OBJECTIVE Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationship between (a) the manual abilities of children with cerebral palsy (CP), assessed with the Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) in a school rehabilitation setting, and (b) the children's performance of self-care activities at home, assessed with the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI). In addition, we asses...

Complement membrane attack complexes (MACs) promote inflammatory functions in endothelial cells (ECs) by stabilizing NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) and activating noncanonical NF-κB signaling. Here we report a novel endosome-based signaling complex induced by MACs to stabilize NIK. We found that, in contrast to cytokine-mediated activation, NIK stabilization by MACs did not involve cIAP2 or TRAF3....

We propose message authentication codes (MACs) that combine a block cipher and an additional (keyed or unkeyed) permutation. Our MACs are provably secure if the block cipher is pseudorandom and the additional permutation has a small differential probability. We also demonstrate that our MACs are easily implemented with AES and its 4-round version to obtain MACs that are provably secure and 1.4 ...

AbsImcl--This paper pmposes a multiagent contml system (MACS) for a fossil-fuel power unit (FFPU). The MACS consists of fossil-fuel power unit agent (FFPUA), reference agent (RA), feedforward contml agents (FFCAs), feedback contml agents (FBCAs) and coordinator agent (COA). The reference agent decomposes the task of the MACS hy multiobjective optimization. The FFCAs make decision using the neur...

The concept of novel responsive materials with a displacement conversion capability was further developed through the design of new machine-augmented composites (MACs). Embedded converter machines and MACs with improved geometry were designed and fabricated by multi-material 3D printing. This technique proved to be very effective in fabricating these novel composites with tuneable elastic modul...

Reducing an automobile’s energy consumption will lower its dependency on fossil fuel and extend the travel range of electric vehicles. Automobile Climate Control Systems (CCS) are known to be heavy energy consumers. To help reduce CCS energy consumption, this paper presents an adaptive automated agent, MDP Agent for Climate control Systems – MACS, which provides drivers advice as to how to set ...

Isolation of different cell types from one sample by fluorescence activated cell sorting is standard but expensive and time consuming. Magnetic separation is more cost effective and faster by but requires substantial effort. An innovative pluriBead-cascade cell isolation system (pluriSelect GmbH, Leipzig, Germany) simultaneously separates two or more different cell types. It is based on antibod...

ANSI X9.24-1:2009 specifies the key check value, which is used to verify the integrity of the blockcipher key. This value is defined as the most significant bits of the ciphertext of the zero block, and is assumed to be publicly known data for verification. ISO/IEC 9797-1:2011 illustrates a total of ten CBC MACs, where one of these MACs, the basic CBC MAC, is widely known to be insecure. In thi...

(define (problem macs-prob) (:domain macs-example) (:objects region1_left region2_left region1_right region switchRegion switchRegion doorRegionLeft doorRegionRight doorRegion rightRoom room leftRoom switchRoom ) (:init (inRoom region1_left leftRoom) ... (robotAt region1_left) (liftable region1_left) (switch-triggerable switchRegion)) (:goal (robotAt doorRegionRight))) Problem Definition

Real-time, cross-sectional echocardiographic studies of the aortic valve were performed in 28 children with congenital valvular aortic stenosis and in 22 normal subjects. The presence of a stenotic valve was indicated by increase in echo production, abnormal motion pattern, and abnormal systolic position of the valve leaflets. Comparison of the maximum aortic cusp separation (MACS) to calculate...