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Thank you to our reviewers 2017

Thank You to Our 2017 Reviewers.

Fair Exchange with Guardian Angels

In this paper we propose a new probabilistic Fair Exchange Protocol which requires no central Trusted Third Party. Instead, it relies on a virtually distributed and decentralized Trusted Third Party which is formalized as a Guardian Angel: a kind of Observer e.g. a tamper proof security device. We thus introduce a network model with Pirates and Guardian Angels which is well suited for Ad Hoc ne...

2017 Year in Review and Message from the Editors to Our Reviewers

Next-generation sequencing is revolutionizing identification of novel disease genes and patient diagnosis. Ribonuclease H1 (RNASEH1) digests the RNA present in RNA:DNA hybrids and is present in the nucleus and mitochondria. Bugiardini et al. screened genomic DNAs from 74 probands with multiple deletions/depletion in muscle mtDNA and mendelian progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO). They ide...