In February 2002, New Orleans endorsed with a 63 percent majority a ballot initiative to establish a citywide minimum wage one dollar above the federal minimum. We surveyed New Orleans businesses in 1999 to estimate this proposal’s costs. We present the main results from this survey. We then evaluate five means through which firms might adjust to cost increases—raising prices, improving product...

Proxy re-encryption is a cryptographic primitive proposed by Blaze, Bleumer and Strauss in 1998. It allows a user, Alice, to decide that in case of unavailability, one (or several) particular user, the delegatee, Bob, will be able to read her confidential messages. This is made possible thanks to a semi-trusted third party, the proxy, which is given by Alice a re-encryption key, computed with A...

|A method is presented for the stepwise re nement of an abstract architecture into a relatively correct lower-level architecture that is intended to implement it. A re nement step involves the application of a prede ned renement pattern that provides a routine solution to a standard architectural design problem. A pattern contains an abstract architecture schema and a more detailed schema inten...

presenting search results as a list of hits is often an insufficient way to assist users to find relevant documents and discover varied topics among search results. Visualization can assist users to find relevant documents. This paper presents a Data Mountain Search Results Presentation Interface (DMSRPI) and a plan for a user study of its effectiveness. The interface is intended to improve the...

The incidence of the liver tumors is increasing worldwide; concurrently liver directed therapies are also evolving rapidly. Management of these complex disease processes involves a multidisciplinary approach, hence it is imperative to understand the underlying management principles thoroughly. This overview is intended to provide an easy, step by step approach to transcatheter brachytherapy, al...