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Betrayal, Distrust, and Rationality: Smart Counter-Collusion Contracts for Verifiable Cloud Computing [PDF]
, 2017 Cloud computing has become an irreversible trend. Together comes the pressing need for verifiability, to assure the client the correctness of computation outsourced to the cloud.
Aldweesh, Amjad +4 more
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A quantum protocol for cheat-sensitive weak coin flipping
, 2002 We present a quantum protocol for the task of weak coin flipping. We find that, for one choice of parameters in the protocol, the maximum probability of a dishonest party winning the coin flip if the other party is honest is 1/sqrt(2).
A. Ambainis +8 more
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Community Enforcement of Informal Contracts: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]
, 2002 The diamond industry is home to many unusual features: the predominance of an ethnically homogeneous community of merchants, the norm of intergenerational family businesses, and a rejection of public courts in favor of private contract enforcement.
Richman, Barak D.
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Correction to: Ethics, EdTech, and the Rise of Contract Cheating
, 2022 The original version of the book was inadvertently published with an incorrect line inthe Abstract in Chapter 9 (Ethics, EdTech, and the Rise of Contract Cheating). This has now been rectified and the line has been removed. The chapter and book have been updated with the changes.
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Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Gregory Slack
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This work explores the ways autistic individuals describe and perceive their friendship relationships. Through qualitative analysis of participants' accounts, I discuss the importance that autistic adults attribute to values of “comfort,” “acceptance,” and “trust” in their relationships with the people they call “friends” and explain the ...
Jad Brake
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Risk and the role of collateral in debt renegotiation [PDF]
In his basic model of debt renegotiation, BESTER [1994] argues that collateral is more effective if high risk projects are financed. This result, however, crucially depends on the definition of risk.
Neus, Werner, Stadler, Manfred
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A Role‐Mediated, Motivational Account of Interpersonal Trust
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social interactions rarely occur with persons in the abstract. Rather, we engage with parents, teachers, neighbours—that is, persons in various capacities, as occupants of social roles. If social interactions are role‐mediated, then interpersonal trust must also be directed at persons in their roles.
SuddhaSatwa GuhaRoy
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Corruption under moral hazard [PDF]
In this theoretical analysis, the"principal"can be the head of the tax collection agency (or"government"or even citizens), the"supervisor"can be the tax collector, and the"agent"can be the taxpayer.
Eskeland, Gunnar S., Thiele, Henrik
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