Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) is an anonymous signature scheme designed for anonymous attestation of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) while preserving the privacy of the device owner. Since TPM has limited bandwidth and computational capability, one interesting feature of DAA is to split the signer role between two entities: a TPM and a host platform where the TPM is attached. Recently, Che...

Tree pattern matching (tpm) algorithms play an important role in practical applications such as compilers and XML document validation. Many tpm algorithms based on tree automata have appeared in the literature. For reasons of efficiency, these automata are preferably deterministic. Deterministic root-to-frontier tree automata (drftas) are less powerful than nondeterministic ones, and no root-to...

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been recognized as one of the significant operation strategy to regain the production losses due to equipment inefficiency. Many organizations have implemented TPM to improve their equipment efficiency and to obtain the competitive advantage in the global market in terms of cost and quality. In the implementation of TPM in a manufacturing organization, bot...

Abstra t. Tree pattern mat hing (tpm) algorithms play an important role in pra ti al appli ations su h as ompilers and XML do ument validation. Many tpm algorithms based on tree automata have appeared in the literature. For reasons of eÆ ien y, these automata are preferably deterministi . Deterministi root-to-frontier tree automata (drftas) are less powerful than nondeterministi ones, and no ro...

Key Management with Trusted Platform Modules The concept of Trusted Computing, which aims at making computing platforms more reliable, is based on a chip called Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The TPM is a chip which provides cryptographic functionality like RSA encryption and secure key storage. The aim of the Master’s project was to analyse and implement TPM based pre-boot authentication for t...

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of central nervous system (CNS) and is the most common cause of neurologic disability in young adults (20-40 years old). About 2.5 million patients all over the world are suffering from MS. Common symptoms of the disease include sensory disorders, optic neuritis, and limb weakness. Following disease progression, other symptoms...

As the hardware root-of-trust in a trusted computing environment, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) warrants formal specification and verification. This work presents results of an effort to specify and verify an abstract TPM 1.2 model using PVS that is useful for understanding the TPM and verifying protocols that utilize it. TPM commands are specified as state transformations and sequenced to ...

The article presents the application of total productive maintenance (TPM) to analyze the working time indicators of casting machines with particular emphasis on failures and unplanned downtime to reduce the proportion of emergency operation for preventive maintenance and diagnostics. The article presents that the influence of individual factors of complex machinery maintenance (TPM) is ...

OBJECTIVE For extended-release drugs with multi-compartment kinetics, such as topiramate, effective half-life (t1/2eff) may be a more clinically relevant parameter than elimination half-life (t1/2z). Using topiramate as a real-life example, the objective was to compare these half-life values for immediate- and extended-release topiramate (TPM-IR and USL255, respectively) to understand how drug ...

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized controlled trial (Standard and New Antiepileptic Drugs [SANAD] trial, Arm A) Allocation: Concealed.* Blinding: Unblinded.* Follow-up period: Up to 6 years. Setting: Hospital-based outpatient clinics in the United Kingdom. Patients: 1721 patients (mean age 38 y, 55% men) who had ≥ 2 clinically definite, unprovoked epileptic seizures in the past year and were reco...