To investigate the distribution and dynamics of microbial community in anaerobic digestion at agitated and non-agitated condition, 454 pyrosequencing of 16s rRNA was conducted. It revealed the distinct community compositions between the two digesters and their progressive shifting over time. Methanogens and syntrophic bacteria were found much less abundant in the agitated digester, which was ma...

This paper proposes feature augmentation methods using unlabeled data and several Named Entity (NE) extractors. We collect NE-related information of each word (which we call NE-related labels) from unlabeled data by using NE extractors. NE-related labels which we collect include candidate NE class labels of each word and NE class labels of co-occurring words. To accurately collect the NE-relate...

We present positive and negative results of fuzzy extractors with computational security. As a negative result, we show that, under a certain computational condition, the existence of a computational fuzzy extractor implies the existence of an information-theoretic fuzzy extractor with slightly weaker parameters. The condition is that the generation procedure of the fuzzy extractor is efficient...

Trevisan has shown that constructions of pseudo-random generators from hard functions (the Nisan-Wigderson approach) also produce extractors. We show that constructions of pseudo-random generators from one-way permutations (the Blum-Micali-Yao approach) can be used for building extractors as well. Using this new technique we build extractors that do not use designs and polynomial-based error-co...