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10 papers
Impossibility of Quantum Private Queries
Esther Hänggi, Severin Winkler
Symmetric private information retrieval is a cryptographic task allowing a user to query a database and obtain exactly one entry without revealing to the owner of the database whic…
Are We Entering a Paradigm Shift for Dark Matter?
James Schombert
While the LCDM framework has been incredibly successful for modern cosmology, it requires the admission of two mysterious substances as a part of the paradigm, dark energy and dark…
Propensity-to-Pay: Machine Learning for Estimating Prediction Uncertainty
Md Abul Bashar, Astin-Walmsley Kieren, Heath Kerina +1
Predicting a customer's propensity-to-pay at an early point in the revenue cycle can provide organisations many opportunities to improve the customer experience, reduce hardship an…
Introductory Astronomy as a Measure of Grade Inflation
James Schombert
We use four years of introductory astronomy scores to analyze the ability of the current population to perform college level work and measure the amount of grade inflation across v…
Network Tools for Astronomical Data Retrieval
James Schombert
The first step in a science project is the acquisition and understanding of the relevant data. This paper outlines the results of a project to design and test network tools specifi…
Tests of Chemical Enrichment Scenarios in Ellipticals Using Continuum Colors and Spectroscopy
J. Schombert, K. Rakos
We combine spectroscopic metallicity values with integrated narrowband continuum colors to explore the internal metallicity distribution in early-type galaxies. The different techn…