scholarly journals Data Capsule: A New Paradigm for Automatic Compliance with Data Privacy Regulations

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lun Wang ◽  
Joseph P. Near ◽  
Neel Somani ◽  
Peng Gao ◽  
Andrew Low ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
New Paradigm

scholarly journals Improved Construction for Inner Product Functional Encryption

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingsong Zhao ◽  
Qingkai Zeng ◽  
Ximeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Bilinear Pairing ◽  
Inner Product ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Functional Encryption ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Standard Notion

Functional encryption (FE) is a vast new paradigm for encryption scheme which allows tremendous flexibility in accessing encrypted data. In a FE scheme, a user can learn specific function of encrypted messages by restricted functional key and reveals nothing else about the messages. Besides the standard notion of data privacy in FE, it should protect the privacy of the function itself which is also crucial for practical applications. In this paper, we construct a secret key FE scheme for the inner product functionality using asymmetric bilinear pairing groups of prime order. Compared with the existing similar schemes, our construction reduces both necessary storage and computational complexity by a factor of 2 or more. It achieves simulation-based security, security strength which is higher than that of indistinguishability-based security, against adversaries who get hold of an unbounded number of ciphertext queries and adaptive secret key queries under the External Decisional Linear (XDLIN) assumption in the standard model. In addition, we implement the secret key inner product scheme and compare the performance with the similar schemes.

scholarly journals Building a Secure Biomedical Data Sharing Decentralized App (DApp): Tutorial

10.2196/13601 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. e13601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Johnson ◽  
Michael Jones ◽  
Mark Shervey ◽  
Joel T Dudley ◽  
Noah Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Computing System ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Server Architecture

Decentralized apps (DApps) are computer programs that run on a distributed computing system, such as a blockchain network. Unlike the client-server architecture that powers most internet apps, DApps that are integrated with a blockchain network can execute app logic that is guaranteed to be transparent, verifiable, and immutable. This new paradigm has a number of unique properties that are attractive to the biomedical and health care communities. However, instructional resources are scarcely available for biomedical software developers to begin building DApps on a blockchain. Such apps require new ways of thinking about how to build, maintain, and deploy software. This tutorial serves as a complete working prototype of a DApp, motivated by a real use case in biomedical research requiring data privacy. We describe the architecture of a DApp, the implementation details of a smart contract, a sample iPhone operating system (iOS) DApp that interacts with the smart contract, and the development tools and libraries necessary to get started. The code necessary to recreate the app is publicly available.

The applicability of blockchain technology in healthcare contexts to contain COVID-19 challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Raihanul Hasan ◽  
Shiming Deng ◽  
Neegar Sultana ◽  
Muhammed Zakir Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Real Life ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Era ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
Control And Prevention

PurposeBlockchain technology, a key feature of the fourth industrial revolution, is receiving widespread attention and exploration around the world. Taking the coronavirus pandemic as an example, the purpose of this study to examine the application of blockchain technology from the perspective of epidemic prevention and control.Design/methodology/approachExploring multiple case studies in the Chinese context at various stages of deployment, this study documents a framework about how some of the major challenges associated with COVID-19 can be alleviated by leveraging blockchain technology.FindingsThe case studies and framework presented herein show that utilization of blockchain acts as an enabler to facilitate the containment of several COVID-19 challenges. These challenges include the following: complications associated with medical data sharing; breaches of patients' data privacy; absence of real-time monitoring tools; counterfeit medical products and non-credible suppliers; fallacious insurance claims; overly long insurance claim processes; misappropriations of funds; and misinformation, rumors and fake news.Originality/valueBlockchain is ushering in a new era of innovation that will lay the foundation for a new paradigm in health care. As there are currently insufficient studies pertaining to real-life case studies of blockchain and COVID-19 interaction, this study adds to the literature on the role of blockchain technology in epidemic control and prevention.

scholarly journals Building a Secure Biomedical Data Sharing Decentralized App (DApp): Tutorial (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Johnson ◽  
Michael Jones ◽  
Mark Shervey ◽  
Joel T Dudley ◽  
Noah Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Computing System ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Application Logic ◽  
Server Architecture

UNSTRUCTURED Decentralized applications (DApps) are computer programs that run on a distributed computing system, such as a blockchain network. Unlike the client-server architecture that powers most internet applications, DApps that are integrated with a blockchain network can execute application logic that is guaranteed to be transparent, verifiable, and immutable. This new paradigm has a number of unique properties that are attractive to the biomedical and health care communities. However, instructional resources are scarcely available for biomedical software developers to begin building DApps on a blockchain. Such applications require new ways of thinking about how to build, maintain, and deploy software. This tutorial serves as a complete working prototype of a DApp, motivated by a real use case in biomedical research requiring data privacy. We describe the architecture of a DApp, the implementation details of a smart contract, a sample iPhone operating system (iOS) DApp that interacts with the smart contract, and the development tools and libraries necessary to get started. The code necessary to recreate the application is publicly available.

Solar Filaments as Tracers of Subsurface Processes

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
D. M. Rust
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Magnetic Flux ◽  
Coronal Mass Ejections ◽  
Interplanetary Space ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Coronal Plasma ◽  
Magnetic Helicity ◽  
The Sun ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Solar Filaments

AbstractSolar filaments are discussed in terms of two contrasting paradigms. The standard paradigm is that filaments are formed by condensation of coronal plasma into magnetic fields that are twisted or dimpled as a consequence of motions of the fields’ sources in the photosphere. According to a new paradigm, filaments form in rising, twisted flux ropes and are a necessary intermediate stage in the transfer to interplanetary space of dynamo-generated magnetic flux. It is argued that the accumulation of magnetic helicity in filaments and their coronal surroundings leads to filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections. These ejections relieve the Sun of the flux generated by the dynamo and make way for the flux of the next cycle.

Does the Motor System Facilitate Spatial Imagery?

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Krüger ◽  
Horst Krist
Keyword(s):  
Motor System ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
External Support ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Perceptual Condition ◽  
Imagery Condition ◽  
Passive Rotation ◽  
Perception Condition ◽  
Motor Condition ◽  
Dynamic Imagery

Abstract. Recent studies have ascertained a link between the motor system and imagery in children. A motor effect on imagery is demonstrated by the influence of stimuli-related movement constraints (i. e., constraints defined by the musculoskeletal system) on mental rotation, or by interference effects due to participants’ own body movements or body postures. This link is usually seen as qualitatively different or stronger in children as opposed to adults. In the present research, we put this interpretation to further scrutiny using a new paradigm: In a motor condition we asked our participants (kindergartners and third-graders) to manually rotate a circular board with a covered picture on it. This condition was compared with a perceptual condition where the board was rotated by an experimenter. Additionally, in a pure imagery condition, children were instructed to merely imagine the rotation of the board. The children’s task was to mark the presumed end position of a salient detail of the respective picture. The children’s performance was clearly the worst in the pure imagery condition. However, contrary to what embodiment theories would suggest, there was no difference in participants’ performance between the active rotation (i. e., motor) and the passive rotation (i. e., perception) condition. Control experiments revealed that this was also the case when, in the perception condition, gaze shifting was controlled for and when the board was rotated mechanically rather than by the experimenter. Our findings indicate that young children depend heavily on external support when imagining physical events. Furthermore, they indicate that motor-assisted imagery is not generally superior to perceptually driven dynamic imagery.

Self-Prioritization Beyond Perception

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 415-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Schäfer ◽  
Dirk Wentura ◽  
Christian Frings
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Stimulus Category ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Stimulus Features ◽  
Relevant Word ◽  
Word Shape

Abstract. Recently, Sui, He, and Humphreys (2012) introduced a new paradigm to measure perceptual self-prioritization processes. It seems that arbitrarily tagging shapes to self-relevant words (I, my, me, and so on) leads to speeded verification times when matching self-relevant word shape pairings (e.g., me – triangle) as compared to non-self-relevant word shape pairings (e.g., stranger – circle). In order to analyze the level at which self-prioritization takes place we analyzed whether the self-prioritization effect is due to a tagging of the self-relevant label and the particular associated shape or due to a tagging of the self with an abstract concept. In two experiments participants showed standard self-prioritization effects with varying stimulus features or different exemplars of a particular stimulus-category suggesting that self-prioritization also works at a conceptual level.

Transforming psychological practice and society: Policies that reflect the new paradigm.

2003 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol J. Gill ◽  
Donald G. Kewman ◽  
Ruth W. Brannon
Keyword(s):  
New Paradigm ◽  
Psychological Practice

Articulating the “New Paradigm” of Psychotherapy Research

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1072-1073
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lambert ◽  
R. Scott Nebeker
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
New Paradigm
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