BACKGROUND AND AIM Green tea and lotus hold several synergistic antioxidant compounds. This investigation aimed to assess the efficacy of green tea and green tea plus lotus vs. placebo multiple emulsions in healthy adults for controlling casual sebum secretions. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS After signing informed consents, twenty-two participants were registered in a single-blinded, placebo-contr...

In a multi-secret sharing scheme, several secret values are distributed among a set of n participants.In 2000 Chien et al.'s proposed a (t; n) multi-secret sharing scheme. Many storages and publicvalues required in Chien's scheme. Motivated by these concerns, some new (t; n) multi-secret sharingschemes are proposed in this paper based on the Lagrange interpolation formula for polynomials andcip...

secret is one of the key notions in studying the content of ibn 'arabi's mysticism. secret is a divine bounty which conferred upon the creatures by god and indicates a path stretching byond the reason. as an extension of secret god can be experienced by the mystic. of course undestanding god is a matter of faith and intuition and does not fit the medium of reason. the limits of langua...

Deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) can transmit secret messages between two parties without first generating a shared secret key. Compared with quantum key distribution (QKD), DSQC avoids the waste of qubits arising from basis reconciliation and thus reaches higher efficiency. In this paper, based on data block transmission and order rearrangement technologies, we propose a DSQC ...

-Steganography is a skill to convey the secret data in the digital images without getting any unexpected notices to attackers. LSB replacement, the simplest method, directly replaces the secret bits with LSB bit plane. Unfortunately, it is insecure because it cannot resist against the visual attacks and statistic detection. The original work was proposed by Chang et al. in 2010, and their work ...

This paper proposes a dynamic multiparty to quantum secret sharing scheme, where two distant groups of participants can share the common secrets. In our present trusted third party is required reliably prepare all resources. Each agent only needs perform local unitary operations or single-particle measurement completing process sharing. Secret be recovered if agents cooperate each other. Furthe...

Nonperfect secret sharing schemes (NSSs) have an advantage such that the size of shares can be shorter than that of perfect secret sharing schemes. This paper shows some basic properties of general NSS. First, we present a necessary and su cient condition on the existence of an NSS. Next, we show two bounds of the size of shares, a combinatorial type bound and an entropy type bound. Further, we...

Tonal, non-vocal sounds are widespread in both ordinary bird flight and communication displays. We hypothesized these sounds are attributable to an aerodynamic mechanism intrinsic to flight feathers: aeroelastic flutter. Individual wing and tail feathers from 35 taxa (from 13 families) that produce tonal flight sounds were tested in a wind tunnel. In the wind tunnel, all of these feathers could...

Morphometrics (culmen length, bill height, bill width, wing chord length, and tarsus length) were taken on 664 marbled murrelets at Desolation Sound and Mussel Inlet, British Columbia, during 1994 to 1997, in order to assess morphological differences within and between populations and the accuracy of a discriminant function analysis to identify the sex of birds. An assessment of interand intra-...