Runninghead: LLN for quadratic forms. Abstract Let X; X i be i.i.d. real random variables with EX 2 =1. Necessary and suucient conditions in terms of the law of X are given for 1 n max 1i<jn jX i X j j!0 a.s. in general and for 1 n P 1i6 =jn X i X j !0 a.s. when the variables X i are symmetric or regular and the normalizing sequence f n g is (mildly) regular. The rates of a.s. convergence of su...

A non-repudiation protocol is aimed for exchanging a digital message and an irrefutable receipt between two mistrusting parties over the Internet. Such a protocol is said fair, if at the end of any possible protocol execution, either both parties obtain their expected items or neither party does. In this paper, we first argue that it is really meaningful in practice to exploit generic fair non-...

This paper presents results of a sentence production experiment in Korean that investigated speakers’ preferences in word order. Despite the existence of so-called “canonical” order for certain types of sentences, Korean exhibits flexible linear word orders that maintain constant grammatical relations (Sohn, 1999). For example, a dative sentence describing an object transfer can have various wo...

Business to consumer (B2C) electronic commerce has led to new relationships connecting various supply chain partners via the Internet, significantly increasing the quantity and quality of inter-organizational information flows. Banks are traditionally partners in the information and financial flow elements in the supply chain, but other non-bank parties are also getting involved in these activi...

Radiative decays of B-mesons, such as B → Kγ or B → ργ provide important tests of the Standard Model and of new physics scenarios. However, besides the dominant pointlike b → sγ or b → dγ transitions generated by loops of heavy particles, there are ordinary weak decay mechanisms. In particular the decay B → ργ can proceed via the usual four-Fermi weak transition accompanied by a photon radiated...

In the world of internet, e-commerce is one of the most prominent sectors where user wants to shop and pay online for online products. E-cash is one of these payment methods. In e-cash, every time a unique string is generated for user so that user uses that string to pay for any online product. At the time of online purchasing a trust should be maintain between customers and merchant such that ...

A solution for obtaining impartial random values in on-line gambling is presented in this paper. Unlike most previous proposals, our method does not require any TTP and allows e-gambling to reach standards of fairness, security an auditability similar to those common in physical gambling. Although our solution is detailed here for the particular case of games with reversed cards (e.g. poker), i...

background: the aim of the present study was to estimate chronological age based on third molar development and to determine the association between dental age and third molar calcifi cation stages. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 505 digital panoramic radiographs of 223 males (44.2%) and 282 females (55.8%) between the age of 6 and 17 were selected from patients who were ...