Verifiable secret sharing (VSS) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive, lying at the core of secure multi-party computation (MPC) and, as the distributed analogue of a commitment functionality, used in numerous applications. In this paper we focus on unconditionally secure VSS protocols with honest majority. In this setting it is typically assumed that parties are connected pairwise by authen...

Introduction: Spectroscopic imaging based on conventional 3D PRESS localization is improved by using very selective suppression (VSS) pulses for outer volume suppression [1]. Cosine-modulated VSS pulses can be used to simultaneously suppress two parallel bands [2] but doubles the required peak RF amplitude. This abstract presents an efficient method for designing a dualband VSS pulse that requi...

UNLABELLED Diagnosis of cardiac involvement is important for the management of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). This study was undertaken to determine the significance of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients with SSc and whether diastolic function measured by gated SPECT is an early sign of cardiac complications. METHODS Thirty-four patients with SSc and 16 control patients wer...

Replacement of hydrogenwith fluorine within three pairs of structurally similar small molecule inhibitors of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) resulted in differences in inhibition constants (Ki) in vitro as well as marked differences in rat intravenous pharmacokinetic profiles. The difference in pharmacokinetic profiles between lower and higher affinity inhibitors (LAIs and HAIs, respectively) was...

This paper indicate the importance of telecommunications supervision systems (TSS), integrating heterogeneous TSS into single system thru umbrella systems, introduces the structure, features, requirements of TSS and TSS related intelligent solutions. Keywords—Telecommunication, telecommunication supervision systems, umbrella systems

The pharmacokinetics of N-nitrosodimethylamine was studied in patas monkeys following i.v. doses of 0.5, 1.0, and 5.0 mg/kg and a p.o. dose of 1.0 mg/kg, and in Swiss mice at i.v. doses of 1.0 and 2.0 mg/kg. In the patas monkey the pharmacokinetics was linear over the i.v. dose range studied. The mean clearance (Cl), steady-state volume of distribution (Vss), mean residence time, and eliminatio...

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 consider the round complexity of a basic cryptographic task: verifiable secret sharing (VSS). This well-studied primitive provides a good “test case” for our understanding of round complexity in general; moreover, VSS is important in its own right as a central building block for, e.g., Byzantine agreement and secure multi-party computation. The round complexity of perfect VSS was settled by ...