The objective of this study was to analyse the influence of selected factors in relation to total bacterial counts (TBC) in bulk milk samples. Milk samples were tested in nine cowsheds of seven farms for a period of one year. The TBC values were determined by the automated estimation of bacterial counts in cow’s raw milk by directly counting the bacterial cells on a BactoScan 8000 apparatus. Th...

Liskov, Rivest and Wagner formalized the tweakable blockcipher (TBC) primitive at CRYPTO’02. The typical recipe for instantiating a TBC is to start with a blockcipher, and then build up a construction that admits a tweak. Almost all such constructions enjoy provable security only to the birthday bound, and the one that does achieve security beyond the birthday bound (due to Minematsu) severely ...

We propose a new mode of operation called ZMAC allowing to construct a (stateless and deterministic) message authentication code (MAC) from a tweakable block cipher (TBC). When using a TBC with n-bit blocks and t-bit tweaks, our construction provides security (as a variable-input-length PRF) beyond the birthday bound with respect to the block-length n and allows to process n + t bits of inputs ...

The concentrations of progesterone, cortisol, estradiol, and transcortin binding capacity (TBC) were measured in plasma samples of women during normal pregnancy. Between 10 weeks and 20 weeks gestation, the mean of TBC increased linearly, and the mean increase in TBC for a given estradiol increment was constant until the estradiol concentrations reached approximately 30 nmol per liter. The resu...

Highly scattering plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) present a challenge for optical diagnostic methods to monitor TBC delamination because scattering attenuates light transmitted through the TBC and usually degrades contrast between attached and delaminated regions of the TBC. This paper presents a new approach where reflectance-enhanced luminescence from a luminescent sublayer inc...

Tuberculosis (TBC), caused by the bacterium My tuberculosis (Mtb), is a growing international health crisis [1]. TBC is one of the main causes of death produced by infectious illness and is responsible for almost 3 millions deaths every year [2]. In this study, a controlled Expert System (ES) have designed to diagnosis of TBC and truth table have created by considering the probabilities of TBC ...

Using classical molecular dynamics simulations, we have studied thermal boundary conductance (TBC) between a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) and surrounding Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluids. With an aim to identify a general model that explains the TBC for various surrounding materials, TBC was calculated for three different surrounding LJ fluids, hydrogen, nitrogen, and argon in supercritical ph...

INTRODUCTION Cutaneous tuberculosis (TBC) is a chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and is present in less than 1-2% of all TBC cases. The current problem with diagnosis is the demonstration of bacillus in the skin, especially paucibacillar forms, where sources like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have improved diagnostic capacity. CASE PRESENTATION Two cases of cutaneous TBC...

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are expected to be used in various electrical and thermal device applications. In particular, the thermal boundary conductance (TBC) K between an SWNT and surrounding fluid –the inverse of thermal boundary resistance (TBR)– is one of the most important characteristics for thermal managements of SWNTs in various fields. The cooling rate of SWNTs in electron...

Based on the loss distribution and efficiency analysis, a comparative study between a series resonant three-port bidirectional DC-DC converter (SR-TBC) and a multi-resonant three-port bi-directional DC-DC converter (MR-TBC) is reported here. By using the Fourier equivalent analysis method in hand, the resonant current, switching current expressions, zero voltage soft switching (ZVS) conditions ...