We have contacted single wall carbon nanotubes grown by chemical vapor deposition to super-conducting Ti/Al/Ti electrodes. The device, we here report on is in the Kondo regime exhibiting a four-fold shell structure, where a clear signature of the superconducting electrodes is observed below the critical temperature. Multiple Andreev reflections are revealed by sub-gap structure and a narrow pea...

Despite the growing growth of technology, handwritten signature has been selected as the first option between biometrics by users. In this paper, a new methodology for offline handwritten signature verification and recognition based on the Shearlet transform and transfer learning is proposed. Since, a large percentage of handwritten signatures are composed of curves and the performance of a sig...

Introduction: Uniquely high levels of phosphorus and titanium were observed in several samples [1-3] by the APXS x-ray fluorescence measurements as the MER Spirit rover climbed Husband Hill (Columbia Hills, Gusev crater, Mars). A careful study of many such samples and their geochemical variability has revealed additional elements in this pattern, and that the derived multi-element signature is ...

Proxy signature is a special signature which provided the signer can delegate his signing capability to others. The proxy signature provides that the original signer can delegate his signing permission to a proxy signer, and the proxy signer can replace the original signer to sign the message. In this paper, we propose a proxy signature scheme based on ideas from classical proxy signature schem...

A group undeniable signature scheme is proposed in which each group member can sign on behalf of the group without revealing his or her identity and the verification of a signature can only be done with the cooperation of the group manager. For business applications, group undeniable signatures can be used to validate price lists, press release or digital contracts when the signatures are comme...

BACKGROUND The ATP7A gene encodes the ATP7A protein, which is a trans-Golgi network copper transporter expressed in the brain and other organs. Mutations in this gene cause disorders of copper metabolism, such as Menkes disease. Here we describe the novel and unusual mutation (p.T1048I) in the ATP7A gene of a child with Menkes disease. The mutation affects a conserved DKTGT1048 phosphorylation ...

Objective The aim of this study was to describe the ultrasound features of benign and malignant thyroid nodules and evaluate the likelihood of malignancy associated with each feature according to the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology and histopathology. With this analysis, we propose a new TI-RADS classification system. Materials and methods The likelihood of malignancy from...

In the proxy signatures an original signer delegates his signing rights to the other entity but in a self proxy signature scheme, user delegates his signing rights to himself and generates the temporary key pairs. In a self proxy signature, a user can generate multiple number of temporary keys (depending on the application), so as to prevent the exposure of his private key from repeated use. Th...