In this paper a feature extractor based on Gabor frames and Mallat’s scattering transform, called Gabor scattering, is introduced. This feature extractor is applied to a simple signal model for audio signals, i.e. a class of tones consisting of fundamental frequency and its multiples and an according envelope. Within different layers, different invariances to certain signal features occur. In t...

In previous lectures we defined a randomness extractor as follow, Definition 1 Function Ext : {0, 1}n × {0, 1}d → {0, 1}m is (k, ε)extractor if for any distribution W ∈ {0, 1}n, with H∞(W ) ≥ k SD(Ext(W ; I), Um) ≤ ε. ♦ If (I,Ext(W ; I) ≈ε (I, Um) we say Ext is a strong extractor. We saw that if H = {hi : {0, 1}n → {0, 1}m|∀i ∈ {0, 1}d} is a universal hash family and m ≤ k − 2 log(1/ε) then Ext...

There is a widespread interest in developing methods to recover homogeneous catalysts, particularly chiral catalysts, from a reaction mixture. The impetus to recover and reuse homogeneous catalysts stems not only from an economic standpoint but also from the need to eliminate contamination of the transition metal catalyst in the product and in the waste streams. The challenge is to recover the ...

Background and Purpose: Malaria is potentially a severe disease caused by infection of red blood cells with protozoan parasites the genus Plasmodium. an important cause death, illness in children pregnant women, especially Africa The present study aimed to develop alternative treatment that at may be effective safe against falciparum & vivax malaria easily available locally culturally accep...

Motivated by the problem of how to communicate over a public channel with an active adversary, Dodis and Wichs (STOC’09) introduced the notion of a non-malleable extractor. A non-malleable extractor nmExt : {0, 1} × {0, 1} → {0, 1} takes two inputs, a weaklyrandom W and a uniformly random seed S, and outputs a string which is nearly uniform, given S as well as nmExt(W,A(S)), for an arbitrary fu...

A simple and low-cost apparatus for continuous and efficient liquid-liquid extraction, which does not need continual mechanical forces (stirring, shaking, etc.) other than solution sending, has newly been developed. This apparatus, named "emulsion flow" extractor, is composed of a column part where an emulsified state fluid flow (emulsion flow) is generated by spraying micrometer-sized droplets...

Given two independent weak random sources X,Y , with the same length l and min-entropies bX , bY whose sum is greater than l + Ω(polylog(l/ε)), we construct a deterministic two-source extractor (aka “blender”) that extracts max(bX , bY ) + (bX + bY − l − 4 log(1/ε)) bits which are ε-close to uniform. In contrast, best previously published construction [4] extracted at most 1 2 (bX + bY − l− 2 l...

We present positive and negative results of fuzzy extractors with computational security. As a negative result, we show that, under a certain computational condition, the existence of a computational fuzzy extractor implies the existence of an information-theoretic fuzzy extractor with slightly weaker parameters. The condition is that the generation procedure of the fuzzy extractor is efficient...

The increasing complexity of Micro Total Analysis Systems (μTAS) is leading to a growing need for layout verification. Currently, verification involves numerical simulation, which is slow, memory consuming and impractical for large designs. An alternative is to couple layout extraction with emerging schematic-based simulation for verification of complex designs. This paper reports on a prototyp...