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...

Manual Ability Classification System provides a systematic method to classify how children with cerebral palsy use their hands when handling objects in daily activities. MACS is a subjective classification system and is based upon self-initiated manual abilities, with a particular emphasis on handling objects in a individual's personal space. MACS is designed for children with cerebral palsy, a...

Background: The immunomagnetic separation technique is the basis of monocyte isolation and further generation of monocyte-derived dendritic cells. Objective: To compare the efficiency of monocyte positive and negative separation, concentration of beads, and their impact on generated dendritic cells. Methods: Monocytes were obtained using monoclonal antibody-coated magnetic beads followed the Fi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the care of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and/or HIV patients enrolled into Medication Adherence Clubs (MACs). METHODS Retrospective descriptive study was carried out using routinely collected programme data from a primary healthcare clinic at informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. All patients enrolled into MACs were selected for the study. MACs are nurse-facilitated m...

Isolation of phenotypically-pure cell subpopulations from heterogeneous cell mixtures such as blood is a difficult yet fundamentally important task. Current techniques such as fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) and magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) require pre-incubation with antibodies which lead to processing times of at least 15-60 min. In this study, we explored the use of antib...

xiv Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2.1 Communication Medium for UWSN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.2 The Vision of UWSN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2.3 Acoustic Propagation and Sensornet Protocols . . . . . ....

In this correspondence, the optimality of LAttice Space-Time (LAST) coding and decoding in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime of outage-limited multiple access channels (MACs) is established. More specifically, it is shown that mod-Λ LAST coding and minimum-mean-square-error generalized-decisionfeedback-equalizer (MMSE-GDFE) decoding achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of MAC...