The progressive maturation and functional plasticity of the nervous system in health and disease involve a dynamic interplay between the transcriptome and the environment. There is a growing awareness that the previously unexplored molecular and functional interface mediating these complex gene-environmental interactions, particularly in brain, may encompass a sophisticated RNA regulatory netwo...

We present a unified framework for obtaining general secure computation that achieves adaptiveUniversally Composable (UC)-security. Our framework captures essentially all previous results on adaptive concurrent secure computation, both in relaxed models (e.g., quasi-polynomial time simulation), as well as trusted setup models (e.g., the CRS model, the imperfect CRS model). This provides concept...

We prove a continuity inheritance property for super- and sub-additive transformations of non-negative continuous multivariate functions defined on the domain of all non-negative points and vanishing at the origin. As a corollary of this result we obtain that super- and sub-additive transformations of continuous aggregation functions are again continuous aggregation functions.

The article examines how dwellers in Kenya’s informal settlements engage continuous tinkering of a particular grassroots infrastructure: local currencies. argues that the malleability these infrastructures enables networks to actively and creatively reclaiming reorganizing money, critical infrastructure. argument is built three steps. First, it presents notion money as an infrastructure currenc...

Malleability, the ability to adapt materials specific shapes, is necessary in applications where a form closure requested. The material should be easily deformable between desired stable shapes. Such stability can obtained through bistable elements that act as memory metamaterials. In this paper, with behavior programmed by local temperature presented. switched permanent shape change and comple...

Knots in long DNA molecules are prevalent biological systems and serve as a model system for investigating static dynamic properties of biopolymers. We explore the dynamics knots double-stranded new regime nanometer-scale confinement, large forces, short time scales, using solid-state nanopores. show that undergo isomorphic translocation through nanopore, retaining their equilibrium morphology ...

The Dolev–Yao model is a useful and well-known framework in which to analyze security protocols. However, it models the messages of the protocol at a very high level and makes extremely strong assumptions about the power of the adversary. The computational model of cryptography, on the other hand, takes a much lower-level view of messages and uses much weaker assumptions. Despite the large diff...