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Showing 1 to 20 of 399 for “"honest"”.
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Enforcing honest bahavior in agent economics
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Let's be Honest, Resident Participation and Inclusion in Hamilton's Neighbourhood Action
This research is a qualitative case study of a collaborative, resident-led community development initiative in Hamilton, Ontario. The study investigated how the initiative, known as Neighbourhood Action (NA), engages residents in identified neighbourhoods in collaboration with local service …
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Honest Signaling in Aggressive Contests Between Ozark Zigzag Salamanders (Plethodon Angusticlavius)
… benefit both the sender and the receiver. A dishonest signal that provides misleading information about quality or intent should therefore be selected against. Honest signals prevent cheating because they are constrained by factors such as the energetic costs of the signal. I tested the …
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3PC honest-majority PRAM computation with perfect security and low overhead
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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‘A little bit patronising if I’m being honest’: working-class mothering and expert discourses.
Recent early years policy interventions have focussed on the Home Learning Environment. The ‘Home Learning Environment’ relates to the parenting children receive at home, rather than the physical environment in which they live, enabling a focus on individual behaviour. Family and parenting …
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Lesbi Honest: Barriers to Identifying and Actualizing Sexuality as a "Later in Life Lesbian"
The growth of Queer Sociology has produced a body of research focused on LGBTQ identity formation, while less has been discovered about subsets of this community, including later-life lesbians who were previously partnered in long-term heterosexual relationships with cisgender men. Several …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
In this thesis I examine the influence of a cultural model of tattooing on psychological and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ornament is utilized by a mate to show high-quality health. The handicap …
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The honest thief: a qualitative study exploring the ethics of clandestine intelligence collection in a statutory environment
Researchers studying intelligence ethics have rarely had access to the insight of serving intelligence practitioners. In this study, a small number of practitioners were sampled in an attempt to gain an understanding of the techniques they use to make sense of the ethically questionable tasks they …
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"To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest" -- Words, Walls, and the Rhetorical Practices of the Angolite
“To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest”: Words, Walls, and the Rhetorical Practices of The Angolite examines the 50 year history of The Angolite, a news magazine published and edited by inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary. While The Angolite and the efforts of former editor Wilbert Rideau …
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Multi-component chemical defense in seahares (Gastropoda:Opisthobranchia): antipredator compounds act as both honest and deceptive signals to multiple predator species
… predator species? Can chemical defenses be honest signals to some species and deceitful to others? These issues were examined using seahares (Aplysia spp. and Stylocheilus spp.) and their cnidarian, crustacean, and vertebrate predators. Seahares release defensive secretions called ink and …
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Essays on Corruption and Enforcement
… I introduce a probability that the agent is “honest” in that she cannot lie or engage in corruption. Because the principal cannot distinguish who is honest and who is not a priori, the existence of honest agents creates an additional dimension of adverse selection. Honest agents cannot reduce …
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Techniques for identifying dissimulation of the managerial potential scale of the California psychological inventory
… college students under three instructional sets. Honest, fake good, and fake bad instructional sets were used in a within-subjects design to identify dissimulation of the managerial potential scale (Mp) of the CPI. An obvious -subtle (0-5) scale tested against the L and K scales of the Minnesota …
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Job Applicant Faking of Overt Integrity Tests: Fact or Fantasy?
… tests. We assigned one group of applicants to an honest condition and one group to a standard response condition. Applicants in the honest condition received a set of instructions that were modified to illustrate the importance of responding as honestly as possible when completing the …
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Authentication protocol using trapdoored matrices
… protocol, which is based on timing gaps. The honest user's secret key allows him to perform a task faster than any adversary. In our construction, the public key is a n x n matrix and the secret key is a trapdoor of this matrix. The task which an honest user has to perform in order to …
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Thresholdizing lattice based encryption schemes
… scheme with guaranteed output delivery, assuming honest majority in the semi-honest and malicious settings. Applying the secret sharing scheme on predicate encryption constructions from LWE [GVW15], we can obtain a distributed predicate encryption scheme.
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Design and applications of a secure and decentralized Distributed Hash Table
… to increase its influence and deny service to honest participants. Defending against this attack is challenging because (1) in an open network, creating many fake identities is cheap; (2) an attacker can subvert periodic routing table maintenance to increase its influence over time; and (3) …
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