We provide a simple protocol for secret reconstruction in any threshold secret sharing scheme, and prove that it is fair when executed with many rational parties together with a small minority of honest parties. That is, all parties will learn the secret with high probability when the honest parties follow the protocol and the rational parties act in their own self-interest (as captured by a se...

Declaration (revised edition of 2004) and in principle undergo scrutiny of an independent IRB which reviews ethical issues of the human experiment. But, in clinical studies, the approval of the IRB and patient’s consent must be received and stated on paper.” We must change our guidelines according to the revised act by changing ‘clinical studies’ to “human subjects research.” Some researchers m...

Conventional models of single district plurality elections show that with three parties anything can happen extreme policies can win regardless of voter preferences. I show that when there are multiple district elections for a legislature we get back to a world where the median voter matters: an extreme policy will generally only come about if it is preferred by the median voter in a majority o...

We propose a privacy-preserving protocol for computing aggregation queries over the join of private tables. In this problem, several parties wish to share aggregated information over the join of their tables, but want to conceal the details that generate such information. The join operation presents a challenge to privacy preservation because it requires matching individual records from private...

There is something important missing in our lives if we are thoroughly ignorant or misled about reality—even intervention fantastic luck prevents unhappiness and practical failure. But why? I argue that perfectionism well-being offers the most promising explanation. My version says, roughly, flourish when exercise self-defining capacities successfully according to their constitutive aims. One o...

A design algorithm is derived, for a calculating minimum allowable electrical clearances in alternating and direct current “permissible” equipments, which are authorized to operate in gassy mines and tunnels under Part 18 of Title 30, Code of Federal Regulations [1]. The calculated clearances apply to operations at altitudes ranging up to 12 000 ft (3658 m) above sea level. The minimum allowabl...