Worldwide water governance failures undermine effective water management under uncertainty and change. Overcoming these failures requires employing more adaptive, resilient water management approaches; yet, while scholars have advance theory of what adaptive, resilient approaches should be, there is little empirical evidence to support those normative propositions. To fill this gap, we reviewed...

Garg, Jain, and Sahai first consider zero knowledge proofs in the presence of leakage on the local state of the prover, and present a leakageresilient-zero-knowledge proof system for HC (Hamiltonian Cycle) problem. Their construction is called (1 + ε)-leakage-resilient zero-knowledge, for any constant ε > 0, because the total length of the leakage the simulator needs is (1 + ε) times as large a...

BACKGROUND The main focus of studies of individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis (UHR) has been on identifying brain changes in those individuals who will develop psychosis. However, longitudinal studies have shown that up to half of UHR individuals are resilient, with symptomatic remission and good functioning at follow-up. Yet little is known about brain development in resilient individua...

1 In this paper we derive several important results towards a better understanding of propagation characteristics of resilient Boolean functions. We first introduce a new upper bound on nonlinearity of a given resilient function depending on the propagation criterion. We later show that a large class of resilient functions admit a linear structure; more generally, we exhibit some divisibility p...

We analyze the performance of resilient functions for imperfect input bits. Specifically, we allow more input bits than the resiliency degree of the resilient function to be biased and analyze the output behavior under this new assumption. We develop bounds on the output distribution of resilient functions build from a number of families of linear codes. We develop an explicit formula for the p...

Wr rxttnd the notions of correlation-immune functions and resilient functions to functions over any finite alphabet endowed with the structure of an Abelian group. Thus we generalize the results of Gopalakrishnan and Slinsori as wc givc an orthogonal array characterizat,ion and a Fourier transform characterization for resilient functions over any finite alphabet. This leads to a generalization ...

We report on an emerging application focused on the design of resilient long reach passive optical networks using combinatorial optimisation techniques. The objective of the application is to determine the optimal position and capacity of a set of metro nodes. We specifically consider dual parented networks whereby each customer must be associated with two metro nodes. An important property of ...

Abstract Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) are indispensable in anti-tumor immunity. Although CTLs prone to exhaustion patients with advanced cancer, cell resiliency explains the presence of tumor-reactive that less exhausted, capable cytolytic function, expansion, and rebound response immunotherapy reject metastatic malignancies. However, features resilient cells have not been clearly defined. In ...

In this paper, we propose mechanisms for an adaptive bandwidth allocation (ABA) based on border-to-border (b2b) bandwidth budgets. These budgets can be considered as virtual capacity tunnels binding a fraction of the network capacity and connecting different network border routers. Unlike MPLS label switched paths or ATM virtual path connections associated with a certain bandwidth, these tunnel...