Andres Blei (Andy) October 1949-October 2008

Cove Vol.5, No.3, October 2008

Progress Report : October 2008 - April 2009

In the first six months of my PhD I have tried to lay a solid foundation in analysis with background reading as well as looking at problems involving finite elements. I hope that this mainly theoretical approach will enable me to produce rigorous results when studying applied problems. More details are included in Section 1. In January I attended the MAGIC Conference in Manchester, where I pres...

In the October 2008 Issue of Clinics

In this issue, we show images obtained by Miyakawa et al who develop an ex vivo flow system that allows for controlled hemodynamics in order to mimic arterial and venous conditions. Human saphenous veins were cultured either under venous or arterial hemodynamic conditions. Cell viability , cell density and apoptosis were compared before and after these intervals. Cell density was higher and apo...

A Rejoinder to David Bartram , October 2008

This brief article is a direct and invited rejoinder to the comments by David Bartram on our original paper on the use of 360 degree feedback in coaching. Bartram raises important issues which are likely to be of concern and interest to coaches and other users of psychometric tools, even if they do not relate directly to the primary focus of our original paper. This rejoinder reiterates our ori...

RFC 5297 SIV - AES October 2008

This memo describes SIV (Synthetic Initialization Vector), a block cipher mode of operation. SIV takes a key, a plaintext, and multiple variable-length octet strings that will be authenticated but not encrypted. It produces a ciphertext having the same length as the plaintext and a synthetic initialization vector. Depending on how it is used, SIV achieves either the goal of deterministic authen...