The blood-tumor barrier (BTB) restricts the efficient delivery of anti-glioma drugs to cranial glioma tissues. Increased BTB permeability may allow greater delivery of the therapeutic agents. Increasing evidence has revealed that PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) play an important role in tumor progression. However, whether PIWI proteins and piRNAs regulate BTB permeability remai...

Suppose a database containing M records is replicated across N servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to T servers. A scheme designed for this purpose is called a private information retrieval (PIR) scheme. In practice, capacity-achieving and small sub-packetization are both desired ...

Because the number of post-translational modifications requiring standardized annotation in the PIR-International Protein Sequence Database was large and steadily increasing, a database of protein structure modifications was constructed in 1993 to assist in producing appropriate feature annotations for covalent binding sites, modified sites and cross-links. In 1995 RESID was publicly released a...

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a way for clients to query a remote database without the database holder learning the clients’ query terms or the responses they generate. Compelling applications for PIR are abound in the cryptographic and privacy research literature, yet existing PIR techniques are notoriously inefficient. Consequently, no such PIRbased application to date has seen real-...

We consider the problem of private information retrieval through wiretap channel II (PIR-WTC-II). In PIR-WTC-II, a user wants to retrieve a single message (file) privately out of M messages, which are stored in N replicated and non-communicating databases. An external eavesdropper observes a fraction μn (of its choice) of the traffic exchanged between the nth database and the user. In addition ...

iran central plateau is considered to be historically important due to the remained religious, historical, and cultural locations survived from ages ago. abarkuh, as one of the towns in yazd province, and the one which is 140 kilometers far from the center of the province, is considered to be historically important. moreover, this city is geographically related to esfahan and shiraz. since this...

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic, k-server PIR protocols the database is replicated among k servers, and each server learns nothing about the item the user retrieves. The cost of such protocols is measured by the communication complexity...

This document describes how to implement a passive infrared (PIR) motion detector using Freescale's low-cost RS08KA microcontroller family. The base function of this design is to switch on appliances, especially lighting, in response to movement. The main idea behind this solution is to replace the common analog motion detector with an ultra low-cost digital design, based on the MC9RS08KA1. The...

The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the resting bioelectrical activity of the upper trapezius muscle (the UT muscle) before and after one of the two interventions: postisometric muscle relaxation (PIR) and Kinesio Taping (KT). Moreover a comparison between group results was conducted. From the initial 61 volunteers, 52 were selected after exclusion criteria and were allocated randomly...

Informally, private information retrieval for k >= 1 databases (k-PIR) is an interactive scheme that enables a user to make access to (separated) k replicated copies of a database and privately retrieve any single bit out of the n bits of data stored in the database. In this model, “privacy” implies that the user retrieves the bit he is interested in but releases to each database nothing about ...