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    End-to-end encryption of modern messaging

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    Met moderne hackingtools is het niet langer voldoende om cryptografische sleutels te lang in de buurt te houden, met oude cryptografische algoritmen, als een sleutel wordt gelekt, wordt de meeste communicatie gecompromitteerd, nieuwe algoritmen bestrijden dit door sleutels vaak te roteren. Voor client-servercommunicatie is dit probleem niet moeilijk, aangezien zowel client als server altijd online zijn en nieuwe sleutels snel kunnen worden berekend. Met moderne end-to-end versleutelde (E2EE) messaging, zoals bij Signal en Whatsapp, zijn de deelnemende partijen mogelijk niet tegelijkertijd online. Om dit op te lossen, roteren moderne E2E hybride cryptografische algoritmen automatisch sleutels op een asynchrone manier. In dit proefschrift worden verschillende van deze algoritmen uitgelegd, waaronder het aandrijfalgoritme achter Signal en Whatsapp: het Double Ratchet Algorithm. Om deze algoritmen beter te begrijpen en waarom ze nodig zijn, wordt informatie gegeven over de doelen die ze proberen te bereiken en welke meer basale algoritmen worden gebruikt als bouwstenen om de moderne hybride cryptografische algoritmen te construeren. Dit proefschrift biedt ook een interactieve visualisatietool die laat zien hoe de cryptografische sleutels worden gegenereerd in het Double-Ratchet-algoritme

    Progressive Network Streaming of Textured Meshes in the Binary glTF 2.0 Format

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    The glTF 2.0 graphics format allows for the API-neutral representation of 3D scenes consisting of one or multiple textured meshes. It is currently adopted as one of two file formats for 3D asset interop-erability by the Metaverse Standards Forum. glTF 2.0 has however not been designed to be streamable over the network; instead, glTF 2.0 files typically first need to be downloaded fully before their contents can be rendered locally. This can lead to high start-up delays which in turn can lead to user frustration. This paper therefore contributes a methodology and associated Web-based client, implemented in JavaScript on top of the three.js rendering engine, that allows to stream glTF 2.0 files from a content server to the consuming client up to the level of individual glTF bufferviews. This in turn facilitates the progressive client-side rendering of 3D scenes, meaning that scene rendering can already commence while the glTF file is still being downloaded. The proposed methodology is conceptually compliant with the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) paradigm that dominates the contemporary market of over-the-top video streaming. Experimental results show that our methodology is most beneficial when network throughput is limited (e.g., 20Mbps). In all, our work represents an important step towards making 3D content faster accessible to consuming (Web) clients, akin to the way platforms like YouTube have brought universal accessibility for video content

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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