Blet is a puzzle. One starts with an even number of coins, laid out in a circle. At first, the coins are laid out with heads and tails alternating (HTHTHT. . .HT). Each turn, you are allowed to take three consecutive coins that show tails-heads-tails and flip them over, getting heads-tails-heads. This increases the total number of heads by one. You may do the opposite, flipping a heads-tails-he...

A principal acquires information about a shock and then discloses it to an agent. After the disclosure, the principal and agent each decide whether to take costly preparatory actions that yield mutual benefits but only when the shock strikes. The principal maximizes his expected payoff by controlling the quality of his information, and the disclosure rule. We show that even when the acquisition...

Smartwatches collect a broad range of physical activity data during usage. We postulate that Perceived Privacy Risk has a direct negative influence on the Behavioral Intention to Use smartwatches and an indirect negative influence on the Behavioral Intention to Use them through Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Enjoyment. After collecting 229 online questionnaires and applying a SEM approach, ...

With rising trading volumes in domestic and cross-border security transactions, risks faced by global financial firms and markets are increasing. To manage settlement risks and maintain competitiveness in global financial markets, the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to shorten the settlement cycle of security transactions from the current T+3 to T+1. As a result, key pla...

This paper asserts that economists of the mid twentieth century developed two methods of analyzing institutions. Austrian and Coasean economists developed complementary approaches to institutional analysis. Coase developed a research program of Comparative Institutional Analysis, whereby economists compare alternative institutions according to their most similar features. Ludwig von Mises and F...

Education and training interventions can be evaluated through the success of learning outcomes. Kirkpatrick's four-level model is a widely accepted and highly popular evaluation tool. However, some criticise the model's shortcomings. This article will examine the extent to which the four-level model can evaluate design and technology students' learning about aesthetics after an intervention by ...

What qualities lead some Internet videos to reach millions of viewers while others languish in obscurity? This question has been largely unexamined empirically. We addressed this issue by examining the role of emotional response and video source on the likelihood of spreading an Internet video by validating the emotional response to an Internet video and investigating the underlying mechanisms....

Roshan Weerasekera, Dinesh Pamunuwa, Matt Grange † †Centre for Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Science & Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK. Email: {r.weerasekera,d.pamunuwa,m.grange}@lancaster.ac.uk Hannu Tenhunen, Li-Rong Zheng ∗ Department of Electronics, Computer, and Software Systems, KTH School of Information and Communication Technologies, ELECTRUM 229, 164 40 K...

We give a Clifford+T representation of the Toffoli gate of T -depth 1, using four ancillas. More generally, we describe a class of circuits whose T -depth can be reduced to 1 by using sufficiently many ancillas. We show that the cost of adding an additional control to any controlled gate is at most 8 additional T -gates, and T -depth 2. We also show that the circuit THT does not possess a T -de...

This paper reviews the major adhesives and processes used for 3D TSV thin wafer handling, provides thermal and other performance data on the materials and processes and attempts to establish a first order estimate of process related thermal performance using a common analytical method.