Does post-9/11 equal post-privacy?

Steganography: Why it Matters in a Post 911 World

Prior to the tragedy of Sept 11, 2001 steganography was barely known outside of academic and security circles. Now, it has become a much-reported element in one of the most significant events in the early 21st century. The ability to hide a text message inside a picture on a PC has gone from an interesting bit of trivia to a communications method possibly used by al-Qaeda as a means to covertly...

Does post-editing increase usability?

It is often assumed that raw MT output requires post-editing if it is to be used for more than gisting purposes. However, we know little about how end users engage with raw machine translated text or postedited text, or how usable this text is, in particular if users have to follow instructions and act on them. The research project described here measures the usability of raw machine translated...

does post septoplasty nasal packing reduce complications?

the main issues in nasal surgery are to stabilize the nose in the good position after surgery and preserve the cartilages and bones in the favorable situation and reduce the risk of deviation recurrence. also it is necessary to avoid the synechia formation, nasal valve narrowing, hematoma and bleeding. due to the above mentioned problems and in order to solve and minimize them nasal packing, na...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Measuring Post–Quickselect Disorder

This paper deals with the amount of disorder that is left in a permutation after one of its elements has been selected with quickselect with or without median-of-three pivoting. Five measures of disorder are considered: inversions, cycles of length less than or equal to some m, cycles of any length, expected cycle length, and the distance to the identity permutation. “Grand averages” for each m...