Cryptographic accumulators are a tool for compact set representation and secure set membership proofs. When an element is added to a set by means of an accumulator, a membership witness is generated. This witness can later be used to prove the membership of the element. Typically, the membership witness has to be synchronized with the accumulator value: it has to be updated every time another e...

A compressor accumulator based on a different concept from a conventional suction accumulator is proposed. The new accumulator distinguishes itself from the conventional design in that it is pre~ charged with oil. Primary function of an accumulator being storage of excess refrigerant during certain operating conditions of the air conditioning system, this pre~charging may first seems odd, but f...

Suction accumulator in rotary compressor is an important component from standpoints of compressor cost, performance, sound and ability of controlling excess liquid refrigerant. Because of its importance, it deserves its due attention to enhancement of its functions. This paper first defines functions of an accumulator, lists major design parameters and their common ranges. Then, a couple of maj...

Heavy metal pollution is a worldwide problem. This study was conducted in a turquoise mine in Nyshabour (Iran) to find accumulator plant(s). Concentrations of metals were determined both in the soil and the plants growing in the mine. Concentrations of total K, Ca, Na, Mg, Mn, Zn, Fe and Cu in the mine area were higher than the control soil. The results showed that four dominant vegetations nam...

This paper presents high-speed low-power small-area accumulator designs to be used in DDFS systems. To reduce the Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) design complexity and size, only the most significant bits of the accumulator drive the phase to amplitude mapping block. Those bits need to be updated on every sampling clock, while the least significant bits of the accumulator are not visibl...

This paper presents high speed direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) based on pipelining phase accumulator (PA). The proposed 12-bit PA contains three pipelining stages with 4-bit carry-lookahead adder (CLA) with the carries ripple between these stages. Comparing results between similar phase accumulator designed with ripple carry adder on, Cyclone III FPGA platform reveals that the propo...

Title of Document: INVESTIGATION OF REFRIGERANT DISTRIBUTION IN A HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATOR WITH A FOCUS ON THE ROLE OF THE ACCUMULATOR Cara Sanderson Martin, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2007 Directed By: Professor Reinhard Radermacher, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering In order to maximize household refrigerator performance, it is important to understand the basic relationship between e...

Cryptographic accumulators are well-known to be useful in many situations. However, the most efficient accumulator (the RSA accumulator) it is not secure against a certificate authority who has herself selected the RSA modulus n. We generalize previous work and define the root accumulator in modules over Euclidean rings. We prove that the root accumulator is secure under two different pairs of ...