This article reads Edward Said’s Beginnings as a theoretical attempt and pragmatic ideology that reestablishes revolutionary notions of fundamental intellectual devotees individualism. A theorist himself, Said emphasizes the urge for deconstructions in facing canonized values methodologies continue to shape our ways thinking. Beginnings: Intention Method (1975) inaugurates writing style liberat...

Este artigo propõe-se à análise do romance O caso Meursault, de Kamel Daoud enquanto apropriação pós-colonial estrangeiro, Albert Camus. objetivo é investigar como reconstrói ficcionalmente a identidade árabe invisibilizada na escrita estrangeiro. Meursault ressignifica o cânone literário através da reinvindicação assassinado. A voz instância humanização negada ao homem assassinado no texto cam...

This is a proposal on the construction of a Message Authen-tication Code (MAC) based on Latin Squares. The design is inspired by Wegman-Carter construction which takes advantage of provable security. The MAC is described and its security is examined. It is also compared with other MACs and its advantages are shown.

In literature several estimates have been proposed for unimodal densities. They are typically derived from the Grenander estimate (see Grenander (1956)) for decreasing densities which can be easily extended to the case of unimodal densities with a known mode at . The resulting estimator is the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE). If the mode is unknown, the NPMLE does not exist a...

This research was funded by a CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant (80209-06-12) to the authors. We would like to thank our research assistants and Edward F. Meehan for their help with this study. We would also like to thank Grazyna Kochanska and Nazan Aksan for sharing their coding schemes with us. We would like to acknowledge the efforts of the editor and reviewers who provided exceptional feed...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my sincere appreciation to my thesis advisor, Professor Magnus Egerstedt, for his guidance, patience, and support. I am also specially grateful to Professor Edward W. Kamen for his support and encouragement early on in my PhD studies, as my first advisor. I also wish to thank Professors Erik I. Verriest and Yorai Wardi for serving on my reading committee, and ...