Is sustainable certification's ability to combat greenwashing trustworthy?

Vis-à-vis Cryptography: Private and Trustworthy In-Person Certifications

The growing role of mobile devices in previously face to face interactions presents new domains for cryptographic applications. At the same, time the increased role of digital systems raises new security and privacy issues. With some thirty thousand notifications sent, inSPOT.org’s electronic notification of exposure to sexually transmitted infections is one such concerning development. This pa...

On the Ability of Cdma to Combat

In contrast to the common opinion, that CDMA offers only advantages to overcome frequency{selective fading, in this paper, it is shown that CDMA can combat log{normal fading (long{term fading), too. This statement holds under the following two conditions: First, equal transmission rates for all users are presupposed. Second, interference cancellation is applied to combat multiple access interfe...

How the Fly Balances Its Ability to Combat Different Pathogens

Health is a multidimensional landscape. If we just consider the host, there are many outputs that interest us: evolutionary fitness determining parameters like fecundity, survival and pathogen clearance as well as medically important health parameters like sleep, energy stores and appetite. Hosts use a variety of effector pathways to fight infections and these effectors are brought to bear diff...

Is Distributed Trust More Trustworthy?

The Drivers of Greenwashing

More and more firms are engaging in greenwashing, misleading consumers about firm environmental performance or the environmental benefits of a product or service. The skyrocketing incidence of greenwashing can have profound negative effects on consumer and investor confidence in environmentally friendly firms and products. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive framework that examines the ex...