were born within marriage in 2013, compared to 59% in 2003 and 93% in 1963 [1] . The average age at marriage has increased and more children are born to women older than 30 years. In the UK, there were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in 2015. This figure has grown steadily from 1.9 million in 2005. Lone parents with dependent children re...

This paper investigates whether an outcome-based aid formula can improve fiscal and outcome equity across local school districts more strongly than a typical aid formula does, including Ohio’s recent aid formula. When the outcome-based aid formula is applied to foundation aid, fiscal and outcome equity deteriorates compared with the Ohio’s recent aid formula. However, when it is applied to powe...