This paper reports on the results of a first computerized tomography (CT)-based study of the Middle Pleistocene matrix-filled skull KNM-ES 11693 from Eliye Springs at Lake Turkana. Ectocranially, the hominid cranium exhibits a remarkable enlargement of the vault symmetrical to the sagittal suture and a porotic surface covering most of the vault. CT analysis further revealed a strong thickening ...

Vault particles are naturally occurring proteinaceous cages with promising application as molecular containers. The use of vaults as functional transporters requires a profound understanding of their structural stability to guarantee the protection and controlled payload delivery. Previous results performed with bulk techniques or at non-physiological conditions have suggested pH as a parameter...

Fuzzy vault is a well-known technique to address the privacy concerns in biometric identification applications. We revisit the fuzzy vault scheme to address implementation, efficiency, and security issues encountered in its realization. We use the fingerprint data as a case study. We compare the performances of two different methods used in the implementation of fuzzy vault, namely brute force ...

Long polling is a technique that simulates server push using Ajax requests, allowing Web pages to be updated quickly in response to server events. Unfortunately, existing long poll approaches are difficult to use, do not work well with server-side frameworks based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and are not scalable. Vault is an architecture for long polling that integrates cleanly ...

The mission objective of the Phobos Sample Return is to collect and return 100 g Phobos’ surface material Earth inside a tight enclosure composed Vault, Container sealing elements. One important aspect project was development closing mechanism capable ensuring pushing force high enough compared available robotic arm (40 N). need for higher derived from design tests which were carried out experi...

To the Editor: In their recent article, Reinstein et al.1 described the use of the Artemis 2 very high frequency digital ultrasound (ArcScan, Inc., Morrison, CO) to calculate the fit of the Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL). Another parameter previously proposed as influencing ICL vaulting is the crystalline lens anterior radius of curvature (ALR).2 The ALR has not yet been used in any pre...

Fuzzy vault is a practical and promising scheme, which can protect biometric templates and perform secure key management simultaneously. Alignment of the template biometric sample and the query one in the encrypted domain remains a challenging task. While implementing fuzzy fingerprint vault, the accuracy of alignment in encrypted domain cannot be ensured and the information leakage may be caus...