This paper details our experiences with successfully validating a trusted device at FIPS 140-1 Level 4—earning the world’s first certificate at this highest level. Over the last several years, our group designed and built a physically secure PCI card (the IBM 4758 [5]) containing a general-purpose processor with crypto support. However, for this device to function as a trusted platform for secu...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence and associations of mesenteric panniculitis (MP) using multi-detector CT (MDCT). METHODS This retrospective study included 4758 consecutive patients who underwent abdomino-pelvic MDCT between January 2012 and December 2014 at Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan. Radiological database was searched for MP diagnosis and patients with suspected MP were re...

BACKGROUND Although several studies have investigated the association between maternal exposure to air pollution and preterm birth, the results are inconsistent. The aim of this study was to further investigate the relation between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight (LBW) in an Iranian pregnant population. MATERIALS A...

Infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia harboring the fusion mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL)-AF4 is associated with a dismal prognosis and very brief latency. Our limited understanding of transformation by MLL-AF4 is reflected in murine models, which do not accurately recapitulate the human disease. Human models for MLL-AF4 disease do not exist. Hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells (HSPCs) represent...

In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a user obtains one of N records from a server, without the server learning what record was requested. Recent research in “practical PIR” has limited the players to the user and server and limited the user’s work to negotiating a session key (eg. as in SSL)— but then added a secure coprocessor to the server and required the secure coprocessor to encrypt/pe...

Four data sources are used in this article. 1) The Cape Area Panel Study1 (Lam et al 2006) is a random sample of 4758 young adults aged 14-22 in 2002 who live in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area. These young adults were interviewed first in 2002. A subset of 1360 young adults were reinterviewed in 2003, with the remainder reinterviewed in 2004, and all were reinterviewed in 2005. This paper util...

BackgroundEnvironmental noise pollution is regarded as a general stressor. Noise levels frequently exceed recommended by the World Health Organization in hospitals, especially operation room. The aim of this systematic review was to assess effects on patient outcome and performance room staff. In addition, perception attitude toward playing music room, which can increase levels, were assessed w...

Glacier ice-thickness measurement and distribution is one of the essential variables to assess present status glacier-water equivalent its volumetric reserve as well model future glacier dynamics under climate changing scenario. Yet, substantial gaps in ice thickness information exist for Himalayan glaciers. The study provides a long-term assessment (1965–2016) recessional area change patterns,...

background: although several studies have investigated the association between maternal exposure to air pollution and preterm birth, the results are inconsistent. the aim of this study was to further investigate the relation between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight (lbw) in an iranian pregnant population. materials an...

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC), in its many forms, has received theoretical attention for more than two decades, yielding many protocols for many settings. One common thread is that the protocols cannot in actuality use a Trusted Third Party (TTP), even though this is conceptually the simplest and most general way to solve SMC problems. Thus, current protocols involve only the direct playe...