This document contains several sections of the CAST-256 AES Submission Package delivered to NIST on June 9, 1998. All complete submissions received by NIST will be made public in late August at the First AES Candidate Conference, but the following material is being made available now so that public analysis of the CAST-256 algorithm may begin (see, for example, http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/aes.h...

How citizens’ perceptions of societal problems are shaped by media use has been a critical question in effects research for decades. This study addresses specific puzzle concerning contemporary fragmented environments: the dual role trust as both (a) an antecedent variable guiding news selection and (b) moderator conditioning on problems. Building upon differential susceptibility to model, we a...

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