Introduction: The success of radiotherapy cancer treatment delivery depends on the accuracy of patient positioning for each treatment session. A number of kilovoltage x-ray volumetric imaging modalities with an additional source and detector have been developed to allow patient set-up verification based on the internal anatomy, but a significant portion of medical linacs are on...

Several anonymous authentication schemes allow servers to revoke a misbehaving user’s future accesses. Traditionally, these schemes have relied on powerful Trusted Third Parties (TTPs) capable of deanonymizing (or linking) users’ connections. Such TTPs are undesirable because users’ anonymity is not guaranteed, and users must trust them to judge ‘misbehavior’ fairly. Recent schemes such as Blac...

Anonymous authentication can give users the license to misbehave since there is no fear of retribution. As a deterrent or means to revocation, various schemes for accountable anonymity feature some kind of (possibly distributed) trusted third party (TTP) with the power to identify or link such misbehaving users. Recently, schemes such as BLAC, EPID, and PEREA showed how anonymous revocation can...

Oxfenicine is a carnitine-palmitoyl transferase 1b (CPT-1b)-specific inhibitor that has been shown to improve whole body insulin sensitivity while suppressing fatty acid (FA) oxidation and increasing circulating FA. Because the white adipose tissue (WAT) is an organ that stores and releases FAs, this study investigated whether oxfenicine-induced inhibition of FA oxidation affected adiposity and...