The endemic Mona Island Iguana, Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri, is considered endangered, and exhibits relatively low population numbers and reduced recruitment of juveniles to adults. A headstarting program was initiated in 1999 to increase the effective population number. Two groups of headstarted iguanas were released in April and August 2002, after reaching a target size. Most of the released i...

We propose a novel approach for coping with alternating quantification as the main source of nonelementary complexity of deciding WS1S formulae. Our approach is applicable within the state-of-the-art automata-based WS1S decision procedure implemented, e.g., in MONA. The way in which the standard decision procedure processes quantifiers involves determinization, with its worst case exponential c...

In this paper, we present a secure multi owner data sharing scheme for dynamic groups in the cloud computing. By leveraging on group signature and dynamic broadcast encryption techniques, any cloud user can anonymously share data with others. In this propose a new model for Sharing Secure Data in the Cloud computing for the Multiuser Groups. In this one of the biggest concern with cloud data st...

The modified nodal analysis (MNA) is probably the most widely used formulation for modeling and simulation of electric circuits. Its conventional form uses node potentials currents across inductors voltage sources as unknowns, thus taking an viewpoint. In this paper, we propose alternative magnetic oriented analysis(MONA) circuits, which based on charges capacitors primary degrees freedom, givi...

An important function of many organisms is the ability to use contextual information in order to increase the probability of achieving goals. For example, a street address has a particular meaning only in the context of the city it is in. In this paper, predisposing conditions that influence future outcomes are learned by a goal-seeking neural network called Mona. A maze problem is used as a co...

Multicentric osteolysis, nodulosis and arthropathy (MONA) spectrum disorder is a rare inherited progressive skeletal disorder caused by mutations in the matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) gene. Treatment options are limited. Herein we present successful bisphosphonate therapy in three affected patients. Patients were treated with bisphosphonates (either pamidronate or zoledronate) for different ...

1 Supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil, process #2012/14840-8 and Pró-Reitoria de Graduação da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. 2 PhD, Professor, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. 3 Master’s student, Escola de Enfermagem de ...

Cloud computing provides an economical and efficient solution for sharing group resource among the cloud users. Sharing data in a multi-owner manner while preserving data and identity privacy from an un-trusted cloud is still a challenging issue, due to the frequent change of the members. Mona is a secure Multi-Owner data sharing scheme which leverages the group signature and dynamic broadcast ...

This paper describes the exported procedure call, a mechanism that pushes computation out of the operating system kernel and into user space. It supports a simple, secure model for system extensions. An exported procedure call incurs overhead crossing the kernel-user boundary, but once in user space, it has greater security and usability and is signi cantly simpler. This paper demonstrates the ...