Wo sterben Menschen?: Zur Frage des Sterbens in Institutionen

Zusammenfassung: In der Gesellschaft besteht eine große Differenz zwischen der Anzahl der Menschen, die sich als Sterbeort ihr Zuhause wünschen, und der Zahl der Fälle, in denen sich dieser Wunsch realisieren lässt. Nicht das Zuhause, sondern eine Institution wie das Krankenhaus, Pflege- oder Altenheim ist in westlichen Gesellschaften der häufigste Sterbeort. Doch wie verteilen sich die Sterbeorte wirklich? Zeigen sich soziale Regelmäßigkeiten des Sterbens in den verschiedenen Sterbeorten? Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den Sterbeort als soziales Phänomen. Vor dem Hintergrund des aktuellen Forschungsstands wird der zeitgenössische Diskurs über die Institutionalisierung des Sterbens kritisch diskutier

Using quantum oblivious transfer to cheat sensitive quantum bit commitment

It is well known that unconditionally secure bit commitment is impossible even in the quantum world. In this paper a weak variant of quantum bit commitment, introduced independently by Aharonov et al. [STOC, 2000] and Hardy and Kent [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004)] is investigated. In this variant, the parties require some nonzero probability of detecting a cheating, i.e. if Bob, who commits a bit b to Alice, changes his mind during the revealing phase then Alice detects the cheating with a positive probability (we call this property binding); and if Alice gains information about the committed bit before the revealing phase then Bob discovers this with positive probability (sealing). In our paper we give quantum bit commitment scheme that is simultaneously binding and sealing and we show that if a cheating gives epsilon advantage to a malicious Alice then Bob can detect the cheating with a probability Omega(epsilon^2). If Bob cheats then Alice's probability of detecting the cheating is greater than some fixed constant lambda>0. This improves the probabilities of cheating detections shown by Hardy and Kent and the scheme by Aharonov et al. who presented a protocol that is either binding or sealing, but not simultaneously both. To construct a cheat sensitive quantum bit commitment scheme we use a protocol for a weak quantum one-out-of-two oblivious transfer

Season Tickets on Sale for 1988-89 UD Art Series

News release announces that tickets are now on sale for the 1988-89 University of Dayton Arts Series

To Kick Against the Pricks: An Examination of the Oresteia and the Acts of the Apostles

The major themes found in the Oresteia and the books of Luke and Acts of the Apostles are compared. By focusing on the similarities found in the themes of Justice, Religion, and New versus Old, the reader may determine if the phrase in question is being used as a literary allusion in the book of Acts of the Apostles to the Oresteia trilogy. The author believes this to be the case and believes that to arrive at a full understanding of the literary meaning of the phrase in question, an understanding of the major themes of the Oresteia is necessary