An instantiation of the Cramer-Shoup encryption paradigm using bilinear map groups

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Economic Development Impact of Corridor Improvements

In recent years, the Indiana Department of Transportation (DOT) and other state transportation agencies have increasingly implemented non-capacity expansion projects or strategies due to their benefits in improving flow, safety, and reducing delay in the transportation network at low capital, operations, and maintenance costs. The quantification of the benefits of these strategies has also become very important due to increasingly challenging local and regional fiscal conditions. With this in mind, this project developed a framework and a tool for the evaluation of economic development impacts of corridor improvements at the sketch-level of planning. The resulting framework and tool, called “Tool for Operations – Economic Impact Analysis” (TOPS-EIA), is based on a framework and tool from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) called Tool for Operations Benefit Cost Analysis (TOPS-BC). TOPS-EIA takes the expected impacts of each strategy on corridor performance and translates them into business cost savings and economic development impacts through a set of statewide economic multipliers. TOPS-EIA is subdivided into 4 modules: arterial signal coordination (ASC) strategies, traffic incident management (TIM) strategies, work zone management (WZM) strategies, and access management (AM) strategies. Additionally, a qualitative tool for road diet (RD) strategies was developed. To demonstrate TOPS-EIA, two case studies of ASC strategies were conducted. The results showed that this type of strategies could provide not only significant user cost savings, but also economic development impacts, expressed as gross regional product, job-years, and real personal income. The proposed methodology and tool can assist DOTs, Metropolitan and Rural Planning Organizations (MPOs and RPOs) in assessing the benefits of non-capacity expansion projects at the early and middle stage planning processes and, therefore, contribute to better-informed decisions

A Distinctive New Species Of Ouratea (ochnaceae) From The Jalapão Region, Tocantins, Brazil

Ouratea acicularis R. Chacon & K. Yamamoto (Ochnaceae), a new species from the recently created Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins, Jalapão region, Brazil, is described. Ouratea acicularis appears to be most closely allied to O. oleifolia (A. Saint-Hilaire) Engler. Both species share a pubescent indumentum on the young branches, leaf surfaces, inflorescence axes, and outer surface of the flower buds, as well as revolute leaves and acute flower buds. Ouratea acicularis is unique in the genus in its aciculate leaf blade, at least 4 times narrower than in O. oleifolia, with a strongly revolute margin that conceals the abaxial leaf surface except for the midrib, as well as its inconspicuous secondary venation and narrower flower buds. Anatomically, O. acicularis differs from other previously studied species of Ouratea Aublet in that the cells of the adaxial epidermis have an hourglass-shaped lumen, pericellular forked hairs fused at the base, an unusually large cap of fibers and sclereids above the collateral vascular bundles, and in the predominantly 2-layered chlorenchyma. The stems of O. acicularis are noteworthy for the conspicuous secretory cavities of the cortex and secondary xylem, in which fibers and vessel members predominate.183397404Arruda, M.B., von Behr, M., Introdução (2002) Jalapão: Expedição Científica e Conservacionista, pp. 11-12. , Pp, M. B. Arruda & M. von Behr editors, IBAMA. BrasíliaBarroso, G.M., Morin, M.P., Peixoto, A.L., Ichaso, C.L.F., Frutos e Sementes (1999) Morfologia Aplicada à Sistemáticas de Dicotiledôneas, , Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Minas Gerais, BrazilBaum, H., Die Frucht von Ochna multiflora DC., ein Fall ökologischer Apokarpie. (1951) Oesterr. Bot. Z, 98 (4), pp. 388-395Engler, A. 1876. Ochnaceae. Pp. 301-332, pl. 62-77 in C. F. P. Martius & I. Urban (editors). Flora Brasiliensis 12(2)Guédès, M. & C. Sastre. 1981. Morphology of the gynoecium and systematic position of the Ochnaceae. Bot. J. Finn. Soc. 82: 121-138IUCN. 2001. IUCN Red Uist Categories and Criteria Version 3.1. Prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, United KingdomMaguire, B., Steyermark, J.A., Ouratea (Ochnaceae) in Guyana and adjacent Amazonian hvlea (1989) Mem. New York Bot. Gard, 51, pp. 56-102Mittermeier, R.A., Myers, N., Gil, P.R., Mittermeier, C.G., (1999) Hotspots: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, , Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, and CEMEX, HoustonProença, C. E. B., A. B. Sampaio, L. C. Milhomens, L. H. Soares e Silva, M. F. Simon, P. L. Simpson Jr. & R. Farias. 2002. Relatório da botânica. Pp. 21-28 in M. B. Arruda & M. von Behr (editors), Jalapão: Expedição Científica e Conservacionista. IBAMA, BrasíliaMittermeier, R.A., Myers, N., Gil, P.R., Mittermeier, C.G., Singer, R.F., Gomes, B.M., Pleonotoma orientalis (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae): Expanded description, distribution, and a new variety of a poorly known species (2007) Edinburgh J. Bot, 64, pp. 17-23Reis, M. L., D. C. Coelho, D. de F. Pereira. I. H. Carvalho, M. L. de A. Nunes, M. F. Simon & V. da S. Braz. 2002. Relatório da zoologia. Pp. 29-44 in M. B. Arruda & M. von Behr (editors), Jalapão: Expedição Científica e Conservacionista. IBAMA, BrasíliaSastre, C., Studies on the Flora of the Guianas 34. Synopsis generis Ouratea Aublet (Ochnaceae) (1988) Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia, 1, pp. 47-67Sastre, C., New Ouratea species (Ochnaceae) from Venezuela and adjacent countries (2001) Novon, 11, pp. 105-118Scariot, A.O., Cavalcanti, T.B., Sevilha, A.C., Sampaio, A.B., Carvalho-Silva, M., Pereira-Silva, G., (2002) Flora e Vegetação do Entomo do Parque Estadual do Jalapão (TO): Relatório de Atividades, , EMBRAPA, BrasíliaSolereder, H., (1908) Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons, , Clarendon Press, OxfordSpujt, R.W., A systematic treatment of fruit types (1994) Mem. New York Bot. Gard, 70, pp. 1-182Tieghem, van, P., Sur les Ochnacées. (1902) Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot, 16, pp. 161-416Whitefoord, C., Eight new species of Ouratea (Ochnaceae) from Mesoamerica (1992) Novon, 2, pp. 274-281Yamamoto, K. 1989. Morfologia, Anatomia e Sistemática do Gênero Ouratea Aubl.: Levantamento Preliminar de Características de Importância Taxonômica e Avaliação das Classificações Vigentes. Dissertação de Mestrado, Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brasil_. 1995. Estudos Taxonômicos Sobre Ouratea parviflora (DC.) Baill. (Ochnaceae) e Espécies Afins Ocorrentes em Floresta Atlântica nas Regiões Sudeste e Sul do Brasil. Ph.D. Thesis (unpubl.), Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazi