A Boolean function on n variables is q-resilient if for any subset of at most q variables, the function is very likely to be determined by a uniformly random assignment to the remaining n − q variables; in other words, no coalition of at most q variables has significant influence on the function. Resilient functions have been extensively studied with a variety of applications in cryptography, d...

A major challenge in designing resilient infrastructure is to meet the needs of sustainable development (Kennedy & Corfee-Morlot, 2013). Sustainable development requires a high degree of energy efficiency. Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), in particular, have the potential to be much more sustainable. In the U.S., 3 – 4% of the total energy consumed is dedicated to WWTPs and drinki...

PROBLEM STATEMENT When designing and evaluating asphalt pavements, engineers must have an understanding of how the pavement materials will react to the stresses and strains of vehicle loads at varying temperatures. When a load is applied to asphalt concrete at a certain temperature, to what degree will the pavement "bounce back" to its original height? Pavement designers predict this spring-lik...

Leakage resilient cryptography attempts to incorporate sidechannel leakage into the black-box security model and designs cryptographic schemes that are provably secure within it. Informally, a scheme is leakage-resilient if it remains secure even if an adversary learns a bounded amount of arbitrary information about the schemes internal state. Unfortunately, most leakage resilient schemes are u...

PURPOSE Finite element study on the effect of abutment length and material on implant bone interface against dynamic loading. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two dimensional finite element models of cylinderical implant, abutments and bone made by titanium or polyoxymethylene were simulated with the aid of Marc/Mentat software. Each model represented bone, implant and titanium or polyoxymethylene abutm...

PURPOSE This paper examines individual, family, and neighborhood level predictors of resilience in adolescence and young adulthood and describes changes in resilience over time from adolescence to young adulthood in abused and neglected children grown up. METHOD We use documented cases of childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect (n=676) from a Midwestern county area during the years 19...

In Resilient IoT, the revenue of service provider is resilient to uncertain usage-contexts(e.g. emotion, environmental contexts) of Smart-device users. Hence, Autonomic Resilient IoT Management problem is decomposed into two subproblems, namely m-connectivity and k-dominance, such that m-alternations on revenue making process is resilient to users common interests, which might be depicted throu...

In this paper we propose the concept of an end-to-end (e2e) SelfProtecting Multi-Path (SPM) as a protection switching mechanism that may be implemented, e.g., in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. In case of local outages, resilient networks redirect the traffic from a failed link over an e2e backup path to its destination. In this case, Quality of Service (QoS) can only be provided...