Mechanical exfoliation techniques are widely used to create high quality graphene samples
for analytical use. Increasingly, mechanical methods are used to create large quantities of …

Determining distributions of the functions of random variables is one of the most important
problems in statistics and applied mathematics because distributions of functions have wide …

In modern civilization information, security is a crucial problem. Image encryption and
watermarking can effectively protect information from unauthorized access. This paper …

This thesis analyzes whether and how an auctioneer who is aware that a ring of colluding
bidders is present at the auction should reveal this information to other nonring bidders. We …

Methods to generate random correlation matrices have been proposed in the literature, but
very few instances exist where these correlation matrices are structured or where the …