Bank regulation and deposit insurance: controlling the FDIC's losses

Deposit insurance ; Bank supervision ; Bank failures ; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

"Shift adjustments" to the monetary aggregates

Money supply ; Monetary policy - United States

U.S. banks' exposure to developing countries: an examination of recent trends

Developing countries ; Debts, External ; Loans, Foreign

LDC lending after the crisis

Debts, External ; Financial crises ; Developing countries ; Loans, Foreign

Corporate separateness

Banking structure ; Bank affiliates ; Bank holding companies

[Review of] Don L. F. N i lsen. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture, Number 1

Too often, the study of humor lacks the very thing it analyzes. That is one of the reasons Don Nilsen\u27s humor bibliography is such a pleasant surprise. In the cataloguing and describing of the seemingly endless number of humor books and articles, Nilsen has managed to capture the tone of the subject while still doing this tedious job impressively

Cardiovascular Disease in Elders: Is It Inevitable?

Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death and disability in America. The burden of cardiovascular disease is higher in elders than in younger populations, presumably because of life-long exposure to risk factors such as hypertension, smoking, abnormal blood lipids, lack of exercise, and/or obesity. Many assume that it is too late to attempt to modify risk factors in elders because behavior is so difficult to change. The purpose of this article is to argue that cardiovascular risk factor modification is effective in elders and should be vigorously pursued for the good of individuals, families, communities, and societies

Remote State Preparation

Quantum teleportation uses prior entanglement and forward classical communication to transmit one instance of an unknown quantum state. Remote state preparation (RSP) has the same goal, but the sender knows classically what state is to be transmitted. We show that the asymptotic classical communication cost of RSP is one bit per qubit - half that of teleportation - and becomes even less when transmitting part of a known entangled state. We explore the tradeoff between entanglement and classical communication required for RSP, and discuss RSP capacities of general quantum channels.Comment: 4 pages including 1 epsf figure; v3 has an additional author and discusses relation to work of Devetak and Berger (quant-ph/0102123); v4 improves low-entanglement protocols without back communication to perform as well as low-entanglement protocols with back communication; v5 (journal version) has a few small change

The cryptographic power of misaligned reference frames

Suppose that Alice and Bob define their coordinate axes differently, and the change of reference frame between them is given by a probability distribution mu over SO(3). We show that this uncertainty of reference frame is of no use for bit commitment when mu is uniformly distributed over a (sub)group of SO(3), but other choices of mu can give rise to a partially or even asymptotically secure bit commitment.Comment: 4 pages Latex; v2 has a new referenc

Hiding bits in Bell states

We present a scheme for hiding bits in Bell states that is secure even when the sharers Alice and Bob are allowed to carry out local quantum operations and classical communication. We prove that the information that Alice and Bob can gain about a hidden bit is exponentially small in $n$, the number of qubits in each share, and can be made arbitrarily small for hiding multiple bits. We indicate an alternative efficient low-entanglement method for preparing the shared quantum states. We discuss how our scheme can be implemented using present-day quantum optics.Comment: 4 pages RevTex, 1 figure, various small changes and additional paragraph on optics implementatio