It has been reported that values of tissue–plasma ratios (Kp) and resulting volume of distribution at steady state (Vss) are substantially overpredicted for several highly lipophilic drugs. This effect was observed particularly with the published version of the tissuecomposition-based model, which used experimentally determined unbound fraction in plasma (fup) as input for drugs. The reasons fo...

INTRODUCTION Empirical examinations of the efficacy of community-based programs to increase and sustain physical activity among youth are lacking. This study describes changes in vigorous physical activity during a 3-year period among children aged 9 to 13 years (tweens) in Lexington, Kentucky, following introduction of the VERB Summer Scorecard (VSS) intervention. METHODS A community coaliti...

We revisit the following question: what is the optimal round complexity of verifiable secret sharing (VSS)? We focus here on the case of perfect VSS where the number of corrupted parties t satisfies t < n/3, with n the total number of parties. Work of Gennaro et al. (STOC 2001) and Fitzi et al. (TCC 2006) shows that, assuming a broadcast channel, 3 rounds are necessary and sufficient for effici...

Two variable step size (VSS) techniques are proposed for adaptive decorrelation filtering (ADF) to improve the performance of competing speech separation. The first VSS method applies gradient adaptive step-size (GAS) to increase ADF convergence rate. Under some simplifying assumptions, the GAS technique is generalized to allow the combination with additional VSS techniques for ADF algorithm. T...

Verifiable secret sharing schemes (VSS) are secret sharing schemes (SSS) dealing with possible cheating by participants. In this paper we use the VSS proposed by Cramer, Damgard and Maurer [6, 7, 5]. They introduced a purely linear algebraic method to transform monotone span program (MSP) based secret sharing schemes into VSS. In fact, the monotone span program model of Karchmer and Wigderson [...

This dissertation deals with three most important as well as fundamental problems in secure distributed computing, namely Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS), Byzantine Agreement (BA) and Multiparty Computation (MPC). VSS is a two phase protocol (Sharing and Reconstruction) carried out among n parties in the presence of a centralized adversary who can corrupt up to t parties. Informally, the goal o...

The normalized least-mean-square (NLMS) algorithm is one of the most common choices for echo cancellation. Nevertheless, an NLMS algorithm has to compromise between several performances criteria (e.g., convergence rate versus misadjustment, tracking capabilities versus robustness). Thus, a variable step-size NLMS (VSS-NLMS) algorithm represents a more reliable solution. Recently, several VSS-NL...

A novel verifiable secret sharing method for Verifiable secret sharing (VSS) in halftone image based on linear block code with a parity check matrix is proposed. The proposed method, which not only verifies a secret image but also introduces multiple shadows for multiple users. The proposed method adopts forward error correction code (FEC) strategy based on property of linear block codes. There...

Influences of following anaerobic digestion (AD) parameters like microaeration, pH, and VSS (Volatile Suspended Solid) using sour cabbage as substrate was checked in the publication. Results fermentation under condition small oxygen addition presented this research can be classified dark (DF—a special case AD) or hydrogenotrophic digestion. The investigations were carried out for two concentrat...

BACKGROUND Identification and quantification of segmental left ventricular wall motion abnormalities on echocardiograms is of paramount clinical importance but is still performed by a subjective visual method. We constructed an automatic tool for assessment of wall motion based on longitudinal strain. METHODS AND RESULTS Echocardiograms of 105 patients (3 apical views) were blindly analyzed b...