Correspondence The editors, Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, The Schild Plot, 16 Angel Gate, City Road, London, EC1V 2PT | UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7239 0171; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7417 0114; E-mail: [email protected] The biomedical sciences sector in its wider manifestation is discussing how to address shortcomings in statistical analysis and design in research. Some pharmacology journals wil...

The growth of high-quality indium (In)-rich In(X)Ga(1-X)N alloys is technologically important for applications to attain highly efficient green light-emitting diodes and solar cells. However, phase separation and composition modulation in In-rich In(X )Ga(1-X)N alloys are inevitable phenomena that degrade the crystal quality of In-rich In(X)Ga(1-X)N layers. Composition modulations were observed...

We present a Serre-type conjecture on the modularity of four-dimensional symplectic mod p Galois representations. We assume that the Galois representation is irreducible and odd (in the symplectic sense). The modularity condition is formulated using the étale and the algebraic de Rham cohomology of Siegel modular varieties of level prime to p. We concentrate on the case when the Galois represen...

Given an arbitrary k-bit to k-bit trapdoor permutation f and a hash function, we exhibit an encryption scheme for which (i) any string x of length slightly less than k bits can be encrypted as f(rx), where rx is a simple probabilistic encoding of x depending on the hash function; and (ii) the scheme can be proven semantically secure assuming the hash function is \ideal." Moreover, a slightly en...

VarietyCash is a new electronic money system which strikes a balance between functionality, security, and user privacy. The system can encompass both network and stored-value card based payment mechanisms, with transferability between them, hence the name. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Mail Code 0114, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, ...