This paper proposes a cryptographic mechanism for metering the duration and/or the number of instances of running a data process. This mechanism has the following property: knowing a secret, one can validate a piece of metering evidence in constant units of time while without the secret the job of generating a valid piece of evidence requires time indicated by a value in the evidence. Because t...

Implementing smart metering is an important field for energy policy to successfully meet energy efficiency targets. From an integrated social acceptance and customer perceved vaue theory perspective we model the importance of customer value of smart metering in this regard. ...

Prepayment or pay as you go system is receiving more and more attention worldwide as utilities are looking at ways to improve customer service, improve their cash flow and minimize their risks. The concept of prepaid remains the same but there is going to be a paradigm shift in the application. It's altogether a new arena in Metering India which is likely to be important to revenue and energy m...

A metering scheme allows a correct counting on the number of hits that a Web site received during a certain period. In this paper, we first derive tight lower bounds on the communication complexity |Vi| (i = 1, . . . , n) and the size of server’s secrets |Es| for robust and perfect (k, n)-metering schemes. We next show an almost equivalence between (k, n)-metering schemes and k-multiple-use A-c...

The PAPAyA platform has been designed to ingest, store and process in silico large genomics datasets using analysis algorithms based on pre-defined knowledge databases with the goal to offer personalized therapy guidance to physicians in particular for cancers and infectious diseases. This new highly scalable, secure and extensible framework is deployed on a cloud-based digital health platform ...

To improve the problem of low seeding efficiency facing single-row planting mode traditionally used in China, this study aimed to design a novel three-row pneumatic precision metering device. The working principle and main structure were introduced paper. three factors affecting performance comprised vacuum pressure, angular velocity tray, taper angle sucking hole. A Box-Behnken experiment havi...

This paper presents a case study of how factors such as wind prediction errors and metering delays can influence controller performance and workload in Human-In-The-Loop simulations. Retired air traffic controllers worked two arrival sectors adjacent to the Atlanta terminal area. The main tasks were to provide safe air traffic operations and deliver the aircraft to the metering fix within ±25 s...

We present an advanced, injection molded microfluidic lab-on-a-chip cartridge to process immunoassays with unit operations for sample preparation, metering, mixing, incubation, washing, chemiluminescence detection and waste handling. A newly developed readout device is capable of recording data points under rotation. Latest assay results feature a lower average standard deviation (7 % of maximu...

As the effects of climate change increasingly become a reality, policymakers have recognized the need for more renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, and the benefits of distributed generation. One important way that both renewable energy and distributed generation are being addressed is through the use of electrical net metering policies. Net metering allows property owners to generat...

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