We consider secure multi-party computation in the asynchronous model and present an efficient protocol with optimal resilience. For n parties, up to t < n/3 of them being corrupted, and security parameter κ, a circuit with c gates can be securely computed with communication complexity O(cnκ) bits. In contrast to all previous asynchronous protocols with optimal resilience, our protocol requires ...

A pressing scientific challenge is to understand how brains work. Of particular interest is the neocortex, the part of the brain that is especially large in humans, capable of handling a wide variety of tasks including visual, auditory, language, motor, and abstract processing. These functionalities are processed in different self-organized regions of the neocortical sheet, and yet the anatomic...

background: prognostic models have clinical appeal to aid therapeutic decision making. two main practical challenges in development of such models are assessment of validity of models and imputation of missing data. in this study, importance of imputation of missing data and application of bootstrap technique in development, simplification, and assessment of internal validity of a prognostic mo...

Currently, for the continuous targeting problem with underactuated quadrotor, a nonlinear optimal control method high computational efficiency is still missing. To tackle this problem, novel efficient egocentric regulation approach proposed in article. Specifically, it directly formulates an manner regarding quadrotor's body coordinates. Meanwhile, nonlinearities of system are decoupled through...

Mapping and comparing biodiversity in space is a routine task ecological research. However, accurate mapping requires exact distributional information as inputs. When geographical coordinate missing or when only coarse distribution of species available at the quadrat plot level, how can we effectively infer compare spatial patterns with reasonable accuracy while controlling confounding impacts ...

There is no shortage of articles and books exploring women’s underrepresentation in science. Everyone is interested—academics, politicians, parents, high school girls (and boys), women in search of college majors, administrators working to accommodate women’s educational interests; the list goes on. But one thing often missing is an evidence-based examination of the problem, uninfluenced by per...

Large-scale natural language generation requires the integration of vast amounts of knowledge: lexical, grammatical, and conceptual. A robust generator must be able to operate well even when pieces of knowledge are missing. It must also be robust against incomplete or inaccurate inputs. To attack these problems, we have built a hybrid generator , in which gaps in symbolic knowledge are lled by ...