The fingerprint template protection is strenuous among other biometric template protections because the fingerprint template stores the minutiae points as security enhancement of the fingerprint template and results in the degradation of the matching ...

This paper endogenizes auction timing and initiation in auctions of real options. Because bidders have information rent, a seller faces a “virtual strike price” higher than the actual exercise cost. The seller inefficiently delays the auction to encourage ...

This work questions our relationship to time and cosmic phenomena that occur on scales in space and time far beyond human perception. In UNRESOLVED SUN / SOLEIL IRRÉSOLU, these phenomena are made tangible by a thin disc of green fluorescent liquid ...

Biometrics are widely used for authentication in several domains, services and applications. However, only very few systems succeed in effectively combining highly secure user authentication with an adequate privacy protection of the biometric templates,...

Time irreversibility (asymmetry with respect to time reversal) is an important property of many time series derived from processes in nature. Some time series (e.g., healthy heart rate dynamics) demonstrate even more complex, multiscale irreversibility, ...

The authors theoretically studied the entropy generation during heat transfer of a pin fin array in channels with lateral ejection holes for a turbine blade. The entropy generation model was established based on the second-law analysis. The distribution ...

The experimental Pilot plant for tritium and deuterium separation, part of National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies - ICSI Rm. Valcea, as principal target have to establish the technology of the water-hydrogen ...

Darwin concludes The Origin of Species with a splendid one-phrase poem,From so simple a beginningendless forms most beautiful and most wonderfulhave been, and are being, evolved. Darwin's ''simple beginning'' may be identified, in today's terminology, ...

The process of coarse-graining—here, in particular, of passing from a deterministic, simple, and time-reversible dynamics at the microscale to a typically irreversible description in terms of averaged quantities at the macroscale—is of fundamental ...

A numerical study of slip flow irreversibility effect in microchannel with a conjugate heat transfer between gas streams heated by a free-stream flowing in counterflow direction is investigated. Silicon substrate containing rectangular microchannels is ...

New consumers entropy has been used to study the influence of price schocks on the irreversible change of consumer preferences. Social tissue is simulated via a spintronic model that considers production scale factor and assumes a market perfect ...

The problem of secret key extraction when n honest parties and an eavesdropper share correlated information is considered. A family of probability distributions is introduced and the full characterization of its distillation properties is presented. ...

This note is a historical survey of Christopher Strachey's influence on the development of semantic models of assignment and storage management in procedural languages.