Human jaw periosteum tissue contains osteoprogenitors that have potential for tissue engineering applications in oral and maxillofacial surgeries. To isolate osteoprogenitor cells from heterogeneous cell populations, we used the specific mesenchymal stem cell antigen-1 (MSCA-1) antibody and compared two magnetic separation methods. We analyzed the obtained MSCA-1(+) and MSCA-1(-) fractions in t...

OBJECTIVE It is believed that monocyte isolation methods and maturation factors affect the phenotypic and functional characteristics of resultant dendritic cells (DC). In the present study, we compared two monocyte isolation methods, including plastic adherence-dendritic cells (Adh-DC) and magnetic activated cell sorting- dendritic cells (MACS-DC), and their effects on phagocytic activity of di...

Computationally intensive inference tasks of deep neural networks have brought about a revolution in accelerator architecture, aiming to reduce power consumption as well latency. The key figure-of-merit hardware accelerators is the number multiply-and-accumulation operations per watt (MACs/W); state-of- the-art MACs/W, so far, has been several hundreds Giga-MACs/W. We propose Tera- MACS/W (TMA)...

John Fahey was one of the first investigators to study the then-new acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). He made major contributions to the design of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), and vigorously promoted novel and high-quality science as the MACS evolved. His contributions are highly valued.

Assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs) have become the treatment of choice in many cases of infertility; however, the current success rates of these procedures remain suboptimal. Programmed cell death (apoptosis) most likely contributes to failed ART and to the decrease in sperm quality after cryopreservation. There is a likelihood that some sperm selected for ART will display features of apop...

One of the ways of haploid production is a cross between wheat and maize. Recently success has been achieved in this method, leading to the production of zygotes; these zygotes generally undergo elimination of maize chromosomes and thus lead to production of wheat haploid plant. The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient method of haploid production via maize pollination in short dur...

A new type of attack on Message Authentication Codes (MACs) is introduced which takes advantage of possible weaknesses in interfaces to hardware security modules. In particular, if a module does not fix the degree of MAC truncation employed, then potentially serious attacks are possible.

In today’s lecture we study one-time message authentication codes (MACs) which are secure in an information-theoretic sense. We will see that, compared to informationtheoretically secure encryption, significantly better parameters can be achieved. We will also study such MACs in the setting of imperfect randomness, i.e. when the secret key is not drawn from the uniform distribution but rather i...