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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"secrecy"”.
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Professional secrecy and the auditor
… professions, the concept of traditional secrecy has always been given significant importance by the profession itself through its Code of Ethics and professional pronouncements. This concept has now been consolidated through the enactment of the Professional Secrecy Act, 1994, which makes …
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Nixon's Wars: Secrecy, Watergate, and the CIA
… Nixon, but in the deep, systemic government secrecy that developed in the United States at the onset of the cold war. There are four central ways in which this institutional secrecy affected the Watergate affair: (1) The emergence of a “national security” ideology in the United States in the …
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Maintaining secrecy when information leakage is unavoidable
(cont.) We apply the framework to get new results, creating (a) encryption schemes with very short keys, and (b) hash functions that leak no information about their input, yet-paradoxically-allow testing if a candidate vector is close to the input. One of the technical contributions of this …
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Sparse graph codes for compression, sensing, and secrecy
Sparse graph codes were first introduced by Gallager over 40 years ago. Over the last two decades, such codes have been the subject of intense research, and capacity approaching sparse graph codes with low complexity encoding and decoding algorithms have been designed for many channels. Motivated …
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Secrecy in Political Communication: Aspects of an Analytical Framework
… numerous accounts and studies of political secrecy, usually to reassert the importance of the free flow of information in a democratic society or to detect indicators of deception. Such studies frequently assume that secrec
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Secrecy and Identity: Consequences for Well-being and Social Disconnection
Despite the increasing academic attention to secrecy in the field of psychology as a common human experience, and the distinction between different types of secrets, research is still needed to understand the consequences of secrecy and the psychological mechanisms underlying its association with …
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Direct verification of nuclear weapons and the secrecy-certainty spectrum
… of the ideas within DVNW. Narratives that frame secrecy and certainty as direct trade-offs appear to have developed in the United States with Field Test 34 and continue to generate an underlying skepticism towards any approaches that attempt to reconcile the aims of direct weapons verification..
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Secrecy, deception and intelligence failure : explaining operational surprise in war
… surprise attacks including operational secrecy, strategic deception, and intelligence failure. Using the Battle of the Bulge in World War II and the Chinese counteroffensive in the Korean War as case studies, this analysis illustrates these three elements and evaluates their relative …
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Coverage, Secrecy, and Stability Analysis of Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
… energy harvesting wireless networks. While these secrecy concerns have been recently addressed for the point-to-point link, it received less attention for the more general networks with randomly located transmitters (RF sources) and RF-powered devices, which is the main contribution in the second …
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Silent Dissent: The Effect of Structural Secrecy on Professional Communication at NASA
… of the role of racial integration on structural secrecy at MSFC during the Apollo project. Through this narrative, I consider the impact of structural secrecy on the organization as well as on the field of technical communication.</p>
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Physical layer security: secrecy performance analysis and design of cooperative communication systems
… of this work was to devise and implement a secrecy performance analysis for a Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) system with Nakagami-m fading. Unlike many studies that have investigated the dissimilar fading scenarios, there was a need to close the gap in the literature by proposing, …
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Empirical and theoretical observations in trade secrecy : statutory prescriptions and endogenous growth
Recent scholarship has suggested that trade secrecy may be as important, if not more important, than patenting as an intellectual property protection mechanism in the United States economy. While patent protection has always been an institution in the United States as a result of its inclusion in …
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The evolutionary psychology of information management: gossip, secrecy, and shame in evolutionary perspective
… management behavior, including gossip, secrecy, and the emotional processes guiding the communication and concealment of personal information. An evolutionary psychological perspective proposes that human cognition was shaped by natural selection to solve adaptive problems encountered …
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Privacy, secrecy and confidentiality : changing paradigms in the face of the HIV pandemic
This paper stems from discussion of real life problems experienced at a local state hospital, and that have been presented to the University of Cape Town Bioethics Centre. These problems will be outlined from their social, medical and ethical perspectives. The dilemmas relating to confidentiality …
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Simmel In The Laboratory: An Experimental Investigation Into The Relationship Between Secrecy And Cohesion
… whether there is a positive relationship between secrecy and cohesion – a proposition first made by Georg Simmel. More precisely, the study used the experimental method to investigate whether having members of a dyad share a secret with each other, increased cohesion in the dyad compared to a …
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Family narratives of child-to-parent violence and abuse: lifting the veil of secrecy.
Abstract redacted by the author.
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Managing secrecy and disclosure of domestic violence in affluent communities: a grounded theory ethnography
… study examined how affluent mothers managed secrecy and disclosure of DV in the context of their community. Data consisted of neighborhood observations, in-depth interviews with abused mothers and social service providers, and a focus group interview with high school students, all of which …
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A CyberCIEGE scenario illustrating secrecy issues in an Internal Corporate Network connected to the internet
… scenario designed to educate players in secrecy issues concerning the connection of an internal corporate network with the Internet. Additionally, this thesis produced Scenario Definition Files (SDFs) designed to test the game engine to determine if it would produce results that met the …
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