Long waits online undermine users’ evaluations of Web sites and their providers, triggering abandonment behaviors. Yet e-business researchers and practitioners have not perfected mechanisms to respond to online wait issues. A filler interface that runs during the wait for search results may influence online users’ perceived waiting time (PWT); however, no scientific investigation has attempted ...

A comparison of university lecturers’ perception towards consumption of genetically modifi ed foods in Nigeria and Botswana was conducted in 2007. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 lecturers out of 685 from fi ve faculties of agriculture in south western Nigeria and 47 from 67 in Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA). Data were collected through structured questionnaire on...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess user acceptability and effectiveness of implant contraception in Singaporean women. METHODS A prospective study was carried out on 553 patients who received Norplant implant in our hospital from 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2000, and followed-up till 15 July 2003. The patients' profile, side-effects, satisfaction and continuation rate of Norpl...

BACKGROUND Fat grafting has emerged as a useful method for breast contouring in aesthetic and reconstructive patients. Advancements have been made in fat graft harvest and delivery, but the ability to judge the overall success of fat grafting remains limited. The authors applied three-dimensional imaging technology to assess volumetric fat graft survival following autologous fat transfer to the...

In this paper, we present a low power high temperature 80C51 microcontroller. The low power optimizations are applied at gate and architectural level, by using extensive clock and data gating, and by completely redesigning the micro-architecture. We also present original clock gating techniques: pre-computed clock gating. To validate these techniques, extensive comparisons with other realizatio...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2013.12.005 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: 98 (0)21 8752 4022; fax: +98 (0)21 8851 2596. E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] (R.Z. Farahani), [email protected] (M. Hekmatfar). 1 Tel.: +44 (0)20 8417 5098; fax: +44 (0)20 8417 7026. Reza Zanjirani F...

In this paper we present a variation of the template attack classification process that can be applied to block ciphers when the plaintext and ciphertext used are unknown. In a näıve implementation this attack can be applied to any round of a block cipher. We also show that when a block cipher is implemented with the masking countermeasure a similar attack can be applied to the first round of t...

1 Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, via Pietro Giuria 9, 10125 Torino, Italy 2 Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84103 Beer-Sheva, Israel 3 Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Children’s Hospital, ...