The subject of this paper, an improbable implementation of a recently standardized cryptographic hash function on a thirty-five-yearold microcomputer, may strike some as unusual and recreative at best. In the tedious discipline of the process, however, lessons were learned in implementation trade-offs for basic cryptographic primitives which may prove interesting in the current context of secur...

The present study refers to an analysis of eighty cases of depression. The annual incidence in our psychiatric population ranges from 17-20% of all the new psychiatric cases. The peak incidence was observed in the age group of 26-45 years, without any particular affinity to either sex. 83.8% of our sample were married and those hailing from nuclear families formed the larger proportion (58.75%)...

A high percentage of the pigments produced by Talaromyces spp. remains inside the cell, which could lead to a high product concentration inhibition. To overcome this issue an extractive fermentation process, perstraction, was suggested, which involves the extraction of the intracellular products out of the cell by using a two-phase system during the fermentation. The present work studied the ef...

Recent trends in German life expectancy show a considerable increase. Most of this increase has resulted from decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed significantly between men and women as well as between East and West Germany. While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable decreases in East Germany did not becom...

Objectives: To examine whether older parents in China would benefit more from daughters’ care than from sons’ care. Methods: Analysis of the unique datasets of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey conducted in 2002, 2005 and 2008-2009 in 22 provinces. Results: As compared to having son(s), having daughter(s) is significantly more beneficial at older ages in China, with regards to m...

background: to evaluate the frequency, clinical presentation and cardiac involvement of children with rf in the north-east of iran. methods: a case series analysis was conducted on 80 patients with acute rheumatic fever (arf), who were hospitalized   at ghaem hospital in mashad between 1994 and 2000, were studied. laboratory tests and results from echocardiographic examinations, and clinical fi...

ARMIN BISCHOFF, LISÈLE CRÉMIEUX, MARIE SMILAUEROVA, CLARE S. LAWSON, SIMON R. MORTIMER, JIRI DOLEZAL, VOJTECH LANTA, ANDREW R. EDWARDS, ALEX J. BROOK, MIRKA MACEL, JAN LEPS, THOMAS STEINGER and HEINZ MÜLLER-SCHÄRER 1 University of Fribourg, Department of Biology, Unit of Ecology and Evolution, Chemin du musée 10, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, CZ-370...