Embryo transfer (ET) is universally recognized as the final and most critical stage in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcome (Neithardt et al., 2005; Ghazzawi et al., 1999). The majority of couples (approximately 80%) who undergo IVF reach the embryo transfer stage, yet few pregnancies occur (Mansour & Aboulghar, 2002; Adamson et al., 2006). Although embryo genetic abnormalities (Munne et al....

Why try a doctor when you need a dentist? ral conditions have some of the highest prevalence and incidence rates of all health problems in Australia. 1 They are frequently associated with pain, functional limitations and interference with usual activities. Most people experiencing oral symptoms will visit, or at least contemplate visiting, a dentist. But why are some patients with oral conditio...

Slide attacks use pairs of encryption operations which are slid against each other. Slide with a twist attacks are more sophisticated variants of slide attacks which slide an encryption operation against a decryption operation, and were used in 2000 to attack several cryptosystems, including DESX, the Even-Mansour construction, and Feistel structures with four-round self-similarity. They were f...

Recent results of Kaplan et al., building on previous work by Kuwakado and Morii, have shown that a wide variety of classically-secure symmetric-key cryptosystems are completely broken when exposed to quantum CPA attacks. In such an attack, the quantum adversary has the ability to query the cryptographic functionality in superposition. The vulnerable cryptosystems include the Even-Mansour block...

In the last years, much research work has been invested into the security analysis of key alternating ciphers in the random oracle model. These are pseudorandom permutations (PRPs), sometimes also called iterated Even-Mansour ciphers, which are defined by alternatingly adding n-bit sub-keys ki and calling public n-bit permutations Pi. Besides the fact, that results of this kind concern the fund...