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Chapter and Conference Paper
How to Garble Mixed Circuits that Combine Boolean and Arithmetic Computations
The study of garbling arithmetic circuits is initiated by Applebaum, Ishai, and Kushilevitz [FOCS’11], which can be naturally extended to mixed circuits. The basis of mixed circuits includes Boolean operations...
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Sulforaphane Functionalized Chitosan Nanoparticles Serve as an Effective Nanocomplex System for the Treatment of Human Cervical Cancer
Natural biomaterials are particularly advantageous for the transport and regulated release of medications and their significant activity, despite the fact that a variety of carriers have been employed to encap...
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CASC9 potentiates gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic cancer by reciprocally activating NRF2 and the NF-κB signaling pathway
Gemcitabine resistance is a frequently occurring and intractable obstacle in pancreatic cancer treatment. However, the underlying mechanisms require further investigation. Adaptive regulation of oxidative stre...
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Open AccessIncidence and risk factors of fasting hyperglycaemia following first-attack acute pancreatitis before discharge: a retrospective study
Pancreatic endocrine insufficiency is more likely to occur after acute pancreatitis (AP), but the risk factors affecting pancreatic endocrine function remain controversial. Therefore, exploring the incidence a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
New Ways to Garble Arithmetic Circuits
The beautiful work of Applebaum, Ishai, and Kushilevitz [FOCS’11] initiated the study of arithmetic variants of Yao’s garbled circuits. An arithmetic garbling scheme is an efficient transformation that convert...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
LERNA: Secure Single-Server Aggregation via Key-Homomorphic Masking
This paper introduces LERNA, a new framework for single-server secure aggregation. Our protocols are tailored to the setting where multiple consecutive aggregation phases are performed with the same set of cli...
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Open AccessmicroRNA-21-5p from M2 macrophage-derived extracellular vesicles promotes the differentiation and activity of pancreatic cancer stem cells by mediating KLF3
Given the fact that tumor-associated macrophage-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are attributable to tumor aggressiveness, this research intends to decode the mechanism of M2 macrophage-derived EVs in the ...
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Open AccessTargeting ferroptosis suppresses osteocyte glucolipotoxicity and alleviates diabetic osteoporosis
Diabetic osteoporosis (DOP) is the leading complication continuously threatening the bone health of patients with diabetes. A key pathogenic factor in DOP is loss of osteocyte viability. However, the mechanism...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ABE for Circuits with Constant-Size Secret Keys and Adaptive Security
An important theme in the research on attribute-based encryption (ABE) is minimizing the sizes of secret keys and ciphertexts. In this work, we present two new ABE schemes with constant-size secret keys, i.e., th...
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Open AccessInhibition of Notch activity promotes pancreatic cytokeratin 5-positive cell differentiation to beta cells and improves glucose homeostasis following acute pancreatitis
Some individuals develop prediabetes and/or diabetes following acute pancreatitis (AP). AP-induced beta-cell injury and the limited regenerative capacity of beta cells might account for pancreatic endocrine in...
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Open AccessCirculating tumour cells at baseline and late phase of treatment provide prognostic value in breast cancer
To determine the prognostic value of the timing of circulating breast tumour cell measurement during treatment, peripheral blood from 164 patients with breast disease was collected. Circulating tumour cells (C...
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Open AccessFZD2 promotes TGF-β-induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in breast cancer via activating notch signaling pathway
Breast cancer (BC) is one of the commonest female cancers, which is characterized with high incidence. Although treatments have been improved, the prognosis of BC patients in advanced stages remains unsatisfac...
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FOXP1 drives osteosarcoma development by repressing P21 and RB transcription downstream of P53
Osteosarcoma has a poor prognosis, and the poor understanding of the genetic drivers of osteosarcoma hinders further improvement in therapeutic approaches. Transcription factor forkhead box P1 (FOXP1) is a cru...
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Open AccessCircular RNA CDR1as promotes tumor progression by regulating miR-432-5p/E2F3 axis in pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer (PC), characterized with high growth rate and metastatic rate. It’s urgently necessary to explore new mechanism of PC. Circular RNA/miRNA/mRNA network was widely reported to participate in th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Instant Block Confirmation in the Sleepy Model
Blockchain protocols suffer from an interesting conundrum: owning stake in the Blockchain doesn’t necessarily mean that the party is willing to participate in day to day operations. This leads to large quantit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ATLAS: Efficient and Scalable MPC in the Honest Majority Setting
In this work, we address communication, computation, and round efficiency of unconditionally secure multi-party computation for arithmetic circuits in the honest majority setting. We achieve both algorithmic a...
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Open AccessOn the protective capacity of a safety vest for the thoracic injury caused by falling down
Aged people all over the world are prone to fall down accidentally and be injured with fracture, such as the rib fracture. To protect the elderly, the safety vest has been developed to protect them from being ...
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Chemical shift assignments of the connexin37 carboxyl terminal domain
Connexin37 (Cx37) is a gap junction protein involved in cell-to-cell communication in the vasculature and other tissues. Cx37 suppresses proliferation of vascular cells involved in tissue development and repair i...
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The concentration of selenium matters: a field study on mercury accumulation in rice by selenite treatment in qingzhen, Guizhou, China
The consumption of rice grain produced in mercury (Hg) contaminated soil was identified as a major route of dietary Hg exposure. The aims were 1) to determine the most suitable concentration of Se that can lea...
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Open AccessRetraction Note: Expression of microRNA-497 and its prognostic significance in human breast cancer
