We show how group discounts can be offered without forcing buyers to surrender their anonymity, as long as buyers can use their own computing devices (e.g. smartphone, tablet or computer) to perform a purchase. Specifically, we present a protocol for privacy-preserving group discounts. The protocol allows a group of buyers to prove how many they are without disclosing their identities. Coupled ...

As modeling details can have a large impact on planner performance, domain transformation has been a traditional subject of interest in the planning community not only between languages, but also within languages. Herein, we automate an intra-language transformation method that has as yet been applied only manually, and that has never been formally described: action schema splitting, which tran...

An orthogonality space is a set X together with symmetric and irreflexive binary relation ⊥, called the relation. A block partition of maximal mutually orthogonal elements X, decomposition collection subsets each which complement union others. (X,⊥) normal if any gives rise to unique space. The one-dimensional subspaces Hilbert equipped usual provides motivating example. Together maps that are,...

The distribution of Coxeter descents and block number over the set fully commutative elements in hyperoctahedral group B n , FC ( ) is studied this paper. We prove that associated Chow quasi-symmetric generating function equal to a non-negative sum products two Schur functions. proof involves decomposition into disjoint union two-sided Barbash–Vogan combinatorial cells, type extension Rubey’s d...

Background: To compare the union times of the uncomplicated tibial shaft fractures, which were distally locked by twocoronal and one sagittal screws and by only two coronal screws.Methods: 45 patients with tibial shaft treated with intramedullary nailing included in this study. 23 of 45 fractureswere treated with uniplanar two distal interlocking (Group 1) and 22 fractures were treated with bip...

In the present work, the objective has been to analyse the compatibility of plant and human transcriptional machinery. The experiments revealed that nuclear import and export are conserved among plants and mammals. Further it has been shown that transactivation of a human promoter occurs by human transcription factor NF-κB in plant cells, demonstrating that the transcriptional machinery is high...

The relationship between financial development and economic growth is the crucial issues which could grab economists and policy makers' attention to it. Financial market plays an essential role on each economy, because it conducts funds to those individuals or firms which have productive investment opportunities. If the financial system does not perform this role efficiently, the economic effic...