[1] Glaciers draining westward from the Sierra Nevada divide, California, during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) were 7 times longer than east-draining glaciers. We address the degree to which this difference may be attributed to the topographic asymmetry of the west-tilted Sierran block and the climate asymmetry resulting from orographic modification of Pacific Ocean storms. We simulate kilomet...

The premodern city was frequently organized as a self-reflexive representation of universal order; the perceived design of the cosmos was inscribed in the ideal order of society, and from this ideal flowed moral authority and social stability (Townsend 1979; Wheatley 1971; Wright 1977). Certain pre-Hispanic Andean capitals, such as Inca Cusco, Chan Chan, the capital of the Kingdom of Chimor, an...

In this paper we revisit previous work in the BPK model and point out subtle problems concerning security proofs of concurrent and resettable zero knowledge (cZK and rZK, for short). Our analysis shows that the cZK and rZK simulations proposed for previous (in particular all round-optimal) protocols are distinguishable from real executions. Therefore some of the questions about achieving round ...

We show how to construct laconic honest-verifier statistical zeroknowledge Diophantine arguments of knowledge (HVSZK AoK) that a committed tuple of integers belongs to S for all languages in bounded arithmetic. While doing this, we propose a new algorithm for computing the Lagrange representation of nonnegative integers and a new efficient representing polynomial for the exponential relation. A...

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; present address: MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Kings College, London, United Kingdom Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Medical Genetics & Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Münst...

Patrik Wyss, Shaihan J Malik, Vincent O Boer, Johanna J Bluemink, Alexander Raaijmakers, Mustafa Cavusoglu, Peter Luijten, Johannes J Hoogduin, Giel Mens, and Anke Henning Institute for Biomedical Engineering, UZH and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands...

Affiliations: Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK. Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK. Dept of Radiology, Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK. Dept of Pathology, University of California San Francisc...

aIRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France; bDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina; cDepartment of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK; dDepartment of Informatics, Kings College London, London, UK; eDepartment of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; f Faculty o...

Institut für Pflanzenschutz, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Wien, Austria Institut für Bodenforschung, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Wien, Austria School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009; Science Directorate, Botanic Gardens and Par...