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Robert I. Simon, MD: Of psychiatry, law, and books.

Dr. Robert I. Simon, this year’s President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), is an exceptional psychiatrist, teacher, and colleague. His contributions have earned him the most prestigious awards in the field of forensic psychiatry. In perhaps the ultimate acknowledgment of his erudition, the Supreme Court cited one of his books, Clinical Psychiatry and the Law (1987), in...

Mass Informed Consent: Evidence on Upgrading Democracy with Polls and New Media by Adam F. Simon. Lanham, MD

can sustain activist involvement over time. Do the reduced costs of e-activism help cultivate decentralized social movement leadership? This is a well-researched and important study that draws from a nuanced understanding of the social movement literature, and it raises some important questions about how technological change affects our basic assumptions and concepts. For instance, the authors ...

Rüdiger Simon

Rüdiger Simon received his Diplom in Biology, and later his PhD from the University of Cologne under the guidance of Peter Starlinger. He then performed post-doctoral work with Enrico Coen at the John Innes Centre in Norwich from 1991 to 1993, with Martin Ganal at the IPK in Gatersleben from 1993 to 1994, and with George Coupland at the John Innes Centre from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 he started an...

Pen and Paper Arguments for SIMON and SIMON-like Designs

In this work, we analyze the resistance of Simon-like ciphers against differential attacks without using computer-aided methods. In this context, we first define the notion of a Simonlike cipher as a generalization of the Simon design. For certain instances, we present a method for proving the resistance against differential attacks by upper bounding the probability of a differential characteri...

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