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Security and privacy are two indispensable topics within information and communication systems. Both rely heavily on the generation of high quality cryptographic parameters. Some parameters, such as keys, have the intrinsic requirement that they must be chosen at random. Others, such as pseudonyms, have the additional requirement of being system-wide unique. Furthermore, in cases where pseudonyms are generated by users themselves, the privacy ...

This book describes two categories of work, i.e., the finite-difference full-vectorial beam propagation method (FD-FV-BPM) development and microlens design for single-mode fiber (SMF) to laser diode (LD) coupling. Chapter 2 gives a review of the general formula to solve the FV-BPM equation of electric formula by using the FD method. The FD-FV-BPM based eigenmode solver is then successfully employed to investigate the effective index of the fun...

The potential for a substantial impact on the market is attributed to electronic devices based on organic materials. For instance the production of solar cells and light emitting diodes employing conjugated polymers can take advantage of using well established printing methods. Novel materials and concepts are steadily developed in the necessary process of reaching the readiness for marketing. However, also the fundamental mechanisms need to b...

This thesis examines the links developing between the universities and their regions in the globalising knowledge economy as observed in the UK. It examines institutional responses to two realms of policies, namely, higher education policy and regional development policy. The diversifying missions of universities, especially, the 'third stream activities' promoted by the UK government since the late 1990s, are set against the dynamics of the m...

Of the children who survive a disaster, only a small amount will come through the experience entirely unscathed. The majority of the children will show negative consequences, if only for a short amount of time. But for some, the effects of the disaster will continue to adversely impact their daily functioning for an extended period of time. This impact can be seen in symptoms such as increased worry or anxiety, social withdrawal, and difficult...

The literary theory Literature as Cultural Ecology implies the notion that literature, in imaginatively bringing together various discourses, may release new potential for the extra-textual, cultural world. Why and in what way do the postmodern American novels E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel and T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain act like ecological forces within their culture? They serve as metaphorical cultural ecosystems. The cultural ecolo...

This book evaluates whether Catholics are swing voters, how their voting behavior has changed from 1992 to 2004, and what issues are influencing their voting behavior. Despite much discussion by the U.S. media about the Catholic swing vote, Lori Gula Wright finds that Catholics are not swing voters and that their voting patterns are more similar to the general electorate than ever before. Although religious, class and cultural issues have sig...

Design and Implementation of a Support Tool for Creating Multi-Modal User Assistance/Software Ergonomics means to develop a new method for technical writers which enables them to write nonlinear text, independent of a given structure. The information system IBM Corebank Information Center is an example for linear text structure. In a reverse engineering process the Corebank Information Center is analysed to see the problem in a linear text str...

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Research relating salivary cortisol levels withinternalizing and externalizing behavior problems inyouth has yielded inconsistent results, likely due tothe high day-to-day variation in stress regulation.Understanding stability in this changing system mayrequire an analytical strategy that separatesvariance in cortisol levels attributable to trait- or"basal" versus state- or "situationally-specific"sources. Early morning saliva samples were obt...

This study aimed to investigate how principals in Stockholm as recruiters talked about the recruitment process and ethnic diversity and how these statements could affect the possibilities of a Romany acquiring a Student Aid position within the school in question. The statements are interpreted through a discursive perspective inspired by Foucault and Laclau & Mouffe with a special focus on the power aspect and its consequences in terms of incl...

One of the great challenges facing the international oil and gas industry in the near future is how it will cope with the financial and environmental issues associated with the decommissioning of its oil and gas infrastructures. And in these days where transparency is called for in every aspect of governments' activities relating to their management of public assets this book is perhaps timely in that it addresses the decommissioning problem f...

Although it is widely believed that high quality judgements and operational readiness involve experiential as well as analytical processing, field studies are rare in decision research. A series of empirical studies were therefore directed at studying the underlying affective and cognitive processes in risk, feelings, and operational readiness within a military setting. Three different projects are reported, and altogether 8 different military...

Collisions between a bird and an aircraft, also known as a bird-strike event, are very common and dangerous.In order to predict the damage of the components of a turbine fan blade in a bird-strike, it is necessary to create an appropriate model for the blade and the bird. Several simulations were carried out using the Lagrange equations to simulate this impact. This work presents alternative standard practices for the modeling of bird-strike e...

Every century since the first, the United States has undergone a sometimes violent change in our economic structure. Populations in the U.S. greatly fear a major economic shift. The time has come to change our economic base, and once again, this frightens people. The U.S. has to compete globally to stay economically strong. What do we have to offer the world? Currently, one commodity is found in the degrees in higher education from the U.S. Ju...

Which cost of capital should I use when valuing an investment?" The aim of this book is to provide an answer for corporate finance managers, industrial managers, MBA or finance students who have faced this very dilemma. Finance theory explicitly advocates that firms use a project-specific discount rate when valuing investment projects, or at least a rate specially tailored to each division within a multidivisional firm. Practitioners and schol...

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Microarray is an important technology which enables people to investigate the expression levels of thousands of genes at the same time. A series of methods are proposed in this book to to detect differentially expressed genes while controlling the false discovery rate. In Chapter 1 and 2, a brief introduction of the Affymetrix GeneChip microarray technology and a literature review of the related works on this matter is provided.In Chapter 3, a...

Kommunikation ist ein wesentlicher, immaterieller Erfolgsfaktor für die Führung von Unternehmen. Um den Beitrag dieser zum Unternehmenserfolg anhand von relevanten Steuerungsgrößen messen zu können, wird ein effizientes und effektives Kommunikationsmanagement benötigt, das Intangible Performance Management (IPM). Die Autorin Ariane C. D. Gramm untersucht, wie unter Verwendung einer Portaltechnologie Daten zur Erfolgsmessung erhoben werden könn...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der selbstregulierenden hydrodynamischen Axiallagerung eines gedeckten Kreiselpumpenlaufrades am Beispiel des Laufrades einer Herzunterstützungspumpe. Die Druckdifferenzen im Radseitenraum zwischen Rotordeckel und Gehäuse regeln die axiale Position des gedeckten Laufrades in Abhängigkeit vom axialen Versatz selbstständig, das heißt ohne Sensoren oder sonstige Regelsysteme. Mit Hilfe geeigneter Experiment...