MedClone & Anti-Ids

Anti-Ids in Allergy: Timeliness of a Classic Concept

Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-ids) are part of natural immune responses with regulatory capacity. Their effect on an antigen-specific, so-called Ab1 antibody response, is dependent on 1) the original antigen, which they mirror, being Ab2 antibodies, and 2) their isotype. In the case of IgE-mediated allergy, natural anti-ids against allergen-specific IgE represent internal images of allergen m...

IDS: Immediate Dentin Sealing (IDS) for tooth preparations.

Payoff Based IDS Evaluation

IDS are regularly evaluated by comparing their false positive and false negative rates on ROC curves. However, this mechanism generally ignores both the context within which the IDS operates and the attacker’s own ability to adapt to IDS behavior. In this paper, we propose an alternative strategy for evaluating IDS based around multiple strategies. Each strategy defines how an attacker profits ...

Tamper-Resistant Biometric IDs

We present FaceCerts, a simple, inexpensive, and cryptographically secure identity certification system. A FaceCert is a printout of person’s portrait photo, an arbitrary textual message, and a 2-D color barcode which encodes an RSA signature of the message hash and the compressed representation of the face encompassed by the photo. The signature is created using the private key of the party is...

Influence of the Distribution of Tag IDs on RFID Memoryless Anti-Collision Protocols

In recent years, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become very popular. The main feature of this technology is that RFID tags do not require close handling and no line of sight is required between the reader and the tags. RFID is a technology that uses radio frequencies in order to identify tags, which do not need to be positioned accurately relative to the reader. Tags share the commun...