Acknowledgements I would like to thank some people who were involved in the creation of this thesis: • Berry Schoenmakers of TU Eindhoven for introducing me to the topic of cryptographic voting protocols. • Evangelos Karatsiolis for his work in guiding me through the process of writing this thesis and his constant motivation. • Roberto Samarone Araujo for hours of discussing various protocols w...

Dreams preoccupied the Greek and Roman world in antiquity, therefore they had a prominent role in social, philosophical, religious, historical and political life of those times. They were considered as omens and prophetic signs of future events in private and public life, and that was particularly accentuated when elements of actions which took place in the plot of dreams were associated direct...

Aim: Due to its chronicity and unpredictability, epilepsy confers significant burden to its bearers and their loved ones, affecting their quality of life (QOL). Contrary to persons with epilepsy (PWE), little is known about caregiver burden (CB) and QOL in Greece and worldwide. Here we attempt to identify the magnitude of epilepsy burden to Greek caregivers, explore factors associated with it a...

Bronch i a l a s t h m a , a m u l t i d i m e n t i o n a l a n d often c o n t r a d i c t o r y m e d i c a l p rob lem even t o t h e p r e s e n t day, shou ld h a v e f rom very ear ly a t t a c k e d t h e a t t e n t i o n of m a n , b o t h a s sufferer a n d as med ic ine -man , w h o w o u l d h a v e very m u c h been i m p r e s s e d by i ts d r a m a t i c a t t a c k s . Though ...

1. introduction reza barahani(1984), in his “male history”, focuses on the murder of son by father, in ferdowsi’s rustam and sohrab, in the canonical epic of shahnameh. he, thence, juxtaposes it to father’s murder by son, in sophocles’ “oedipus rex”, to conclude that in oriental culture, it is always the “new” that is sacrificed by the hands of the “old”, whereas in western culture it is the co...

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The following full text is a preprint version which may differ from the publisher's version. We study the sequential product GN01,GG02,GG05 , the operation p * q = √ pq √ p on the set of effects, [0, 1] A , of a von Neumann algebra A that represents sequential measurement of first p and then q. In GL08 Gudder andLatémolì ere give a list of axioms based on physical grounds that completely determ...

wvhich aire occupied by illustrations, hut the author has Nvritten succinctly without alnyloss of clarity, ani(d he can coinveymnuch valuable information in very little space. H-lis illustrations halve been chosen wisely, and their quality is of a remarkably high standard. There is no notable omission, withi the single exception, perhaps, of an account of the important changes in the only pa-t ...

The Kervaire invariant one problem has been one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in topology [6,8,9, 18, 19,231. Of course, the pivotal work was [S], which translated the original geometric problem [18, 191 into the problem of the stable homotopy groups of the sphere: Is It; E Ext;“” (2/2,;2/2) a permanent cycle in the Adams spectral sequence of the sphere? The traditional belie...

I myself, a helper in war, was marshalled among them on that day when the Amazon women came, men’s equals” Priam in Homer’s Iliad iii.182-189 Throughout the course of history the Amazons have continued to capture the fascination and imagination of scholars, historians and archaeologists alike. Accounts of these mysterious female warriors can be found scattered amongst ancient Greek and Roman li...