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Measuring regional progress: regional index of sustainable economic well-being (R-ISEW) for all the English regions
This report describes the development and application of a Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Well-Being (R-ISEW), and calculates it for all English regions
On the Feasibility of Fine-Grained TLS Security Configurations in Web Browsers Based on the Requested Domain Name
Most modern web browsers today sacrifice optimal TLS security for backward
compatibility. They apply coarse-grained TLS configurations that support (by
default) legacy versions of the protocol that have known design weaknesses, and
weak ciphersuites that provide fewer security guarantees (e.g. non Forward
Secrecy), and silently fall back to them if the server selects to. This
introduces various risks including downgrade attacks such as the POODLE attack
[15] that exploits the browsers silent fallback mechanism to downgrade the
protocol version in order to exploit the legacy version flaws. To achieve a
better balance between security and backward compatibility, we propose a
mechanism for fine-grained TLS configurations in web browsers based on the
sensitivity of the domain name in the HTTPS request using a whitelisting
technique. That is, the browser enforces optimal TLS configurations for
connections going to sensitive domains while enforcing default configurations
for the rest of the connections. We demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal
by implementing a proof-of-concept as a Firefox browser extension. We envision
this mechanism as a built-in security feature in web browsers, e.g. a button
similar to the \quotes{Bookmark} button in Firefox browsers and as a
standardised HTTP header, to augment browsers security
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The 2009 R-ISEW (regional index of sustainable economic well-being) for all the English regions
This latest report presents new data calculated in 2009 for the years 1994–2007. The data, which also includes the updating of several sets of figures that previously had to be estimated for 2006, show that a nine-year increase in the English R-ISEW since 1994, began to peter out in 2003, such that total per capita growth between 2003 and 2007 was only 2.4%. Indeed, between 2005 and 2006, per capita R-ISEW fell slightly
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The 2010 R-ISEW (regional index of sustainable economic well-being) for all the English regions
This is the fourth consecutive report presenting R-ISEW (regional index of sustainable economic well-being) calculations for the nine Government Office Regions (GORs) of England.1 New data available in the summer of 2010 allows a continuous time series from 1994 to 2008 – 15 years. Because of the nature of the data required for the R-ISEW, there is always a two-year lag before results for any given year can be completed
Phenomenology from a U(1) gauged hidden sector
We consider the phenomenological consequences of a hidden Higgs sector
extending the Standard Model (SM), in which the matter content are uncharged
under the SM gauge groups. We consider a simple case where the hidden sector is
gauged under a U(1) with one Higgs singlet. The only couplings between SM and
the hidden sector are through mixings between the neutral gauge bosons of the
two respective sectors, and between the Higgs bosons. We find signals testable
at the LHC that can reveal the existence and shed light on the nature of such a
hidden sector.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at the Lake Louise Winter Institute
2007, Feb. 19-24, Alberta, Canad
Testing Realistic Quark Mass Matrices in the Custodial Randall-Sundrum Model with Flavor Changing Top Decays
We study quark mass matrices in the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with bulk
symmetry . The Yukawa couplings are
assumed to be within an order of magnitude of each other, and perturbative. We
find that quark mass matrices of the symmetrical form proposed by Koide
\textit{et. al.} [Y. Koide, H. Nishiura, K. Matsuda, T. Kikuchi and T.
Fukuyama, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 66}, 093006 (2002)] can be accommodated in the RS
framework with the assumption of hierarchyless Yukawa couplings, but not the
hermitian Fritzsch-type mass matrices. General asymmetrical mass matrices are
also found which fit well simultaneously with the quark masses and the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. Both left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH)
quark rotation matrices are obtained that allow analysis of flavour changing
decay of both LH and RH top quarks. At a warped down scale of 1.65 TeV, the
total branching ratio of t \ra Z + jets can be as high as for symmetrical mass matrices and for
asymmetrical ones. This level of signal is within reach of the LHC.Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures. Reference added, typos corrected, discussions in
Sec. IV B expanded. Version conforms to the published versio
A Very Narrow Shadow Extra Z-boson at Colliders
We consider the phenomenological consequences of a hidden Higgs sector
extending the Standard Model (SM), in which the ``shadow Higgs'' are uncharged
under the SM gauge groups. We consider a simple U(1) model with one Higgs
singlet. One mechanism which sheds light on the shadow sector is the mixing
between the neutral gauge boson of the SM and the additional U(1) gauge group.
The mixing happens through the usual mass-mixing and also kinetic-mixing, and
is the only way the ``shadow '' couples to the SM. We study in detail
modifications to the electroweak precision tests (EWPTs) that the presence of
such a shadow sector would bring, which in turn provide constraints on the
kinetic-mixing parameter, , left free in our model. The shadow
production rate at the LHC and ILC depends on . We find that
observable event rate at both facilities is possible for a reasonable range of
allowed by EWPTs.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Note and refs. adde
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