We introduce and study the notion of non-interactive secure multiparty computation (NIMPC). An NIMPC protocol for a function f(x1, . . . , xn) is specified by a joint probability distribution R = (R1, . . . , Rn) and local encoding functions Enci(xi, ri), 1 ≤ i ≤ n. Given correlated randomness (r1, . . . , rn) ∈R R, each party Pi, using its input xi and its randomness ri, computes the message m...

In order to compare the efficiency of morphological traits and molecular markers in distinguishing the Consolida species, molecular analysis using nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnL-trnF with maximum parsimony and Bayesian methods were done in a total of 34 species and forma representing 28 species of Consolida, 6 species of Aconitella, plus two species of Delphinium and two species of Aconitum as out gr...

The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is the most widely used animal model of essential hypertension and accompanying metabolic disturbances. Recent advances in sequencing of genomes of BN-Lx and SHR progenitors of the BXH/HXB recombinant inbred (RI) strains as well as accumulation of multiple data sets of intermediary phenotypes in the RI strains, including mRNA and microRNA abundance, quan...

This study examined the conditions that lead to debris flows, and their association with rainfall return period (T) probability of flow occurrence (P) in Chenyulan watershed, central Taiwan. Several extreme events have occurred watershed past, including Chi-Chi earthquake events. The T for three indexes (i.e., maximum hourly depth (Im), 24-h amount (Rd), RI (RI = Im× Rd)) were analyzed, associa...

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Twenty four diverse cultivars of soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill) and three lines of its annual wild progenitor Glycine soja Sieb and Zucc. were tested for their response to Agrobacterium strains harboring either the Ti (tumor-inducing) plasmid (pTi) from Agrobacterium tumefaciens or the Ri (root-inducing) plasmid (pRi) from Agrobacterium rhizogenes following uniform wounding and inoculation....

While the identification of causal genes of quantitative trait loci (QTL) remains a difficult problem in the post-genome era, the number of QTL continues to accumulate, mainly identified using the recombinant inbred (RI) strains. Over the last decade, hundreds of publications have reported nearly a thousand QTL identified from RI strains. We hypothesized that the inaccuracy of most of these QTL...

Supervised datasets play a central role as standards against which to benchmark long-term progress in computer vision. Over the past decade, the PASCAL [2] and Berkeley segmentation datasets (BSDS) [3] have filled these roles for the object detection and image segmentation tasks, respectively. The type of annotation available for each dataset determines the particular visual subtasks to which i...

A lg e b ra i s a t o o l fo r re a s o n in g a b o u t q u a n ti ta ti v e s it u a ti o n s s o t h a t re la ti o n s h ip s b e c o m e a p p a re n t. A lg e b ra i s a t o o l fo r d e s c ri b in g a n d r e p re s e n ti n g p a tt e rn s a n d r e la ti o n s h ip s . T h e n u m e ri c a l v a lu e s o f a n e x p re s s io n a re d e p e n d e n t u p o n th e v a lu e s o f th e r...