In this article, we propose artificial intelligence (AI) enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless networks (UAWN) for overcoming the challenges imposed by random fluctuation of channels, blocking and user mobility effects. UAWN, multiple UAVs are employed as base stations, which capable promptly adapting to randomly fluctuating environment collecting information about users' positio...

In anonymous credential schemes, users obtain credentials on certain attributes from an issuer, and later show these credentials to a relying party anonymously and without fully disclosing the attributes. In this paper, we introduce the notion of (anonymous) credential schemes with encrypted attributes, in which issuers certify credentials on encrypted attributes to users. These schemes allow f...

OpenID is a standard decentralized initiative aimed at allowing Internet users to use the same personal account to access different services. Since it does not rely on any central authority, it is hard for such users or other entities to validate the trust level of each entity deployed in the system. Some research has been conducted to handle this issue, defining a reputation framework to deter...

This study is the first to estimate the effect of war service in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) on domestic violence. We exploit a natural experiment in overseas deployment assignment among active duty servicemen by relying on theoretical and empirical evidence that, conditional on military rank and occupation, deployment assignments are orthogonal to the propensity for violence. Our result...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. The methods include discourse analysis in order to uncover the ideological ba...