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Showing 1 to 20 of 244 for “"secrets"”.
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Stone Cold Secrets
<p><em>Stone Cold Secrets</em> is a novel about a family that struggles to forgive each other for the secrets they have kept from one another. The story is based on a woman who gave away or sold her children after birth. The siblings meet each other as young adults and they try very hard to turn …
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Guessing human-chosen secrets
… studies the difficulty of guessing human-chosen secrets, introducing a sound mathematical framework modeling human choice as a skewed probability distribution. We introduce a new metric, alpha-guesswork, which can accurately models the resistance of a distribution against all possible guessing …
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Towards security without secrets
… manufacturing variation to create unclonable secrets in embedded systems. In this case, the secret is no longer stored permanently in digital form, but rather as the physical properties of the manufactured chip. Further, the recent proposal of "Public Model Physical Unclonable Functions" …
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Making computers keep secrets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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The Secrets of Buckingham Palace
In this dissertation, I would like to show what the life of the Royal Family and the world of Buckingham Palace is like, and more specifically those parts that are strictly separated from the public.
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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by commentators, there is yet to be a detailed analysis of the protection of trade secrets under international investment law. To carry out that analysis, I focus on two model United Kingdom treaties and the Comprehensive and …
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Uncovering the secrets of bitcoin's success
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a decentralized payment system. The transactions between two parties are approved not by a central institution but by the peers of the network. Bitcoin uses cryptography and software algorithms to control the units of generation and to verify the transactions on the …
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The Disclosure of Organizational Secrets by Employees
<p>Organizational secrets enable firms to protect their unique stocks of knowledge, reduce the imitability of their capabilities and achieve sustained competitive advantages (Hannah, 2005). In today’s business environments, the loss of valuable proprietary organizational knowledge due to …
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Leaking secrets via page walk side channels
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Enforcing Trade Secrets among Competitors on the Semantic Web
… a novel approach for the preservation of trade secrets in a Business-to-Business (B2B) environment that involves trade among competitors. The Web provides a low cost medium for B2B collaborations. Information exchange may take place during such a collaboration. The exchanged information may be …
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This Book is a Book of Secrets: Part One (Capstone)
<p>Horror novel excerpt. A recent murder sets FBI agents on the trail of Emma "Mink" Merchant's father. Mysterious outcast Chester Forrest might hold the answer to Mink's salvation--but is salvation what she needs? And is Chester more dangerous than he appears? </p>
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Secrets of the arts : Enlightenment Spain's contested Islamic craft heritage
This dissertation examines the artistic and architectural mutations occurring in Spain during the eighteenth century, when Spain decided to participate in the Enlightenment's philosophical project that emphasized the classification of art, crafts, and other knowledge, and thereby raised important …
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Telling secrets: the process of disclosure for women with stigmatised experiences
… occurred over time for women disclosing their secrets. This model of the process of disclosure was synonymous with the changes and development in the women’s self-identity as they came to terms with the impact of having a stigmatised experience or identity. Findings suggest that disclosure can …
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Dirty whites and dark secrets: Sex and race in "Peyton Place"
<p>"Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place " suggests that Grace Metalious's 1956 potboiler Peyton Place contains a critique of race which may have been just as unsettling to a mid-century readership as the novel's famed critique of sexuality. Peyton Place is most often said to …
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Cryptic Secrets: Phantoms of the Haitian Revolution in the American Imaginary
… (or ‘phantoms’) and uncovers the ‘encrypted’ secrets that underlie the multiple layers of myth, obfuscation, and silence that characterize American representations of Haiti—secrets which reflect both the limits of Haiti’s continual revolutionary power, and the transgenerational force of …
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