Combating Midnight Regulation

Combating Midnight Regulation

The flurry of regulatory activity by the outgoing administration of President George W. Bush has raised, once again, the specter of midnight regulation. In contrast to the late-term action of the Clinton Administration, much of the Bush Administration‘s late-term action seems to have been more deregulatory than regulatory, but from a political and legal standpoint, that distinction may not make...

Midnight Radiology

Computed tomography of the head has become an integral part of the emergency evaluation of a wide variety of conditions and chief complaints, including trauma, stroke, seizure, altered mental status, headache, and fever. In 2005, one in eight patients in one tertiary care Emergency Department underwent a head CT [1]. This review will detail important head CT findings, focusing on those which ar...

Combating Stress with Yoga: A Theoretical Model of Self-Regulation

On Blue Midnight Wish Decomposition

Blue Midnight Wish is one of the 14 candidates in the second round of the NIST SHA-3 competition [1]. In this paper we present a decomposition of the Blue Midnight Wish core functions, what gives deeper look at the Blue Midnight Wish family of hash functions and a tool for their cryptanalysis. We used this decomposition for better understanding the insights of Blue Midnight Wish functions and t...

Pinworm infection – Ovulation at midnight

A 6-year-old girl presented to the emergency department after experiencing genital pain, which had lasted for a few hours, in the middle of the night. A physical examination revealed a moving filamentous object (length: about 7 mm) on her external genitalia. The sharp pain disappeared when the object was removed. By using light microscopy, it was identified as an ovulating female pinworm that h...