Universal hash functions (UHFs) have been extensively used in the design of cryptographic schemes. If we consider the related-key attack (RKA) against these UHF-based schemes, some of them may not be secure, especially those using the key of UHF as a part of the whole key of scheme, due to the weakness of UHF in the RKA setting. In order to solve the issue, we propose a new concept of related-k...

In contrast to animals, in which the germ cell lineage is established during embryogenesis, plant germ cells are generated in reproductive organs via reprogramming of somatic cells. The factors that control germ cell differentiation and reprogramming in plants are poorly understood. Members of the RKD subfamily of plant-specific RWP-RK transcription factors have been implicated in egg cell form...

In recent years, there has been a great deal of research in developing end-to-end speech recognition models, which enable simplifying the traditional pipeline and achieving promising results. Despite their remarkable performance improvements, models typically require expensive computational cost to show successful performance. To reduce this burden, knowledge distillation (KD), is popular model...

Background: Purine catabolism may be an unappreciated, but important component of the homeostatic response of mitochondria to oxidant stress. Accumulating evidence suggests a pivotal role of oxidative stress in schizophrenia pathology. Methodology/Principal Findings: Using high-pressure liquid chromatography coupled with a coulometric multi-electrode array system, we compared 6 purine metabolit...

We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of interest is a known, deterministic, but kinked function of an observed assignment variable. This design arises in many institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially endogenous assignment variable (lik...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Clostridial neurotoxins are among the most toxic substances known and cause severe illnesses in both humans and animals. A neurotoxigenic Clostridium sp. (strain RKD) isolated from intestine of decaying fish produced a novel, botulinum type B like neurotoxin as suggested by mouse bioassay, protection with anti-botulinum antibodies and PCR. The aim of the present investig...

Diterbitkannya Undang-Undang Nomor 8 Tahun 2014 tentang Desa telah menumbuhkan optimisme bagi percepatan pembangunan desa di Indonesia. Akan tetapi, permasalahan-permasalahan yang bersifat teknis seperti penyaluran dana terlambat dari pemerintah daerah, tahapan membatasi keleluasaan penggunaan desa, hingga keterbatasan kapasitas sumber daya manusia dalam memenuhi tuntutan beban administratif ti...

The kd-tree is used in various applications, such as photon simulation with photon maps, or normal estimation in point sets for reconstruction, in order to perform fast n-closest neighbour searches in huge, static data sets of point sets of arbitrary dimensions. In a number of cases, where lower dimensional point sets are embedded in higher dimensional spaces, it has been shown that the vantage...

ABBREVIATIONS IQR: interquartile range IVIG: intravenous immunoglobulin KD: Kawasaki disease PHIS: Pediatric Health Information System rKD: refractory Kawasaki disease sKD: standard Kawasaki disease www.hospitalpediatrics.org doi:10.1542/hpeds.2011-0011-2 Dr Ghelani was responsible for the study design, data collection, interpretation of data, statistical analysis, and manuscript writing; Mr Pa...