We present a micro-founded simulation model that formalizes the "ready, willing, and able" framework, originally used to explain historical fertility decline, to the practice of prenatal sex selection. The model generates sex ratio at birth (SRB) distortions from the bottom up and attempts to quantify plausible levels, trends, and interactions of son preference, technology diffusion, and fertil...

Hao, Ryan, and Zieliński (2010) propose a two-round decentralized voting protocol that is efficient in terms of rounds, computation, and bandwidth. However, the protocol has two drawbacks. First, if some voters abort then the election result cannot be announced, that is, the protocol is not robust. Secondly, the last voter can learn the election result before voting, that is, the protocol is no...

The Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) has been tasked with integrating digital stratigraphic data from a variety of sources to produce a regional 3-dimensional geological model of Alberta, often referred to as ‘The Framework’. This is a suitable model name, as it has been widely recognized that this model provides a framework to integrate our data and evaluate multidisciplinary correlations. The ...

We study secure multiparty computation (MPC) in the dishonest majority setting providing security with identifiable abort, where if the protocol aborts, the honest parties can agree upon the identity of a corrupt party. All known constructions that achieve this notion require expensive zeroknowledge techniques to obtain active security, so are not practical. In this work, we present the first e...

The LHC beam dumping system (LBDS) is used to dispose accelerated protons and ions in a wide energy range from 450 GeV up to 7 TeV. An abort gap of 3 μs is foreseen to avoid sweeping particles through the LHC ring aperture. This paper gives a brief overview of the critical apertures in the extraction region and the two beam dump lines. MAD-X tracking studies have been made to investigate the im...

Two phase commit PC is used for coordinating the commitment of transactions in distributed systems The preferred PC optimization is the presumed abort variant which reduces the number of messages when transac tions are aborted and eliminates the coordinator s need to retain information about aborted transactions The presumed commit PC variant provides a larger message reduction but its coordina...

Two phase commit (2PC) is used to coordinate the commitment of transactions in distributed systems. The standard 2PC optimization is the presumed abort variant, which uses fewer messages when transactions are aborted and allows the coordinator to forget about aborted transactions. The presumed commit variant of 2PC uses even fewer messages, but its coordinator must do additional logging. We des...

Compared to unicast traffic, multicast is not protected by any ARQ mechanism in 802.11 networks: collisions with other multicast and unicast transmissions are not detected and senders will not adapt to the contention situation by backing off. This results in an unreliable service for multicast transmissions. We propose early multicast collision detection (EMCD), an algorithm with the purpose of...