The use of fixed-block error recovery, which combines frequent validation and partial recomputation, to address the problem of transient faults in elliptic curve scalar multiplication was proposed earlier and its advantages in terms of efficiency and reliability were illustrated. However, in order to maximize its advantages, the selection of the block size has to be optimized, which requires kn...

This study examined the trajectories of emotional states and their within-person synergies with perceived stress and recovery during a 4-month training period preceding the French swimming championships. A Multilevel Growth Curve Analysis approach was used with 16 high level swimmers. Five waves of assessments of emotional states, perceived stress and recovery were completed. Results indicated ...

Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI using gadolinium or manganese provides unique characterization of myocardium and its pathology. In this study, an electrocardiography (ECG) triggered saturation recovery Look-Locker method was developed and validated for fast cardiac T(1) mapping in small animal models. By sampling the initial portion of the longitudinal magnetization recovery curve, high temporal ...

OBJECTIVE Sudden hearing loss in children under 15 years old is rare and its pathophysiology remains unclear. The aim of this retrospective study was to define prognostic factors of sudden hearing loss in children under 15 years old. METHODS Among the patients referred to our institution during the period 1990-1999 for sudden hearing loss, 12 children were considered eligible for this study (...

Elliptic curve cryptosystems (ECC) are new generations of public key cryptosystems that have a smaller key size for the same level of security. The exponentiation on elliptic curve is the most important operation in ECC, so when the ECC is put into practice, the major problem is how to enhance the speed of the exponentiation. It is thus of great interest to develop algorithms for exponentiation...

A rapid, sensitive and reproducible HPLC method using amperometric detector was developed and validated for the analysis of clarithromycin in human plasma. The separation was achieved on a monolithic silica column (MZ- C8 125×4.0 mm) using acetonitrile- methanol-potassium dihydrogen phosphate buffer (40:6:54,v/v), with pH of 7.5, as the mobile phase at a flow rate of 1.5 mL/min. The assay enabl...

The electrochemical behavior of tetrahydrozoline (THZ) was explored by cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry. A well-defined peak at 915 mV using gold nanomodified electrode (AuNPts/CP) in presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) was detected. Different buffers, pH and scan rates on oxidation peak current were studied. Linear calibration curve was achieved in the range of 1.99×...

—It has been estimated that approximately one-third of hardwood sawlogs have a significant amount of sweep and that 7 to nearly 40 percent of the yield is lost from logs that have greater than 1 inch of sweep. While decreased yield is important, for hardwood logs the loss of lumber value is likely more significant. A method that produced lumber while accounting for log curvature (sweep) would a...

Faults can corrupt data in storage, in transit, or during a computation. Like other digital systems, cryptosystems are vulnerable to natural and artificial faults. However, the effects of faults on cryptosystems far suppress the corruption of data. Attacks that exploit various classes of faults to learn secret data have been proposed and shown to be practical. As such, efficient detection and r...

Occupancy detection can greatly facilitate heating, ventilation and cooling and lightning control for building energy saving. Sensor-based occupancy detection is usually costly and may suffer from high false positive rates. As such, occupancy detection using load curve data has been proposed. Such methods, however, normally (i) rely on tedious and nontrivial model training process and (ii) do n...