MCNP calculations for a calculational benchmark representative of an early ITER design were carried out to investigate the impact of ENDF/B-VII.0 release on FENDL-2.1. The results presented in this work clearly show that the previously observed differences in nuclear heating and radiation damage are removed when the correctly processed ENDF/BVII.0 data are used. Differences in all nuclear param...

AIM: To determine the clinical, radiographic and laboratory characteristics, diagnostic methods, and therapeutic variables in immunocompetent patients with tuberculosis (TB) of the pancreas and peripancreatic lymph nodes. METHODS: The records of 16 patients (6 male, 10 female; mean age 37 years, range 18-56years) with tuberculosis of the pancreas and peripancreatic lymph nodes from 1983 to 2001...

We investigate the extent to which correlated secret randomness can help in secure computation with no honest majority. It is known that correlated randomness can be used to evaluate any circuit of size s with perfect security against semi-honest parties or statistical security against malicious parties, where the communication complexity grows linearly with s. This leaves open two natural ques...

A binary symmetric channel (BSC) is a noisy communication channel that flips each bit independently with some fixed error probability 0 < p < 1/2. Crépeau and Kilian (FOCS 1988) showed that oblivious transfer, and hence general secure two-party computation, can be unconditionally realized by communicating over a BSC. There has been a long line of works on improving the efficiency and generality...

Nowadays, the concept of education for all is gaining momentum thanks to widespread use e-learning systems around world. The consists in providing learning content via Internet physically dispersed learners. main challenge this regard high fail rate particularly among k-12 learners who are our case study. Therefore, we established an in-depth methodology based on machine models whose objectives...