LOOKING INSIDE THE “IT BLACK BOx”: TECHNOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON IT USAGE

Looking Inside the Black-Box: Capturing Data Provenance Using Dynamic Instrumentation

Knowing the provenance of a data item helps in ascertaining its trustworthiness. Various approaches have been proposed to track or infer data provenance. However, these approaches either treat an executing program as a black-box, limiting the fidelity of the captured provenance, or require developers to modify the program to make it provenance-aware. In this paper, we introduce DataTracker, a n...

Inside the Black Box: Organisational Buying Behaviour and Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentary

Does Looking Inside a Circuit Help?

The Black-Box Hypothesis, introduced by Barak et al. [BGI12], states that any property of boolean functions decided efficiently (e.g., in BPP) with inputs represented by circuits can also be decided efficiently in the black-box setting, where an algorithm is given an oracle access to the input function and an upper bound on its circuit size. If this hypothesis is true, then P 6= NP. We focus on...

When the classical & quantum mechanical considerations hint to a single point; a microscopic particle in a one dimensional box with two infinite walls and a linear potential inside it

In this paper we have solved analytically the Schrödinger equation for a microscopic particle in a one-dimensional box with two infinite walls, which the potential function inside it, has a linear form. Based on the solutions of this special quantum mechanical system, we have shown that as the quantum number approaches infinity the expectation values of microscopic particle position and square ...

Is it time to shed some light on the black box of health policies regarding the inhabitants of the high background radiation areas of Ramsar?

Although there are substantial experimental, epidemiological and clinical evidences that high doses of ionizing radiation cause cancer and other detrimental biological effects, the health effects of human exposure to chronic low dose radiation exposures are still poorly known. People in some areas around the world live in dwellings with radiation and radon levels as much as more than 2...