Compounding Tragedy

Pediatric Tragedy

Recurrent Human Tragedy During Hajj

Hajj, a unique yearly mass gathering pilgrimage of more than 2 million Muslims from around the world, presents enormous challenges to the Saudian Arabia government.1 The potential for deadly epidemic outbreaks of bacterial and viral diseases leading to upper respiratory infection and meningitis and human stampedes call for prompt attention from both pilgrims and the ministry of healt...

Compounding secret sharing schemes

In this paper we introduce the class of composite access structures for secret sharing. We also provide secret sharing schemes realizing these structures and study their information rates. As a particular case of this construction, we present the subclass of iterated threshold schemes, a large class of ideal secret sharing schemes.

Compounding and construction morphology

schema. That is, both the instantiation relation and the part of-relation are based on paradigmatic relationships between words in the lexicon. The morphological structure assigned to the word sneeuwwit is a projection of such paradigmatic relationships on the syntagmatic axis of word structure. One advantage of this approach to word formation is that generalizations about subpatterns can be ex...

Sign Languages and Compounding

Short abstract Compounding is one of the few sequential word formation processes found across sign languages. We examine the properties of compounds in languages in the visual-gestural modality, showing both similarities to spoken language compounds, as well as a modality-specific type of simultaneous compounding. We also explore the development of compounds in a new sign language, (Al-Sayyid B...