‘On’Line or ‘Off’Line …. does the ‘Line’ or the ‘Communication’ matter most?

Online/Offline OR Composition of Sigma Protocols

Proofs of partial knowledge allow a prover to prove knowledge of witnesses for k out of n instances of NP languages. Cramer, Schoenmakers and Damg̊ard [CDS94] provided an efficient construction of a 3-round public-coin witness-indistinguishable (k, n)-proof of partial knowledge for any NP language, by cleverly combining n executions of Σ-protocols for that language. This transform assumes that a...

Addressing the Dilemma in ESP Teaching: The English Language Teacher or the Subject-matter Specialist?

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (TESP) has been a controversial issue among EFL teachers and others. The question raised by many is whether the English language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach ESP courses. The main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. To this end, 60 second-year students majoring in Feqh and Islamic Law at Islamic Azad Unive...

Hibernation or repetitive stunning – does it matter? The basic perspective

The long-lasting controversy on whether the contractile dysfunction observed in patients with coronary artery disease reflects hibernation – that is, a regulatory adaptation to persistent ischemia – or stunning – that is, an accumulation of reversible damage due to repeated periods of ischemia/reperfusion – is resolved. The perfect adaptation to persistent ischemia as seen experimentally can no...

Diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance: does the label matter?

ExpLOriNg caNcEr idENtitiEs: dOEs thE LabEL “patiENt” Or “surViVOr” mattEr?

s138. This study empirically evaluated whether there is an important distinction between the labels “cancer survivor” and “cancer patient.” Conducted at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, this study examined whether these labels were associated with distinct correlates, including an individual’s identity, sense of self, stressor experiences, subjective wellbeing and health-related ...