Blockchain-based high transparent PKI authentication protocol by Liquan CHEN, Xiao LI, Zheyi YANG, Sijie QIAN

“…The public key infrastructure (PKI), as an significant component of the current Internet security infrastructure, guarantees the information transmission with the necessary authenticity, integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation.However, the existing PKI also has shortcomings of excessive power of certification authority and difficulties in revoking and querying.Blockchain can be used to solve those problems by leveraging its advantages, such as decentralization, high transparency and flat structure.Furthermore, the ability and efficiency of the entire Internet to establish trust relationships may be improved.The transparent public key infrastructure (PKI) certification protocol based on the blockchain was proposed.The TS-PBFT algorithm was designed in the proposed protocol by adopting the threshold signature technology to the Practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) algorithm.The TS-PBFT algorithm reduced the communication overhead via reducing the communication complexity, strengthened the supervision via introducing external monitoring mechanism in the master node election of the view change protocol, and also improved the performance of the consensus mechanism via adding a batch processing mechanism.Moreover, a transparent blockchain-based PKI certification protocol was designed.The proposed protocol increased the security of certificate revocation and query, it also improved the efficiency of the certificate query by the introduction of counting bloom filters.Besides, the proposed protocol added audit function into the certificate lifecycle management.Accordingly, it can supervise the behavior of the certificate authority (CA), prompt it to improve security standards, and then achieve the purpose of limiting its authority.According to the security analysis and efficiency experiments, the proposed protocol was equipped with security properties, such as the resistance to spoofing certificate application attacks, and it achieved the best performance on TLS/SSL handshake time compared with existing PKI protocols.…”
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Disparity Map Generation from Illumination Variant Stereo Images Using Efficient Hierarchical Dynamic Programming by Viral H. Borisagar, Mukesh A. Zaveri

“…The hierarchical approach adopted decreases the computation time of the stereo matching problem. This algorithm can be helpful in applications like robot navigation, extraction of information from aerial surveys, 3D scene reconstruction, and military and security applications. …”
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Entre utilitarisme et pessimisme : pour une recherche utile, utilisable et utilisée by Jean-Philippe Tonneau, Edonilce da Rocha Barros

“…They insist and detail on the main roles of this research : social experimentation and information management to work out at the same time a society project and to develop the answers that this project requires.…”
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Spread and Control of Mobile Benign Worm Based on Two-Stage Repairing Mechanism by Meng Wang, Zhide Chen, Li Xu, Huan Zhan

“…Both in traditional social network and in mobile network environment, the worm is a serious threat, and this threat is growing all the time. Mobile smartphones generally promote the development of mobile network. …”
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Spatial Distribution and Temporal Variability of Ammonium-Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium in a Rice Field in Corrientes, Argentina by Luis Alberto Morales, Eva Vidal Vázquez, Jorge Paz-Ferreiro

“…Soil NH4+-N increased along time, whereas P was highest at bunch formation and K steadily decreased along the rice growth period. …”
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Suvorexant, a Novel Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonist, for the Management of Insomnia by Andrew H. Han, Caroline R. Burroughs, Evan P. Falgoust, Jamal Hasoon, Grace Hunt, Juyeon Kakazu, Tim Lee, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye, Latha Ganti

“…Quantity and quality of sleep are measured in various ways, yet the consensus points towards Suvorexant's effectiveness in improving sleep time, onset, latency, and quality compared to placebo. …”
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Long-Term Spatiotemporal Reconfiguration of Neuronal Activity Revealed by Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging in the Cerebellar Granular Layer by Daniela Gandolfi, Jonathan Mapelli, Egidio D’Angelo

“…The correspondence with cellular changes occurring during LTP and LTD was highlighted by a vector representation obtained by combining amplitude with time-to-peak of VSD signals. This showed that LTP occurred in the most excited regions lying in the core of activated areas and increased the number of EPSP-spike complexes, while LTD occurred in the less excited regions lying in the surround. …”
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Valorization of Biomass Through Anaerobic Digestion and Hydrothermal Carbonization: Integrated Process Flowsheet and Supply Chain Network Optimization by Sanja Potrč, Aleksandra Petrovič, Jafaru M. Egieya, Lidija Čuček

“…Utilization of biomass through anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal carbonization is crucial to maximize resource efficiency. At the same time, supply chain integration ensures sustainable feedstock management and minimizes environmental and logistical impacts, enabling a holistic approach to a circular bioeconomy. …”
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Evolving Bioprosthetic Tissue Calcification Can Be Quantified Using Serial Multislice CT Scanning by B. Meuris, H. De Praetere, W. Coudyzer, W. Flameng

“…Multislice CT scanning was performed at various time intervals. Results. In stentless conduits, the distribution of wall calcification can be reliably quantified with CT. …”
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Study on an Improved Algorithm for Helical Gear Meshing Stiffness and Its Influencing Factors by Liu Ziqian, Sun Yu, Zhou Chaodong, Jiang Yanjun, Feng Nan, Zhao Linyan

“…Thus the transverse stiffness of gears is improved. At the same time, the transverse contact ratio will firstly increase and then decrease. …”
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Application of Extrapolation Capability of Vector Fitting for Out-of-Band Dominant Modal Synthesis of Voltage-Source Converters by Weihua Zhou, Jef Beerten

“…This article presents, for the first time, the potential identification of several critical out-of-band modes of an artificially created rational function and a grid-connected VSC. …”
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CD137 Regulates NFATc1 Expression in Mouse VSMCs through TRAF6/NF-κB p65 Signaling Pathway by Jinchuan Yan, Yunjie Yin, Wei Zhong, Cuiping Wang, Zhongqun Wang

“…Data shows that the CD137 expression can be stimulated by TNF-α in a time-dependent manner in mouse VSMCs. Knockdown of TRAF6 by siTRAF6 significantly attenuated agonist-CD137mAb induced increase of NF-κB p65 and NFATc1 in VSMCs. …”
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Influence of the “five‑in‑one” mode on complications and compliance behaviors of patients with ureteral calculi after minimally invasive surgery by Xixian Ou, Xuejing Wang

“…The experimental group had also decreased Visual Analog Scale scores in all time periods (1, 3, and 7 d) after treatment (P <⁠0.05), and significantly elevated total nursing satisfaction rate, as compared with that of the control group (97.82% vs 82.6%; P <⁠0.05). …”
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Adsorptive Applications of Montmorillonite Clay for the Removal of Ag(I) and Cu(II) from Aqueous Medium by Naser M. Alandis, Waffa Mekhamer, Omar Aldayel, Jameel A. A. Hefne, Manawwer Alam

“…The effect of pH, adsorbent mass, metal concentration, and contact time on the removal process has been investigated. …”
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Influence of Storage Conditions on the Stability of Vitamin D3 and Kinetic Study of the Vitamin Degradation in Fortified Canola Oil during the Storage by Mina Zareie, Azam Abbasi, Shiva Faghih

“…In this study, the influence of storage conditions including light, air, storage temperature, and time on vitamin D3 retention in fortified canola oil was evaluated. …”
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Pengaruh Pemeriksaan Pajak Dengan Model Compliance Risk Management (CRM), Kepatuhan Wajib Pajak Badan, Dan Penagihan Pajak Terhadap Penerimaan Pajak Pada KPP Pratama Cianjur by Bhayu Chairul Annam, Ridwan Miftahul Khoer, Syafrizal Ikram

“…Jenis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data sekunder dengan jenis data time series periode 2019-2021. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menguji model regresi dengan uji asumsi klasik dilanjutkan dengan pengujian hipotesis. …”
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Development of an adaptive neuro‐fuzzy inference system–based equivalent consumption minimisation strategy to improve fuel economy in hybrid electric vehicles by Krishna Veer Singh, Hari Om Bansal, Dheerendra Singh

“…The proposed non‐linear controller has also been tested for real‐time behaviour using a field‐programmable gate array–based MicroLabBox hardware controller to compare its performance against existing controllers. …”
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Motor Dysfunction Correlates with Frontal White Matter Ischemic Changes in Patients with Leukoaraiosis by Miguel Viana-Baptista, Paulo Bugalho, Constança Jordão, Olga Ribeiro, José António Esperança-Pina, José Ferro

“…Motor performance was studied using the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), single leg stand time, finger tapping and grooved pegboard tests (GPT). …”
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Risk Factors for Hypertension in Women of Childbearing Age by Natasya Vidia, Betty Yosephin Simanjuntak, Diah Eka Nugraheni

“…The type of hormonal contraception used, age, and blood pressure were obtained by secondary means from the midwife's register book. At the same time, primary door-to-door accepted length of use, education, employment, and number of children. …”
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Calculation of the Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction by Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods by M. Carta, S. Dulla, V. Peluso, P. Ravetto, G. Bianchini

“…., reactivity, effective delayed neutron fraction βeff, and mean prompt neutron generation time). In particular, some kinetic parameters, as the effective delayed neutron fraction, are evaluated in Monte Carlo codes by formulations which do not require the calculation of the adjoint flux. …”
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