Since 1979 when threshold schemes were introduced by Blakley (Bla79) and Shamir (Sha79), many papers in this area have been published. These papers are mostly about particular designs and applications of threshold schemes. In this work, we are interested in characterisations of ideal threshold schemes rather than particular constructions. Of course, these characteristic properties do not depend...

1 © Copyright iMedPub | This article is available in: www.hsj.gr/archive Sweets Consumption is Associated with Higher 10Year (2004-2014) Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease among Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients; The Detrimental Role of Socio-Economic Status: The GREECS (Greek of Acute Coronary Syndrome) Observational Study Matina Kouvari1, Venetia Notara1, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos1, Moscho ...

In an oligopoly, prior to choosing quantities/prices, each ̄rm has an opportunity to form pair-wise collaborative links with other ̄rms. These pair-wise links lower costs of production of the ̄rms which form a link. The collection of pair-wise links de ̄nes a collaboration network. We study stable and e±cient networks under di®erent types of market competition. We ̄nd that except under extreme c...

Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) occurs in approximately 1 in 2000 Caucasian births, but is rare in other races (di Sant'Agnese and Davis, 1976). In Negroes the incidence is 1 in 17 000 (di Sant'Agnese and Davis, 1976), while cases from the Indian sub-continent are even rarer (Reddy et al., 1969). Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6PD) deficiency, a sex-linked disorder causing haemolysis pr...

not much worried whether they be right or wrong. His desire to be the center of attraction may lead him to do things considered irrational when viewed from other angles. If he is in the upper 10 per cent of his class at school, it might be well to advance him to the next grade, provided he is sufficiently interested to show that he is capable of doing the work. If convenient, the teacher should...

Thyroid hormone is one of the critical hormones in mammals and plays an indispensable role in development as well as in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism and energy generation. The thyroid gland secretes mainly L-thyroxine (T4) into the circulation where it is converted to 3,5,3′-triiodothyronine (T3) in liver and kidney. Most of the serum T3 is derived from this conversion, which is catalyzed ...

For a general class of games with private monitoring we show for any finite state strategy (or automaton strategy) with Di states for players i ∈ {1, . . . , N}, if there exists a number of periods t such that it is possible on-path to reach any joint state from any joint state in t periods, the strategy is a strict correlated equilibrium only if each player’s strategy is a function only of wha...

Raphaëlle Pardossi-Piquard,1 Agnès Petit,1 Toshitaka Kawarai,2 Claire Sunyach,1 Cristine Alves da Costa,1 Bruno Vincent,1 Sabine Ring,3 Luciano D’Adamio,4,5 Jie Shen,6 Ulrike Müller,3 Peter St. George Hyslop,2 and Frédéric Checler1,* 1Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR6097 CNRS/UNSA Valbonne 06560 France 2Centre for Research in N...

We would like to thank Shai Ben-David, Oded Goldreich and Hugo Krawczyk for helpful discussions on the topics of this paper. We would also like to thank Bob Blakley for acquainting us with his work 8, 9]. In this section we deal with secret-sharing schemes over the real numbers. Although it has no practical implications, it is interesting to ask the question whether secret-sharing schemes do no...

Symbolic Reachability Computation for Families of Linear Vector Fields Gerardo Lafferriere Department of Mathematical Sciences Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. [email protected] George J. Pappas Department of Electrical Engineering University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. [email protected] Sergio Yovine VERIMAG Centre Equat...