Bar-Ilan University

About: Bar-Ilan University is a education organization based out in Ramat Gan, Israel. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 12835 authors who have published 34964 publications receiving 995648 citations. The organization is also known as: Bar Ilan University & BIU.

ISA, ISSAM, EAU, EAA and ASA recommendations: investigation, treatment and monitoring of late-onset hypogonadism in males

Abstract: Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA, USA, Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University Hospital Halle, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Department of Urology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, Department of Endocrinology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Endocrinology, Academish Ziekenhuis, Gent, Belgium, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Sart-Tilman, Liege, Belgium, Faculty of Life Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Centre for Applied Urological Research, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, Division of Geriatric Medicine, St. Louis University and GRECC, St. Louis VA Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, USA, Department of Urology, Erasme Hospital, University Clinics Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA, Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University Hospitals, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, and Department of Endocrinology, University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK

Efficient Protocols for Set Intersection and Pattern Matching with Security Against Malicious and Covert Adversaries.

Abstract: In this paper we construct efficient secure protocols for set intersection and pattern matching. Our protocols for securely computing the set intersection functionality are based on secure pseudorandom function evaluations, in contrast to previous protocols that are based on polynomials. In addition to the above, we also use secure pseudorandom function evaluation in order to achieve secure pattern matching. In this case, we utilize specific properties of the Naor-Reingold pseudorandom function in order to achieve high efficiency. Our results are presented in two adversary models. Our protocol for secure pattern matching and one of our protocols for set intersection achieve security against malicious adversaries under a relaxed definition where one corruption case is simulatable and for the other only privacy (formalized through indistinguishability) is guaranteed. We also present a protocol for set intersection that is fully simulatable in the model of covert adversaries. Loosely speaking, this means that a malicious adversary can cheat, but will then be caught with good probability.

Intranasal Delivery of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived Exosomes Loaded with Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog siRNA Repairs Complete Spinal Cord Injury.

Abstract: Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) usually suffer from permanent neurological deficits, while spontaneous recovery and therapeutic efficacy are limited. Here, we demonstrate that when given intranasally, exosomes derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSC-Exo) could pass the blood brain barrier and migrate to the injured spinal cord area. Furthermore, MSC-Exo loaded with phosphatase and tensin homolog small interfering RNA (ExoPTEN) could attenuate the expression of PTEN in the injured spinal cord region following intranasal administrations. In addition, the loaded MSC-Exo considerably enhanced axonal growth and neovascularization, while reducing microgliosis and astrogliosis. The intranasal ExoPTEN therapy could also partly improve structural and electrophysiological function and, most importantly, significantly elicited functional recovery in rats with complete SCI. The results imply that intranasal ExoPTEN may be used clinically to promote recovery for SCI individuals.

The Evolution of Sharedplans

Abstract: Rational agents often need to work together. There are jobs that cannot be done by one agent—for example, singing a duet or operating a computer network—and jobs that are more efficiently done by more than one agent—for example, hanging a door or searching the Internet. Collaborative behavior—coordinated activity in which the participants work jointly with each other to satisfy a shared goal—is more than the sum of individual acts [24, 8] and may be distinguished from both interaction and simple coordination in terms of the commitments agents make to each other [4, 10, 9]. A theory of collaboration must therefore treat not only the intentions, abilities, and knowledge about action of individual agents, but also their coordination in group planning and acting. It also must account for the ways in which plans are incrementally formed and executed by the participants.