* Substantially revised from a presentation at the Fourth International Conference on Competence-Based Management, Oslo, Norway, June 18–21, 1998, “Can Strategy be Better than Acupuncture: A Realist/Semantic Conception of Competence-Based Research.” I wish to give special thanks to Shelby Hunt and other conference participants for comments on the earlier version. I also need to recognize the ma...

Short stereoselective syntheses of various cyclitols, including the derivatives of conduritol B, conduritol F, myo-inositol and chiro-inositol, have been accomplished. The key steps in the syntheses are a ring-closing metathesis process and a diastereodivergent organometallic addition to a D-xylose-derived alde-hyde.

In this paper we evaluate and improve different vector implementation techniques of AES-based designs. We analyze how well the T-table, bitsliced and bytesliced implementation techniques apply to the SHA-3 finalist Grøstl. We present a number of new Grøstl implementations which improve upon many previous results. For example, our fastest ARM NEON implementation of Grøstl is 40% faster than the ...