A secret sharing scheme based on exponentiation in Galois fields

To provide more efficient and flexible alternatives for the applications of secret sharing schemes, this paper describes a threshold sharing scheme based on exponentiation of matrices in Galois fields. A significant characteristic of the proposed scheme is that each participant has to keep only one master secret share which can be used to reconstruct different group secrets according to the number of threshold values.

Knowledge and attitudes of Spanish adolescent girls towards human papillomavirus infection: where to intervene to improve vaccination coverage

Background: HPV vaccine coverage is far from ideal in Valencia, Spain, and this could be partially related to the low knowledge about the disease and the vaccine, therefore we assessed these, as well as the attitude towards vaccination in adolescent girls, and tried to identify independently associated factors that could potentially be modified by an intervention in order to increase vaccine coverage. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in a random selection of schools of the Spanish region of Valencia. We asked mothers of 1278 girls, who should have been vaccinated in the 2011 campaign, for informed consent. Those that accepted their daughters’ participation, a questionnaire regarding the Knowledge of HPV infection and vaccine was passed to the girls in the school. Results: 833 mothers (65.1%) accepted participation. All their daughters’ responded the questionnaire. Of those, 89.9% had heard about HPV and they associated it to cervical cancer. Only 14% related it to other problems like genital warts. The knowledge score of the girls who had heard about HPV was 6.1/10. Knowledge was unrelated to the number of contacts with the health system (Pediatrician or nurse), and positively correlated with the discussions with classmates about the vaccine. Adolescents Spanish in origin or with an older sister vaccinated, had higher punctuation. 67% of the girls thought that the vaccine prevented cancer, and 22.6% felt that although prevented cancer the vaccine had important safety problems. 6.4% of the girls rejected the vaccine for safety problems or for not considering themselves at risk of infection. 71.5% of the girls had received at least one vaccine dose. Vaccinated girls scored higher knowledge (p = 0.05). Conclusion: Knowledge about HPV infection and vaccine was fair in adolescents of Valencia, and is independent to the number of contacts with the health system, it is however correlated to the conversations about the vaccine with their peers and the vaccination status. An action to improve HPV knowledge through health providers might increase vaccine coverage in the adolescents.

Psychological Homelessness and Enculturative Stress among US-Deported Salvadorans: A Preliminary Study with a Novel Approach

The purpose of this study was to examine the construct psychological homelessness—feelings of not belonging in one’s home country—within the context of deported Salvadorans’ enculturation to El Salvador. Participants (n = 66) who had been deported from the United States completed a set of questionnaires related to their deportation experience. Results indicated that deportees, in various degrees, experienced the phenomenon of psychological homelessness and enculturative stress related to living in El Salvador. As hypothesized, enculturative stress related to re-adapting to life in El Salvador significantly correlated with psychological homelessness after controlling for time spent in the United States, acculturation, and enculturation. Additional analyses revealed that maladaptive cognitions related to the deportation experience also predicted psychological homelessness. Our findings suggest psychological homelessness appears to be a valid construct and is experienced by many undocumented immigrants.

Structural Characterization of Micro- and Mesoporous Carbon Materials Using In Situ High Pressure 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy

In situ high pressure 129Xe NMR spectroscopy in combination with volumetric adsorption measurements were used for the textural characterization of different carbon materials with well-defined porosity including microporous carbide-derived carbons, ordered mesoporous carbide-derived carbon, and ordered mesoporous CMK-3. Adsorption/desorption isotherms were measured also by NMR up to relative pressures close to p/p0 = 1 at 237 K. The 129Xe NMR chemical shift of xenon adsorbed in porous carbons is found to be correlated with the pore size in analogy to other materials such as zeolites. In addition, these measurements were performed loading the samples with n-nonane. Nonane molecules preferentially block the micropores. However, 129Xe NMR spectroscopy proves that the nonane also influences the mesopores, thus providing information about the pore system in hierarchically structured materials.

Multi-Element Analysis of Spanish Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Based Techniques. Discrimination Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis

The elemental analysis of Spanish palm dates by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry is reported for the first time. To complete the information about the mineral composition of the samples, C, H, and N are determined by elemental analysis. Dates from Israel, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Iran have also been analyzed. The elemental composition have been used in multivariate statistical analysis to discriminate the dates according to its geographical origin. A total of 23 elements (As, Ba, C, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, H, In, K, Li, Mg, Mn, N, Na, Ni, Pb, Se, Sr, V, and Zn) at concentrations from major to ultra-trace levels have been determined in 13 date samples (flesh and seeds). A careful inspection of the results indicate that Spanish samples show higher concentrations of Cd, Co, Cr, and Ni than the remaining ones. Multivariate statistical analysis of the obtained results, both in flesh and seed, indicate that the proposed approach can be successfully applied to discriminate the Spanish date samples from the rest of the samples tested.

al- Fayḍ al-wārid ʻalá rawḍ Marthīyat Mawlānā Khālid

taṣnīf Abū al-Thanāʼ Shihāb al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī.

Hādhā kitāb al-Qawl al-muṣān min al-buhtān fī najāt Sayyidinā Mūsá ʻalayhi al-ṣalāt wa-al-salām wa-gharaq Firʻawn wa-mā kāna ʻalayhi min al-ʻiṣyān

taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Ujhūrī al-Shāfiʻī.

Hādhā Majmūʻ muzdawijāt badīʻah mustaghribāt wa-qaṣāʼid ghazalīyāt ẓarīfah mustaḥsanāt turawwiḥu qulūb al-ʻushshāq wa-yaḥinnu ilayhā ṭaraban kull mushtāq

jamʻ Maḥmūd Afandī al-Jazāʼirī.

Risālah dar bayān-i shurūṭ-i iqtidā / min taʼlīf janāb Imām al-ʻulamā Qāḍī al-Mulk Bahādur : manuscript, 1862

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Thabat al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Mukarram Allāh al-Ṣaʻīdī : manuscript, [ca. 1850]

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Tratado de la fiebre, y sus principales diferencias, que para uso de sus discipulos escribió y dexó en borrador D. Juan García Carnero ... /

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Hādhihi Riḥlat al-faqīr ilá Allāh taʻālá Rifāʻah Badawī Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī ilá diyār Farānsā al-musammāh bi-Takhlīṣ al-ibrīz ilá talkhīṣ Bārīz, aw, al-Diwān al-nafīs bi-iwān Bārīs /

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Hādhā Kitāb al-baḥr al-mawrūd fī al-mawāthīq wa-al-ʻuhūd /

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