Though the Boneh-Franklin scheme is provably secure, the security proof rests on relatively new assumptions about the hardness of problems in certain elliptic curve groups.

Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s ' New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution.

Though it isn't fully confirmed, there are assumptions that the teaching Dahl received from Hannibal was finished before they ever had permission from the authorities in Sweden to open a portrait academy.

Though Dar es Salaam lost its official status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974 ( a move which was not complete until 1996 ), it remains the centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to serve as the capital for the surrounding Dar es Salaam Region.

Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of " resignation " ( as presented by the US ) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a resignation.

Though Bruce is a minor character, his battles and the events surrounding his war against England are catalogued.

Though influential in their own right, these strands of research have not been given much attention in the debate surrounding linguistic relativity, which has tended to center on the American paradigm exemplified by Sapir and Whorf.

Though the Tribune endorsed George Ryan in the 1998 Illinois gubernatorial race, the paper subsequently investigated and reported on the scandals surrounding Ryan during his preceding years as Secretary of State.

Though reinstated in a plebiscite, the controversy surrounding Leopold led to his abdication.

Though the exterior shots were always filmed on location in Holmfirth and the surrounding countryside, the interior shots were, until the early 1990s, filmed in front of a live studio audience at BBC Television Centre in London.

Though the official total area of the town is 11. 2 square miles, approximately 100 square miles of the surrounding Los Gatos Mountains ( within the Santa Cruz Mountains range ), has a Los Gatos address and uses the 95033 zip code ( primarily ) for U. S. Postal Service mail delivery ( among other purposes ).

Though it is older than the areas surrounding it, it now serves primarily as a residential suburb of Baltimore.

Though no longer an island in the twelfth century, the high conical bulk of Glastonbury Tor had been surrounded by marsh before the surrounding fenland in the Somerset Levels was drained.

Though not a municipality, it is sometimes recognized as the largest suburb of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania ( while Upper Darby Township, Lower Merion Township, Bensalem Township, Abington Township and Bristol Township are municipalities larger in size in the three surrounding Pennsylvania counties ).

Though the population of the surrounding county declined during the 1880s, Refugio continued to grow during this period, and by 1890 there were an estimated 1, 100 people living there.

Though the number of farms in the area surrounding the city declined after World War II, the oil and gas industry helped to sustain the local economy until the county's petroleum production dropped significantly during the 1980s.

Though there is still some controversy surrounding this point, to date no-one has offered proof that the episode did NOT air on that date in any US market.

Though visitors were originally allowed inside the folly the area surrounding it has been fenced off due to an instance of suicide off the cliff edge.

Though the actual end of the shogunate and establishment of an Imperial government following Western modes was handled entirely peacefully, through political petitions and the like, the years surrounding the event were not an entirely bloodless revolution.

Though the debate surrounding the cause of Alexander's sudden death has never been clearly resolved, all of our ancient sources — even those who reject the notion of murder and assign the death to natural causes — mention that rumours abounded in the late fourth century BC that Antipater had been responsible for poisoning the great king.

Though these industries have declined over the past decade, Faro is attempting to attract eco-tourists to the region to view such animals as Dall's Sheep and Stone's Sheep — a species of mountain sheep almost unique to the surrounding area.

Though relatively small, Stalbridge is quite independent, with its own small supermarket, newsagent, electronics store, GP Surgery and many other services, reflecting its catchment area of surrounding farms and hamlets.

Though cloisters served functions of quiet meditation or a study garden, the uses of the surrounding buildings in the St. Gall plan, each entered only through the covered porches, show how central the cloister was to the communal life: on the eastern side stood the calefactoria or warming room, the sole heated space, with above it the dormitory ; on the south side the refectory, with above it the vestiarium (" vestiary "); on the west side the cellar for wines and beer with above it the larder.

Though he had the upper hand, with his soldiers surrounding Black James and his men, Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, Ireland's premier earl, wished to end the bloody feud between both families.

Though the Sandbaggers ' missions took them all over the world, most of the exterior filming was actually done in the city of Leeds and the surrounding Yorkshire countryside.

Though Ivan managed to retake the city with little difficulty, the treachery and conspiracy involved in the original seizure led him to order the executions of the assistant crown secretaries of Izborsk, as well as the secretaries of the surrounding fortresses.

Though not particularly high, compared to other peaks within Scotland, the mountain is very prominent, owing to its isolation and the relative flatness of the surrounding terrain, and dominates the skyline from several viewpoints.

Though physical confrontations between the two species are usually dominated by the larger wolves, coyotes have been known to attack wolves if they outnumber them.

Though he saw his " principle of variation " as explaining the development of varieties, Hutton rejected the idea of evolution originating species as a " romantic fantasy ".

Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with " great fish " or " big fish " ( whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity ).

Though the ruffed lemur species are the only lemurids that have true litters, consisting of anywhere from 2 to 6 offspring.

Though many planktic ( or planktonic — see the next section below ) species are microscopic in size, plankton includes organisms covering a wide range of sizes, including large organisms such as jellyfish.

Though the two species are never seen together, several references are made to the Rutan Host, an equally militaristic race with whom the Sontarans have been at war for more than 50, 000 years (" The Poison Sky ").

Though depending on the species the lethality of poison varies.

Though varying considerably in appearance ( see gallery below ), these species generally have thick, stout stems and fleshy leaves, sometimes with leaf windows.

Though in most species at least part of the disc is needed for complete regeneration, in a few species of sea stars a single severed arm can grow into a complete individual over a period of several months.

Though interbreeding with other pike species can complicate the classification of some individuals, zoologists usually recognize from zero to three subspecies of muskellunge.

Though few physical barriers exist above the mesopelagic, specific species of zooplankton are strictly restricted by salinity and temperature gradients ; while other species can withstand wide temperature and salinity gradients.

Though Dattero di mare ( Lithophaga lithophaga ) was once eaten, overfishing drove it to the verge of extinction ( it takes 15 to 35 years to reach adult size and could only be harvested by smashing the calcarean rocks that form its habitat ) and the Italian government has declared it an endangered species since 1998 and its harvest and sale are forbidden.

Though limited mainly to the insect order Hymenoptera, Diptera and Coleoptera parasitoids make up as much as 10 % of all insect species.

Though the lives of individual species differ, a general fig wasp life cycle is as follows.

Though these species are sometimes known as " pygmy hippopotami " they are not believed to be closely related to C. liberiensis.

Though a Catholic ( lay or ordained ) receiving the Eucharist under either form ( bread or wine ) is receiving Christ " whole and entire "— his body, blood, soul, and divinity — the priest, who is acting in persona Christi, is required to receive under both species when offering Mass — not for the validity of his Communion, but for the fullness of the sacrifice of the Mass.

Though the tree is rare east of the Mississippi River in modern times, it exists in pockets of the blight-free West, where the habitat was agreeable for planting: settlers brought seeds for American chestnut with them in the 19th century, and the species still exists in part because of this.

Though the trees themselves are few in species, the ecosystem these trees create provides a home for a great variety of other organisms.

Though some storks are highly threatened, no species or subspecies are known to have gone extinct in historic times.

Though there are only a few commonly used species, there are many cultivars and methods of preparing chili peppers that have different names for culinary use.

Though the overall effect of the entire genus on humans is probably detrimental, this is merely due to the considerable damage done by a handful of species when these are allowed to spread uncontrolled.