In a seminal paper, Dolev et al. [15] introduced the notion of non-malleable encryption (NM-CPA). This notion is very intriguing since it suffices for many applications of chosen-ciphertext secure encryption (IND-CCA), and, yet, can be generically built from semantically secure (IND-CPA) encryption, as was shown in the seminal works by Pass et al. [29] and by Choi et al. [9], the latter of whic...

Collagen proportionate area (CPA, %) is used to quantify liver fibrosis. Here, we assessed CPA performance sub-classify cirrhosis. was measured in explanted livers from consecutively transplanted patients for hepatitis C virus-related Model end-stage disease (MELD), Child-Pugh score and decompensating events (ascites, variceal bleeding, non-obstructive jaundice encephalopathy) were recorded at ...

Mast cell carboxypeptidase A (Mc-cpa) is a highly conserved secretory granule protease. The onset of expression in mast cell progenitors and lineage specificity suggest an important role for Mc-cpa in mast cells. To address the function of Mc-cpa, we generated Mc-cpa-null mice. Mc-cpa-/- mast cells lacked carboxypeptidase activity, revealing that Mc-cpa is a nonredundant enzyme. While Mc-cpa-/-...

An improved direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dc-ELISA) was developed for the analysis of cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) in corn, peanuts, and mixed feed. Two new approaches were used for the preparation of enzyme markers; one involved coupling CPA-bovine serum albumin (CPA-BSA) conjugate to horseradish peroxidase (HRP) using either the glutaraldehyde (GA) or the periodate (PI) me...

The effect of p-CPA and 5-HTP followed by p-CPA on sleep was studied in rats with olfactory bulb lesions (O.B. lesioned rats). In these rats, electrodes were chronically implanted to record the EEG (frontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus), the cervical electromyogram and eye movements. The REM sleep stage was selectively decreased from 24 to 32 hours after 200 mg/kg of p-CPA in the sham lesioned...

A many-body coherent potential approximation (CPA) previously developed for the double exchange (DE) model is extended to include coupling to local quantum phonons. The Holstein-DE model studied (equal to the Holstein model for zero Hund coupling) is considered to be a simple model for the colossal magnetoresistance manganites. We concentrate on eeects due to the quantisation of the phonons, su...

We prove that the Covering Property Axiom CPA prism, which holds in the iterated perfect set model, implies that there exists an additive discontinuous almost continuous function f : R → R whose graph is of measure zero. We also show that, under CPA prism, there exists a Hamel basis H for which, E+(H), the set of all linear combinations of elements from H with positive rational coefficients, is...

Tumor cells become sensitive to the inert prodrug cyclophosphamide (CPA) after transfer of the gene encoding cytochrome P450 2B1. This enzyme activates CPA into 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide, which ultimately degrades into acrolein and phosphoramide mustard, the anticancer and DNA-alkylating metabolite. It is imperative that any prodrug-activating gene therapy strategy against cancer possess the ca...

The negative affective state of opiate abstinence plays an important role in craving and relapse to compulsive drug use. The dopamine system participates in the reward effects of opiate use and the aversive effect of opiate abstinence. The amygdala is an essential neural substrate for associative learning of emotion. To establish a model of conditioned place aversion (CPA) in morphine-treated r...

PURPOSE Analyses used data from an extended longitudinal study to examine the relationship between childhood physical and sexual abuse (CPA and CSA, respectively) and adolescent and adult smoking behavior. Two questions guided the study: (1) Is there an association between childhood abuse and adolescent and adult smoking behavior? (2) Does the relationship between childhood abuse and later ciga...