President Obama has discovered first-hand how difficult wrangling the interests of a dozen nations can be. For six years, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been in negotiations and might prove to be Obama’s crowning foreign policy achievement. If the 12-nation Free Trade Agreement (FTA) passes, it will shape the future of economic development in the Asia-Pacific and cement the U.S. as the...

In this paper, we present a lower bound on secret distribution in star network. Examples of star communication network exist in various systems including sensor networks where there is one base station and several sensors that need to communicate with it. While the previous result had shown the possibility of performing secret distribution in a star network using 2 log n secrets, the lower boun...

George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F.J. (1573/1575) is best known for its elaborate fiction production and the scandal 1573 publication supposedly caused due to being read as a roman à clef. This article considers version narrative his 1575 prefatory comments on it in context Elizabethan intelligence practices. Interpreting republication works sign success rather than consequence censo...

In this paper we study a reversing train puzzle proposed by Sam Loyd near the turn of the century. We concern ourselves with a version of this puzzle described most recently by A. K. Dewdney in Scientific American. There is a train, locomotive and n cars, that must be entirely reversed using only a short spur line attached to the main track. The efficiency of a solution is determined by summing...

In information-hiding, an adversary that tries to infer the secret information has a higher probability of success if it knows the distribution on the secrets. We show that if the system leaks probabilistically some information about the secrets, (that is, if there is a probabilistic correlation between the secrets and some observables) then the adversary can approximate such distribution by re...

10 In the ðt; nÞ multi-secret sharing scheme, there are n participants in the system. At 11 least t or more participants can easily pool their secrets shadows and reconstruct p 12 secrets at the same time. Chien et al. [IEICE Trans. Fundamentals E83-A (2000) 2762] 13 used (nþ p t þ 1) public values, ð2ðnþ pÞ tÞ ðnþ pÞ storages, and solved (nþ 14 p t) simultaneous equations to share p secrets. I...

Background: Viewpoints of women about spiritual resistance of men against performing semen analysis test referred to infertility Jahrom and Isfahan clinics affiliated to University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 430 women was selected randomly who referred to Dr. Rasekh's clinic in Jahrom city, medical Clinic in Isfahan city. Women responded to a...

Many peer-to-peer security protocols in mobile communications utilise shared secrets. Synchronous storage of shared secrets is imperative for the successful operation of security protocols, as asynchronous storage of shared secrets may lead to service unavailability. Hence, update mechanisms must not only guarantee the secrecy of shared secrets, but also their synchrony. This paper addresses sy...

This paper aims at challenging conventional theory according to which the abandonment of Keynesianism by social democratic governments entailed a ‘divorce’ between once very close parties and trade unions. During the 1980s and 1990s, Social Democratic parties endorsed the new economic consensus grounded on restrictive monetary policies. Nonetheless, a collaborative relationship between social d...