Several authors suggest that the use of twist secure Elliptic Curves automatically leads to secure implementations. We argue that even for twist secure curves a point validation has to be performed. We illustrate this with examples where the security of EC-algorithms is strongly degraded, even for twist secure curves. We show that the usual blindig countermeasures against SCA are insufficient (...

BACKGROUND Contraction of obliquely oriented left ventricular (LV) fibers results in a twisting motion of the left ventricle. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of acute human cardiac allograft rejection on LV twist pattern and the twist-volume relation. METHODS AND RESULTS Tantalum markers were implanted into the LV midwall in 15 transplant recipients to measure time-varying...

Background. Contraction of obliquely oriented left ventricular (LV) fibers results in a twisting motion of the left ventricle. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of acute human cardiac allograft rejection on LV twist pattern and the twist-volume relation. Methods and Results. Tantalum markers were implanted into the LV midwall in 15 transplant recipients to measure time-varying...

The structure of DNA in the nucleosome core particle is studied using an elastic model that incorporates anisotropy in the bending energetics and twist-bend coupling. Using the experimentally determined structure of nucleosomal DNA [T. J. Richmond and C. A. Davey, Nature (London) 423, 145 (2003)], it is shown that elastic correlations exist between twist, roll, tilt, and stretching of DNA, as w...

Differentiated thyroid carcinoma are lesions with a generally favorable prognosis, although there are patients with risk of recurrence and metastasis. In this study we analyzed 43 thyroid carcinomas referring to Twist expression in relation to clinicopathological parameters. The immunoreaction was identified in 79% of cases, the expression of twist being low or high, with no differences in rela...

Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) feature-tracking (FT) allows the quantitative assessment of complex ventricular mechanics such as strain, twist and untwist. LV twist results from the dynamic interplay between systolic clockwise rotation of the base and a counterclockwise rotation of the apex followed by untwisting during diastole. We sought to determine whether strain, myocar...

It is proved that the stable commutator length of a Dehn twist in the mapping class group is positive and the tenth power of a Dehn twist about a nonseparating simple closed curve is a product of two commutators. As an application a new proof of the fact that the growth rate of a Dehn twist is linear is given.

On the energy manifolds of fourth order conservative systems closed characteristics can be found inmany cases via analogues of Twist-maps. The ‘Twist property’ implies the existence of a generating function which leads to second order recurrence relations. We study these recurrence relations to find simple closed characteristics andwe give conditionswhen fourth order systems satisfy the ‘Twist ...

We show that the instanton model of the QCD vacuum indicates the parametric smallness of the twist-3 contributions to the polarized structure function h L. This smallness is related to the diluteness of the QCD instanton vacuum. 1. Among higher twist parton distributions the twist-3 distributions play a special role. In many physical observables the twist-3 distributions enter not suppressed by...

We model the full dynamics of a rigid part in three-point frictional sliding contact with a flat rigid 6-degree-offreedom plate. Given a periodic plate motion and the geometric, inertial, and frictional properties of the part, we define an asymptotic twist field mapping each part configuration to a unique part twist (linear and angular velocity). Asymptotic twist vectors in the field approximat...