I study two privacy-preserving social network graphs to disclose the types of relationships of connecting edges and provide flexible multigrained access control. To create such graphs, my schemes employ the concept of secretaries and types of relationships. It is significantly more efficient than those that using expensive cryptographic primitives. I also show how these schemes can be used for ...

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This paper aims to identify and analyze the political obstacles to the implementation of Organizational Contract of Public Action (COAP) based on the perceptions of municipal health secretaries of Bipartite Interagency Commissions (CIB). For this purpose, we interviewed 195 secretaries (92% of the total) from October 2015 to August 2016. Based on the approach of policy analysis, the main hurdle...

THE BUDGET GAP: GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE U.S. FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESS, 1962-2011 Kevin Fahey April 19, 2012 The persistent private sector wage gap between men and women is one of the more intractable deficiencies of modem American society. It may be symptomatic of male privilege, a theory that outlines pervasive, ubiquitous discrimination that favors men from birth until death. However, egal...

In Turkey, the notary is a public (state) service. But nevertheless, has unique status. On one hand, although notaries by some parameters belong to civil servants, on other they are self-employed, have right hire and dismiss an employee, dispose of income received, appear in court their own behalf, pay taxes independently. At same time, expenses not covered state. The onset responsibility Turke...

the Grand President of the League, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Lady President. Consequently, when the Prince came into the garden from Clarence House at four o'clock, the lawns which lie in front of the State apartments were thronged. In the absence abroad of Lord Wolferton, the senior Honorary Secretary, the Prince was received by Sir William Collins and Sir James Harrison, Ho...

S OF PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR PRESENTATION TO THE SOCIETY The following papers have been submitted to the Secretary and the Associate Secretaries of the Society for presentation at meetings of the Society. They are numbered serially throughout this volume. Cross references to them in the reports of the meetings will give the number of this volume, the number of this issue, and the serial number of ...

The progress of the British Federation against the Venereal Diseases was last reviewed 4 years ago, when details were given of achievements up to the end of 1953, and the programme for 1954 was forecast (Nicol, 1954a). It is now possible to list the Federation's activities up to the end of 1957; this is best done by summarizing the Joint Secretaries' reports for the years 1954, 1955, 1956, and ...

We consider a variant of the stochastic secretary problem where applicants need to be hired over time. Upon arrival of each applicant their cost per time step is revealed, and we have to fix the duration of employment, starting immediately. This decision is irrevocable, i.e., we can neither extend a contract nor dismiss a candidate once hired. In every time step, at least one candidate needs to...