Privacy and Curiosity in Mobile Interactions with Public Displays.

Personal multimedia devices like mobile phones create new needs for larger displays distributed at specific points in the environment to look up information about the current place, playing games or exchanging multimedia data. The technical prerequisites are covered; however, using public displays always exposing information. In this paper we look at these issues from the privacy as well as from the curiosity perspective with several studies showing and confirming users’ reservations against public interactions. Interactive advertisements can exploit this best using specific types of interaction techniques

Possible correlation effects of surface state electrons on a solid hydrogen film

We have investigated the transport properties of surface state electrons on thin quench-condensed hydrogen films for various electron densities. The surface state electron mobility showed a continuous dependence on the plasma parameter Gamma in the range from 20 to 130, indicating a strong influence of correlation effects within the electron system for all measured values of Gamma

The case for an aggressive program of dark energy probes

The observed cosmic acceleration presents the physics and cosmology communities with amazing opportunities to make exciting, probably even radical advances in these fields. This topic is highly data driven and many of our opportunities depend on us undertaking an ambitious observational program. Here I outline the case for such a program based on both the exciting science related to the cosmic acceleration and the impressive impact that a strong observational program would have. Along the way, I challenge a number of arguments that skeptics use to question the value of a strong observational commitment to this field.Comment: 10 Pages including two figures. Plenary talk at PASCOS 0

Unique continuation estimates for Baouendi--Grushin equations on cylinders

We prove time-pointwise quantitative unique continuation estimates for the evolution operators associated to (fractional powers of) the Baouendi--Grushin operators on the cylinder $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{T}^d$. Corresponding spectral inequalities, relating for functions from spectral subspaces associated to finite energy intervals their $L^2$-norm on the whole cylinder to the $L^2$-norm on a suitable subset, and results on exact and approximate null-controllabilty are deduced. This extends and complements results obtained recently by the authors and by Jaming and Wang.Comment: 32 page

Quantitative spectral inequalities for the anisotropic Shubin operators and applications to null-controllability

We prove quantitative spectral inequalities for the (anisotropic) Shubin operators on the whole Euclidean space, thus relating for functions from spectral subspaces associated to finite energy intervals their $L^2$-norm on the whole space to the $L^2$-norm on a suitable subset. A particular feature of our estimates is that the constant relating these $L^2$-norms is very explicit in geometric parameters of the corresponding subset of the whole space, which may become sparse at infinity and may even have finite measure. This extends results obtained recently by J. Martin and, in the particular case of the harmonic oscillator, by A. Dicke, I. Veseli\'c, and the second author. We apply our results towards null-controllability of the associated parabolic equations, as well as to the ones associated to the (degenerate) Baouendi-Grushin operators acting on $\mathbb R^d\times\mathbb T^d$.Comment: 23 pages; title changed and added references. Major changes include new results on Baouendi-Grushin equation; previous results on the Grushin operator have been removed to appear in a separate pape

The Role of Power and Negotiation in Online Deception

The purpose of this paper is to advance theoretical understanding of the important role of both power and negotiation during online deception. By so doing, the paper provides insight into the relationship between perpetrator and victim in Internet fraud. The growing prevalence of Internet Fraud continues to be a burden to both society and individuals. In an attempt to better understand Internet fraud and online deception, this article attempts to build an interactive model, based upon the dimensions of power and negotiation from the management and psychology literature. Using the model presented, the article examines the effects of the Internet on the communication process that takes place between perpetrator and victim. Finally, the article discusses some of the major tactics employed to appeal to each power type in predominant fraud forms, as well exploring future types of fraud

Nutrition and Vascular Supply of Retinal Ganglion Cells during Human Development

Purpose: To review the roles of the different vascular beds nourishing the inner retina [retinal ganglion cells (RGCs)] during normal development of the human eye, using our own tissue specimens to support our conclusions. Methods: An extensive search of the appropriate literature included PubMed, Google scholar, and numerous available textbooks. In addition, choroidal and retinal NADPH-diaphorase stained whole mount preparations were investigated. Results: The first critical interaction between vascular bed and RGC formation occurs in the sixth to eighth month of gestation leading to a massive reduction of RGCs mainly in the peripheral retina. The first 3 years of age are characterized by an intense growth of the eyeball to near adult size. In the adult eye, the influence of the choroid on inner retinal nutrition was determined by examining the peripheral retinal watershed zones in more detail. Conclusion: This delicately balanced situation of RGC nutrition is described in the different regions of the eye, and a new graphic presentation is introduced to combine morphological measurements and clinical visual field data