The basal phylogeny of Chelicerata is one of the opaquest parts of the animal Tree of Life,
defying resolution despite application of thousands of loci and millions of sites. At the …

Time-lock encryption is a method to encrypt a message such that it can only be decrypted
after a certain deadline has passed. We propose a novel time-lock encryption scheme …

Taxon sampling is a central aspect of phylogenetic study design, but it has received limited
attention in the context of total-evidence dating, a widely used dating approach that directly …

With the rapid development of versatile cloud services, it becomes increasingly susceptible
to use cloud services to share data in a friend circle in the cloud computing environment …

This paper presents Droplet, a decentralized data access control service. Droplet enables
data owners to securely and selectively share their encrypted data while guaranteeing data …

The present study deals with new material of carnivorans (Mustelidae, Mephitidae, Ailuridae,
Potamotheriinae and Viverridae) from the basal Tortonian (Late Miocene, late Astaracian) …

Marine mammals are key components of aquatic ecosystems. Feeding strategies identified
in extant cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, marine otters, and polar bears are associated with …

In this work, we provide a systematisation of knowledge of delay-based cryptography, in
which we discuss and compare the existing primitives within cryptography that utilise a time …

Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walruses, and their fossil relatives) are one of the most
successful mammalian clades to live in the oceans. Despite a well-resolved molecular …

Living true seals (phocids) are the most widely dispersed semi-aquatic marine mammals,
and comprise geographically separate northern (phocine) and southern (monachine) …