In secure two-party function evaluation Alice holding initially a secret input x and Bob having a secret input y communicate to determine a prescribed function f(x, y) in such a way that after the computation Bob learns f(x, y) but nothing more about x other than he could deduce from y and f(x, y) alone, and Alice learns nothing. Unconditionally secure function evaluation is known to be essenti...

OBJECTIVE To develop a 'fruit self-efficacy' (FSE) instrument and a 'vegetable self-efficacy' (VSE) instrument for secondary-school students in the Netherlands and to test the reliability and validity of these instruments. DESIGN Methodological research. SETTING Seven secondary schools in the Netherlands. SUBJECTS Students (11-19 years of age) completed the two instruments in the classroo...

Verticillium dahliae Kleb. the causal agent of vascular wilt is an important pathogen of olive trees in growing areas of the world. Nine-month-old nursery olives including ‘Bladi’, ‘Conservalia’, ‘Kalamon’, ‘Koroneiki’, ‘Manzanilla’, ‘Mission’, ‘Marry’, ‘Picual’, ‘Rowghani’, ‘Sevillana’ and ‘Zard’ cultivars were root-dip inoculated with a defoliating (VCG1) isolate of V. dahliae obtained from d...

In this paper we present a realtime modelling technique which is based on a global clock architecture with a discrete time scale. We argue that this model can be applied to a wide range of scenarios. Furthermore we illustrate the modelling technique by an example describing an emergency closing system which is specified in the VSE tool (Hutter et al. 1999; Rock, Stephan, and Wolpers 1997; 1999).

The study investigated the transfer of attachment working models onto autonomous agents in a virtual social environment (VSE). Participants from a community sample (N = 422; mean age = 29 years; mean relationship duration = 4.8 years) encountered three attachment-related key scenes in a VSE: a separation with a subsequent reunion, a conflict, and an illness. In these scenarios, participants gav...