Consolidation is the progressive postacquisition stabilization of long-term memory. The term is commonly used to refer to two types of processes: synaptic consolidation, which is accomplished within the first minutes to hours after learning and occurs in all memory systems studied so far; and system consolidation, which takes much longer, and in which memories that are initially dependent upon ...

In the age of cloud computing, users with limited storage can outsource their data to remote servers. These servers, in lieu monetary benefits, offer retrievability clients' at any point time. Secure protocols enable a client check integrity outsourced data. this work, we explore possibility constructing secure for dynamic by leveraging algorithms involved network coding. We show that some codi...

We formalize the notion of Verifiable Oblivious Storage (VOS), where a client outsourcesthe storage of data to a server while ensuring data confidentiality, access pattern privacy, andintegrity and freshness of data accesses. VOS generalizes the notion of Oblivious RAM (ORAM)in that it allows the server to perform computation, and also explicitly considers data integrityand ...

The major disadvantage of cement-retained implant-supported fixed partial dentures (FPDs) is difficulty in retrievability. The retentive strengths of the provisional luting agents usually employed in these cases are therefore an important consideration. This study evaluated the cement failure loads of 4 provisional luting agents used for the cementation of FPDs supported by 2 implants or 4 impl...

Implicit memory for novel shapes was explored with a negative priming paradigm. The results show that representations of shapes, formed in a single trial and without attention, can last without decrement across 200 intervening trials and with temporal delays of up to a month. No explicit memory of the shapes was available, either immediately or after a delay. There were consistent individual di...

This research addressed three issues. First, we examined whether retrospective confidence judgments (RCJs) and judgments of learning (JOLs) assess memory differently. Second, we examined the relative accuracy of JOLs and RCJs at predicting future recall performance. Third, we examined whether making JOLs improves subsequent recall better than making RCJs or making no metacognitive judgment. Res...

Filecoin is a distributed electronic currency similar to Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin’s computation-only proof-of-work, Filecoin’s proof-of-work function includes a proof-of-retrievability component, which requires nodes to prove they store a particular file. The Filecoin network forms an entirely distributed file storage system, whose nodes are incentivized to store as much of the entire network’s ...

Cloud computing provides customers the illusion of infinite computing resources which are available from anywhere, anytime, on demand. Computing at such an immense scale requires a framework that can support extremely large datasets housed on clusters of commodity hardware. Two examples of such frameworks are Google’s MapReduce and Microsoft’s Dryad. First we discuss implementation details of t...

Patient registries are important for understanding the causes and origins of rare diseases and estimating their impact; and they may prove critical developing new diagnostics and therapeutics. This paper introduces the [RD] PRISM resource , an NIH-funded project to develop a library of standardized question and answer sets to support rare disease research. The paper presents...