This study supplemented the National Air Emissions Monitoring Study (NAEMS) by making comprehensive measurements, over a full calendar year, of odor emissions from five swine and four dairy rooms/buildings (subset of the total number of buildings monitored for the NAEMS project). The measurements made in this project included both standard human sensory measurements using dynamic forced-choice ...

BACKGROUND Accessibility implies making public places accessible to every individual, irrespective of his or her disability or special need, ensuring the integration of the wheelchair user into the society and thereby granting them the capability of participating in activities of daily living and ensuring equality in daily life. OBJECTIVE This study was carried out to assess the accessibility...

ion holds, the following five things should be true, the first four are as follows: (T1) the top bid should be equally likely to arrive before or after the second-highest bid, (T2) the top two bids should not be exactly one bid increment apart too often, (T3) the difference between the top two bids should not be a function of which was placed first, and (T4) the difference between the top two b...

In modern times, people have paid more attention to their private information. The data confidentiality is very important in many economic aspects. In this paper, we proposed a secure auction system, in which the bids will not be revealed, and no one can fake the winning identity and the winner cannot change the winning bid. The communication cost of our scheme is low; only two rounds communica...

This paper reports two multitransducer vacuumsealed capacitive barometric pressure sensors, one using singlelead and the other using multiple-leads to transfer the electrical signal out of the vacuum-sealed reference cavity. The first device operates with a resolution of 37 mtorr over a pressure range from 600 to 800 torr. The sensitivity is 27 fF/torr (3000 ppm/torr). The TCO at 750 torr is 39...

The third in a series of guides intended to help medical device engineers in specific problem areas.

The auction scheme that provides receipt-freeness, prevents the bidders from bid-rigging by the coercers. Bid-rigging is a dangerous attack in electronic auction. This happen if the bidder gets a receipt of his bidding price, which proves his bidding prices, from the auction protocol. The coercers used to force the bidders to disclose their receipts and hence bidders lose the secrecy of their b...

Efficient general secure multiparty computation (MPC) protocols were previously proposed, and the combination with the efficient auction circuits achieves the efficient sealed-bid auctions with the full privacy and correctness. However, the combination requires that each bidder submits ciphertexts of bits representing his bid, and their zeroknowledge proofs. This cost amounts to about 80 multi-...