The purpose of this paper is to confirm the inference from an experiment reported in a previous paper (Morimoto, M., Iida, K. & Furue, Y., Applied Acoustics, 38 (1993) 291-301) that auditory source widths perceived in different sound fields with the same degree of interaural cross-correlation are equal to each other, regardless of the number and arriving direction of reflections. In this paper,...

β 2 -Microglobulin (β 2 -MG) is the substance that causes dialysis amyloidosis, and its predialysis value is useful for evaluating the quality of dialysis therapy itself. In addition, β 2 -MG is also an important biomarker for evaluating the removal performance of hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration (HDF). However, since β 2 -MG has a molecular weight of 11.8 kDa and can be efficiently removed b...

Due to the increased use of devices with restricted resources such as limited area size, power or energy, the community has developed various techniques for designing lightweight ciphers. One approach that is increasingly discussed is to use the cipher key that is stored on the device in non-volatile memory not only for the initialization of the registers but during the encryption/decryption pr...

lt is widely believed that embryos and infants during devetopment are highly sensitiye to chemicals that cause serious damage to growth. However, knowledge on the mechanisms of developmenta1 toxicity is scarce. One reason for this is limited convenient model system other than organ cultures using rodents to study the various aspects of developmentat toxicology. Cuttured cells are not always ade...

Babazono, Akira (Fukuoka) Ezura, Yoichi (Tokyo) Fujishiro, Hitomi (Tokushima) Fukuda, Yoshiharu (Ube) Fukunaga, Ichiro (Kochi) Furuya, Hiroyuki (Isehara) Hamazaki, Kei (Toyama) Harada, Kouji (Kyoto) Hida, Kazuyuki (Okayama) Hiraku, Yusuke (Tsu) Hirano, Seishiro (Tsukuba) Hisanaga, Naomi (Komaki) Hiura, Mizue (Kumamoto) Horiuchi, Masahisa (Kagoshima) Ichiba, Masayoshi (Saga) Ichihara, Gaku (Nago...

ON THE OPTIMIZATION OF REFRIGERATION MACHINERY Goran Wall Physical Resource Theory Group Chalmers University of Technology University of Goteborg S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden (*present address: Tokyo Institute of Technolog y Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 227, Japan) We present the application of thermoeconomics to the optimization of a model of a...

Midori is a family of SPN-based lightweight block ciphers designed to optimize the hardware energy consumption per bit during the encryption and decryption operations. At ASIACRYPT 2015, two variants of the cipher, namely Midori128 and Midori64, which support a 128-bit secret key and a 64/128-bit block, respectively, were proposed. Recently, a meet-in-the-middle attack and an invariant subspace...