Privacy-preserving scheme for logistics systems based on 2D code and information hiding by Wen-bo YAN, Yuan-zhi YAO, Wei-ming ZHANG, Neng-hai YU

“…With regard to the user privacy leakage problem in existing logistics systems,a privacy-preserving scheme for logistics systems based on 2D code and information hiding was proposed.The information hiding tech-nique was used in the proposed scheme to embed the user privacy information into the 2D code on the logistics waybill to achieve access control.To secure the user privacy information,a JPEG image stenographic algorithm for 2D code was designed.Experimental results demonstrate that this algorithm can guarantee the high undetectable performance and the stego 2D code can be correctly decoded.Using the proposed scheme,the institution or the per-son that has the access right can obtain the important privacy information so that the express can be delivered cor-rectly and the user privacy can be preserved.…”
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Wives, Clerks, and 'Lady Diplomats': The Gendered Politics of Diplomacy and Representation in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940 by Molly M. Wood

“…State Department officials saw the need for additional clerical assistance, and increasingly relied on the work of women, as clerks and stenographers.  As employees of the U.S. State Department, these women also maintained the representative qualities associated with diplomatic work. …”
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Negotiating National Equality in the Austrian Silesian Diet 1905-1914 by Paula Krajnik

“…This article will provide an overview of the struggle for national equality and attempts at a national compromise in Silesia from the Moravian Compromise in 1905 until the closure of the provincial diet in 1914. By analyzing the stenographic minutes of the Silesian provincial diet, this article traces the attempts at national equalization and pacification, how members of the provincial parliament debated national equalization and pacification, and aims to identify the reasons for their failure of these attempts. …”
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Negotiating National Equality in the Austrian Silesian Diet 1905-1914 by Paula Krajnik

“…This article will provide an overview of the struggle for national equality and attempts at a national compromise in Silesia from the Moravian Compromise in 1905 until the closure of the provincial diet in 1914. By analyzing the stenographic minutes of the Silesian provincial diet, this article traces the attempts at national equalization and pacification, how members of the provincial parliament debated national equalization and pacification, and aims to identify the reasons for their failure of these attempts. …”
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