Non-committing encryption (NCE) implements secure channels under adaptive corruptions in situations when data erasures are not trustworthy. In this paper we are interested in the rate of NCE, i.e. in how many bits the sender and receiver need to send per plaintext bit. In initial constructions (e.g. Canetti, Feige, Goldreich and Naor, STOC 96) the length of both the receiver message, namely the...

While the three-part mission of land-grant university has been a pivotal component agriculture and natural resources in U.S., is not always well understood by all audiences, including faculty members who are key deliverers mission. As such, it important to understand how view brand identity. A series focus groups were conducted with tenure non-tenure track at [university]. Faculty members’ perc...

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...

The Clostridia are a diverse group of gram-positive, rod-shaped anaerobes that include several toxin-producing pathogens (notably C. difSiciZe, C. botulinum, C. tetuni, and C. perfringens) and a large number of terrestrial species that produce acetone, butanol, ethanol, isopropanol, and organic acids through fermentation of a variety of carbon ~ o u r c e s ~ ~ . Isolates of C. ucetobutylicum w...

Our objective was to implement the technology developed during the first year of this project to the fabrication of nitride-based optoelectronic sensor structures on silicon wafers. This objective has been reached through optimization of the MBE process, the Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) and device fabrication techniques. Control of the RIE process was improved using a miniature ORthogonal extract...

The researchers made significant progress in all of the proposed research areas. The first major task in the proposal involved simulation-based and sampling methods for global optimization. In support of this task, we have discovered two new innovative approaches to simulation-based global optimization; the first involves connections between stochastic approximation and our model reference appr...

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal with the potential selection problem inherent in the analysis. Our results suggest that if grants are...

Grant writing has become increasingly important for Information Systems researchers. This workshop is intended to provide insight on how the grant writing process is handled from both the academic and practitioner perspective. This workshop is intended to be applied in providing the audience with practical skills necessary for writing a variety of grants into a variety of sectors. The workshop ...

Collaboration is a prerequisite for the sustainability of interagency programs, particularly those programs initially created with the support of time-limited grant-funding sources. From the perspective of evaluators, however, assessing collaboration among grant partners is often difficult. It is also challenging to present collaboration data to stakeholders in a way that is meaningful. In this...

In summary, the research application must focus on a solid objective and be supported by a clear and concise plan for its accomplishment. For the new faculty member applying the first time for outside research funding, it is important to seek help from experienced and more senior colleagues, especially those who are actively serving on NIH Study Sections. It is a good idea to remember that the ...