PURPOSE This paper represents the initial phase of a proposed operator-friendly semiautomatic method for positioning and directing an intravascular three-magnet tip catheter in the human heart using an electromagnetic system. METHODS A predictive computer algorithm based on a comprehensive mathematical model is developed, which accurately calculates the magnetic field generated by the electro...

ICEPOLE is a CAESAR candidate which is claimed to have intermediate level of robustness under nonce reuse circumstances. In this report, we apply the differential-linear cryptanalysis to the ICEPOLE family and show that ICEPOLE is insecure when the nonce is reused. Under the nonce-misuse circumstances, there is differential-linear distinguishing attack on ICEPOLE with time and data complexity l...

Temozolomide (TMZ), an alkylating agent of the imidazotetrazine series, is a first-line chemotherapeutic drug used in the clinical therapy of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and high-grade primary glioma in adults. Micro (mi)RNAs, which are small noncoding RNAs, post-transcriptionally regulate gene expressions and are involved in gliomagenesis. However, no studies have reported relatio...

The boomerang and rectangle attacks are adaptions of differential cryptanalysis that regard the target cipher E as a composition two sub-ciphers, i.e., = E1 ∘ E0, to construct distinguisher for with probability p2q2 by concatenating short trails E0 p q respectively. According previous research, dependency between these characteristics has great impact on distinguishers. Dunkelman et al. propose...

In this study, propagation characteristics of surface acoustic waves in a layered piezoelectric structure (AlN/128°Y-X LiNbO3) are investigated. The phase velocity and coupling coefficient of the layered structure with interdigital transducers and/or metal thin films deposited at various interfaces will be calculated numerically. The effects of the polarity of 128°Y-X LiNbO3 on SAW characterist...