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On the Private Provision of Public Goods

by Theodore Bergstrom, Lawrence Blume, Hal Varian - Journal of Public Economics , 1986
"... We consider a general model of the non-cooperative provision of a public good. Under very weak assumptions there will always exist a unique Nash equilibrium in our model. A small redistribution of wealth among the contributing consumers will not change the equilibrium amount of the public good. Howe ..."
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We consider a general model of the non-cooperative provision of a public good. Under very weak assumptions there will always exist a unique Nash equilibrium in our model. A small redistribution of wealth among the contributing consumers will not change the equilibrium amount of the public good

The General Public

by Author(s Briggs, Peter Coyle, Michael P, Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle , 1973
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Provided by the author(s) and University College Dublin Library in accordance with publisher policies. Please

A Survey of Computer Vision-Based Human Motion Capture

by Thomas B. Moeslund, Erik Granum - Computer Vision and Image Understanding , 2001
"... A comprehensive survey of computer vision-based human motion capture literature from the past two decades is presented. The focus is on a general overview based on a taxonomy of system functionalities, broken down into four processes: initialization, tracking, pose estimation, and recognition. Each ..."
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A comprehensive survey of computer vision-based human motion capture literature from the past two decades is presented. The focus is on a general overview based on a taxonomy of system functionalities, broken down into four processes: initialization, tracking, pose estimation, and recognition. Each

Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment

by Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses - Journal of the ACM , 1984
"... : Reasoning about knowledge seems to play a fundamental role in distributed systems. Indeed, such reasoning is a central part of the informal intuitive arguments used in the design of distributed protocols. Communication in a distributed system can be viewed as the act of transforming the system&apo ..."
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's state of knowledge. This paper presents a general framework for formalizing and reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems. We argue that states of knowledge of groups of processors are useful concepts for the design and analysis of distributed protocols. In particular, distributed knowledge

Law and finance

by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny, Bernard Black, Bertyl G. Bylund, Francesco Denozza, Yoshikata Fukui, Zvi Griliches, Oliver Hart, Martin Hellwig, James Hines, Louis Kaplow, Raghu Rajan, Roberta Romano, Rolf Skog, Eddy Wymeersch, Luigi Zingales - Journal of Political Economy , 1998
"... This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal pr ..."
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This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal

Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention

by J. David Hawkins, Richard E Catalano, Janet Y Miller - Psychological Bulletin , 1992
"... The authors suggest that the most promising route to effective strategies for the prevention of adolescent alcohol and other drug problems is through a risk-focused approach. This approach requires the identification of risk factors for drug abuse, identification of methods by which risk factors hav ..."
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, and make recommendations for research and practice. In spite of general decreases in the prevalence of the nonmed-ical use of most legal and illegal drugs in recent years, the abuse of alcohol and other drugs during adolescence and early adulthood remains a serious public health problem (Adams, Blanken

Establishing Pairwise Keys in Distributed Sensor Networks

by Donggang Liu, Peng Ning , 2003
"... Pairwise key establishment is a fundamental security service in sensor networks; it enables sensor nodes to communicate securely with each other using cryptographic techniques. However, due to the resource constraints on sensors, it is infeasible to use traditional key management techniques such as ..."
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such as public key cryptography and key distribution center (KDC). To facilitate the study of novel pairwise key predistribution techniques, this paper presents a general framework for establishing pairwise keys between sensors on the basis of a polynomial-based key predistribution protocol [2]. This paper

Protecting respondents’ identities in microdata release

by Pierangela Samarati - In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE , 2001
"... Today’s globally networked society places great demand on the dissemination and sharing of information. While in the past released information was mostly in tabular and statistical form, many situations call today for the release of specific data (microdata). In order to protect the anonymity of the ..."
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, and ZIP code, that can be linked to publicly available information to re-identify respondents and inferring information that was not intended for disclosure. In this paper we address the problem of releasing microdata while safeguarding the anonymity of the respondents to which the data refer

Fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices

by Craig Gentry - In Proc. STOC , 2009
"... We propose a fully homomorphic encryption scheme – i.e., a scheme that allows one to evaluate circuits over encrypted data without being able to decrypt. Our solution comes in three steps. First, we provide a general result – that, to construct an encryption scheme that permits evaluation of arbitra ..."
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We propose a fully homomorphic encryption scheme – i.e., a scheme that allows one to evaluate circuits over encrypted data without being able to decrypt. Our solution comes in three steps. First, we provide a general result – that, to construct an encryption scheme that permits evaluation

Fuzzy extractors: How to generate strong keys from biometrics and other noisy data

by Yevgeniy Dodis, Rafail Ostrovsky, Leonid Reyzin, Adam Smith , 2008
"... We provide formal definitions and efficient secure techniques for • turning noisy information into keys usable for any cryptographic application, and, in particular, • reliably and securely authenticating biometric data. Our techniques apply not just to biometric information, but to any keying mater ..."
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if the input changes, as long as it remains reasonably close to the original. Thus, R can be used as a key in a cryptographic application. A secure sketch produces public information about its input w that does not reveal w, and yet allows exact recovery of w given another value that is close to w. Thus
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