What is ‘religious identity’ and how may schooling impact upon it? In this paper, I present an elementary theory of religious identity construction and negotiation, drawing upon the theoretical framework that emerged from extensive fieldwork as part of a study of adolescent Christians, Jews and Muslims in England undertaken for my DPhil at the University of Oxford. I suggest that a conception o...

This paper takes a comprehensive look at hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) schemes with constant-size ciphertexts which provide desirable provable guarantees and can be implemented using the most efficient bilinear pairings, namely, Type-3 pairings. Our work results in six new HIBE schemes. The first construction, DPVS-HIBE , is obtained by extending the IBE scheme of Chen et.al. Th...

Linear codes over finite rings with identity have recently raised a great interest for their new role in algebraic coding theory and for their successful application in combined coding and modulation. Thus, in this paper we address the problems of constructing of new cyclic, BCH, alternant, Goppa and Srivastava codes over local finite commutative rings with identity. These constructions are ver...

The current study investigated the effect of collaborative prewriting activities on learners’ identity construction and L2 writing development. To this end, 43 sophomore upper-intermediate university students majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at an Iranian university who had enrolled in a course called Advanced Writing were randomly divided into two experimental groups (g...

Phishing emails are one of today’s most common and costly forms of digital identity theft. They are now very convincing that even experts cannot tell what is and is not genuine. In a phishing attack, victims are lured by an official looking email to a fraudulent website that appears to be that of a legitimate service provider. Such attacks can be mitigated with digitally-signed emails. Unfortun...

We describe a cooperad structure on the simplicial bar construction on a reduced operad of based spaces or spectra and, dually, an operad structure on the cobar construction on a cooperad. We also show that if the homology of the original operad (respectively, cooperad) is Koszul, then the homology of the bar (respectively, cobar) construction is the Koszul dual. We use our results to construct...

This article is an anthropological examination and analysis of a Dersim-based mythical story, focusing on its meaning and function in belief and the practice of daily life. Within this scope, the Dızgun Bawa myth, revolving around a central sacred figure, is broached and analyzed here as a text comprising a basis for the construction of collective discourses giving way to socially functional me...