Though the areas of secure multicast group architecture, key distribution and sender authentication are under scrutiny, one topic that has not been explored is how to integrate these with multi-level security. Multi-level security is the ability to distinguish subjects according to classification levels, which determines to what degree they can access confidential objects. In the case of groups...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which bodily pain mediates the effect of obesity on disability and physical function. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Population-based sample of residents in the greater Boston area. PARTICIPANTS Community-dwelling adults aged 70 and older (N=736). MEASUREMENTS Body mass index (BMI), obtained from measured height and weight, was categorized...

OBJECTIVE In the light of the Workers' Food Program (WFP) growth and its recent review of nutritional parameters regulations, the study aimed at evaluating food intake in WFP through dietary assessment of lunch served in the program and workers' nutritional status. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in a representative sample of workers in Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil. A to...

Suncus murinus/Dose-survival time response/Weight loss The overall survival time response of Suncus murinus, one of the insectivora, under whole body x-irradiation in the dose range of 500 to 50,000 rad was investigated. Three segments of bone marrow, gastrointestinal (GI), and central nervous system (CNS) deaths in the dose survival time response curve were similar to those of other species su...

1 1 Dynamic afferent synapses to decision-making networks improve performance in 2 tasks requiring stimulus associations and discriminations. 3 4 Mark A. Bourjaily and Paul Miller* 5 *Corresponding author Paul Miller 6 7 Author Contributions: MAB and PM conceived, designed and performed the 8 experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. 9 10 Department of Biology, Neuroscience Program, ...