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Do Rich Countries Choose Better Governments?

We analyze public investment in social infrastructure using a two-period model in which a government must intermediate all infrastructure investment. Voters choose a government from two alternative types, high quality and low quality. A high quality government obtains higher returns on infrastructure but also demands a bigger consumption payoff for intermediating investment, implying higher tax...

Numerical modeling of links behavior in eccentric bracings with dual vertical links

Configuration and geometry of bracing systems affect the seismic performance of structures significantly. Recently, the current authors have introduced a new configuration for eccentric bracing of structural frames that may be assumed as the combination of inverted Y-type and rotated K-type EBFs. The resulted braced frame is called EBF-DVL, consisting of two vertical links attached together by ...

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How to Forge DES - EncryptedMessages

In this paper we suggest key-collision attacks, and show that the theoretic strength of a cipher cannot exceed the square root of the size of the key space. As a result, in some circumstances, some DES keys can be recovered while they are still in use, and these keys can then be used to forge messages: in particular, one key of DES can be recovered with complexity 2 28 , and one key of (three-k...

Managing the semantics of coreference relations with Open Ontology Forge

In this paper, we will discuss managing the semantics of “coreference relations” in the framework of the Semantic Web. In the Semantic Web context coreference is important in integrating many kinds of information sources (of various linguistic forms, images, etc.) and helping users to share such information. In this paper we propose a knowledge model for describing the semantics of co-referenti...