The Russian Revolution And The Annihilation Of The Individual; Case In Point - Pasternak\u27s Pasha Antipov

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Throughout the works of literature, there constantly appear certain characters who, although merely products of an author\u27s imaginative pen, make such a profound impression at first meeting that they live on further within the mind of the reader. They are those who are deliberately molded in such a way as to emphasize either main, or lesser, themes of a work solely by their own motivations and actions, as if divorced from all other activity. In this way, the theme itself, personified in the character, becomes an unforgettable rondo, playing itself again and again in our memory

A Grain of Salt

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. With some sorrow, we must confess that unkind comment has reached our ears. Several of our foreign students, undoubtedly enmeshed in a web of ignorance, have been heard casting somewhat vitriolic criticisms at our citizenry because of a particular policy of this fair city. The brunt of their remarks seems to be directed toward the use of a certain crystalline compound designed to free city streets of snow and ice. These harsh opinions bring a deep pang to the hearts of we natives who have lived here in Nature\u27s Wonderland all our lives. Being merely victims of circumstance, we feel obliged to set these poor souls aright, placing the responsibility where it properly belongs

finality

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. The long descent had ended. The terrifying blackness which had seized and swallowed up the others was gone, and now I was alone. Before me lay nothing, so vast, complete, unchanging, that I cannot possibly describe it. Words are for forms or ideas, yet this was neither. Color, shape, size, dimension, notion, expression- all were lacking, but still it possessed some strange positivism that attracted and drew me into its midst

A Grain of Salt

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. With some sorrow, we must confess that unkind comment has reached our ears. Several of our foreign students, undoubtedly enmeshed in a web of ignorance, have been heard casting somewhat vitriolic criticisms at our citizenry because of a particular policy of this fair city. The brunt of their remarks seems to be directed toward the use of a certain crystalline compound designed to free city streets of snow and ice. These harsh opinions bring a deep pang to the hearts of we natives who have lived here in Nature\u27s Wonderland all our lives. Being merely victims of circumstance, we feel obliged to set these poor souls aright, placing the responsibility where it properly belongs

Secure Message Transmission with Small Public Discussion

In the problem of Secure Message Transmission in the public discussion model (SMT-PD), a Sender wants to send a message to a Receiver privately and reliably. Sender and Receiver are connected by n channels, up to t < n of which may be maliciously controlled by a computationally unbounded adversary, as well as one public channel, which is reliable but not private. The SMT-PD abstraction has been shown instrumental in achieving secure multi-party computation on sparse networks, where a subset of the nodes are able to realize a broadcast functionality, which plays the role of the public channel. However, the implementation of such public channel in point-topoint networks is highly costly and non-trivial, which makes minimizing the use of this resource an intrinsically compelling issue. In this paper, we present the first SMT-PD protocol with sublinear (i.e., logarithmic in m, the message size) communication on the public channel. In addition, the protocol incurs a private communication complexity of O ( mn n−t), which, as we also show, is optimal. By contrast, the best known bounds in both public and private channels were linear. Furthermore, our protocol has an optimal round complexity of (3, 2), meaning three rounds, two of which must invoke the public channel. Finally, we ask the question whether some of the lower bounds on resource use for a single execution of SMT-PD can be beaten on average through amortization. In other words, if Sender and Receiver must send several messages back and forth (where later messages depend on earlier ones), can they do better than the naïve solution of repeating an SMT-PD protocol each time? We show that amortization can indeed drastically reduce the use of the public channel: it is possible to limit the total number of uses of the public channel to two, no matter how many messages are ultimately sent between two nodes. (Since two uses of the public channel are required to send any reliable communication whatsoever, this is best possible.) Key words: Secure message transmission, information-theoretic security, almost-everywhere secure computation, randomness extractors

Using 3-D GIS in Archaeology Classrooms: An Example from Hells Canyon, Oregon

Excavation data from an ancestral Nez Perce dwelling in Hells Canyon, Oregon (1600–500 B.P.) are used to integrate 3-D GIS and spatio-temporal problem-solving for university-level archaeology instruction. By working through three sequential projects, students learn visualization skills as well as archaeological methods, spatial thinking, and problem-solving. These projects include digital excavation of a house site with evaluation of the spatio-temporal relationships and patterns of artifacts, group analysis of different occupation layers, and 3-D visualization. Beyond this, students were encouraged to continue to explore areas of interest, develop new research questions, and complete more detailed studies as independent research efforts. Applications like 3-D GIS have the potential to reach many more students and dramatically increase student interest in and understanding of archaeology, using computer methods as a supplement to field work