In this paper we are interested in efficient and secure constant round multi-party protocols which provide unconditional security against so called honest-but-curious adversaries. In particular, we design a novel constant round protocol that converts from shares over Zq to shares over the integers working for all shared inputs from Zq. Furthermore, we present a constant round protocol to secure...

In this paper we propose an effective and robust approach for detecting corner points on a given binary image. Unlike other corner detection methods the proposed method is non-parametric in nature, that is, it does not require any input parameter. The proposed method is based on mathematical morphology. It makes use of morphological skeleton for detecting corner points. Convex corner points are...

Specific heat ratio (γ), pseudo-Grüneisen parameter (Γ ), heat capacity (Cp) and effective Debye temperature (θD) for binary system of tetrahydrofuran with o-cresol and methanol respectively, were calculated using the experimentally measured densities, velocities and viscosities of the pure liquids and their mixtures over the whole composition range and at T = 293, 303, 313 K. The excess pseudo...

Solid state diffusion in a binary system, such as lithiation into crystalline silicon, often involves two symbiotic processes, namely, interfacial chemical reaction and bulk diffusion. Building upon our earlier work (Cui et al., 2012b, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 60 (7), 1280–1295), we develop a mathematical framework in this study to investigate the interaction between bulk diffusion and interfacia...

We propose to start the exposition of the topic by an example. The arguments are given in a crude manner. Formal proofs will be given in section 2. This example is taken from the very article [6] which introduced stochastic approximation. Consider x ∈ R the parameter of a system and g(x) ∈ R an output value from this system when parameter x is used. We assume g to be a smooth, increasing functi...

In this paper we are interested in efficient and secure constant round multi-party protocols which provide unconditional security against so called honest-but-curious adversaries. In particular, we design a novel constant round protocol that converts from shares over Zq to shares over the integers working for all shared inputs from Zq . Furthermore, we present a constant round protocol to secur...

Some drugs have low bioavailability due to their poor aqueous solubility and/or slowdissolution rate in biological fluids. Stiripentol (STP) is a novel anticonvulsant drug that isstructurally unrelated to the currently available antiepileptics. It has poor aqueous solubilityand its solubility has to be enhanced accordingly. Polyethyleneglycol 6000 (PEG-6000) iscommonly utilized as a hydrophilic...

Usually, in monitoring a proportion p < /em>, the binary observations are considered independent; however, in many real cases, there is a continuous stream of autocorrelated binary observations in which a two-state Markov chain model is applied with first-order dependence. On the other hand, the Bernoulli CUSUM control chart which is not robust to autocorrelation can be applied two-sided co...

We define the category of partitioned binary relations and show that it contains many classical diagram categories, including categories of binary relations, maps, injective maps, partitions, (oriented) Brauer diagrams and (oriented) Temperley-Lieb diagrams. We construct a one-parameter deformation of the category of partitioned binary relations and show that it gives rise to classical one-para...

Experimental results of dielectric investigations for binary mixtures of 2, 3-butanediol, 2, 3-BD, in2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2EH, were reported for various mole fractions and temperatures (298.2-308.2) Kand they were used to calculate dielectric parameters such as Kirkwood correlation factor, excesspermittivity and Bruggeman parameter. These parameters were used to carry out temperaturedependent die...