sleep plays a vital role in regulating physiological mechanisms in the human body. nowadays, by the change of lifestyle and as a consequence of longer work hours and increased accessibility to media, sleep disturbance becomes a common problem in modern society. many studies demonstrated that sleep disturbance triggers a systemic low-grade inflammation by increasing the level of several cytokine...

Piccolo is a lightweight block cipher designed by Sony Corporation and published in CHES 2011. It inherits the Generalized Feistel Network (GFN) structure and operates on a 64-bit state. It has two versions; Piccolo-80 and Piccolo-128 with 80-bit and 128-bit keys, respectively. In this paper, we propose meet-in-the-middle attacks on 14-round reduced Piccolo-80 and 16, 17-round reduced Piccolo-1...

AbstrAct: LTSC-128 is a high secure stream cipher based on the hardness of the Shortest Vector Problem in Lattice space. The cipher is based on vectors multiplication over finite field, where these vectors are represented by polynomials to enhance the per formance of keystream generation. The key size is 128 bits and there is no attack faster than exhaustive key search has been identified. The ...

Abstract. In this paper, we evaluate the security of lightweight block ciphers PRESENT, Piccolo and LED against biclique cryptanalysis. To recover the secret key of PRESENT-80/128, our attacks require 2 full PRESENT-80 encryptions and 2 full PRESENT-128 encryptions, respectively. Our attacks on Piccolo-80/128 require computational complexities of 2 and 2, respectively. The attack on a 29-round ...

This study sought to compare the image quality and radiation dose of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) from prospectively triggered 128-slice CT (128-MSCT) versus dual-source 64-slice CT (DSCT). The study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Eighty consecutive patients with stable heart rates lower...

BACKGROUND Colitis is a well-known subtype of inflammatory bowel disease and is caused by diverse factors. Previous research has shown that KIOM-MA elicits anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects on various diseases. KIOM-MA-128, our novel herbal formula, was generated from KIOM-MA using probiotics to improve the therapeutic efficacy. We investigated whether KIOM-MA-128 has protective activ...

In this paper we present a parallel formulation of a graph partitioning and sparse matrix ordering algorithm that is based on a multilevel algorithm we developed recently. Our parallel algorithm achieves a speedup of up to 56 on a 128-processorCray T3D for moderate size problems, further reducing its already moderate serial run time. Graphs with over 200,000 vertices can be partitioned in 128 p...

The s-process branching at 128 I has been investigated on the basis of new, precise experimental (n, γ) cross sections for the s-only isotopes 128 Xe and 130 Xe. This branching is unique, since it is essentially determined by the temperature-and density-sensitive stellar decay rates of 128 I and only marginally affected by the specific stellar neutron flux. For this reason it represents an impo...