We consider the 3GPP confidentiality and integrity schemes that were adopted by Universal Mobile Telecommunication System, an emerging standard for third generation wireless communications. The schemes, known as f8 and f9, are based on the block cipher KASUMI. Although previous works claim security proofs for f8 and f9′, where f9′ is a generalized version of f9, it was shown that these proofs a...

Reactions of the diphosphine 1,3-C6H4(CH2PH2)2 and fluorous alkenes H2C=CHR(fn)(R(fn)=(CF2)(n-1)CF3; n = 6, 8) at 75 degrees C in the presence of AIBN give the title ligands 1,3-C6H4(CH2P(CH2CH2R(fn))2)2(3-R(fn)) and byproducts 1,3-C6H4(CH3)(CH2P(CH2CH2R(fn))2)(4-R(fn)) in 1 : 3 to 1 : 5 ratios. Workups give -R(fn) in 4--17% yields. Similar results are obtained photochemically. Reaction of 1,3-...

Current screening methods for factor VIII gene (F8) mutations can reveal the causative alteration in the vast majority of haemophilia A patients. Yet, standard diagnostic methods fail in about 2% of cases. This study aimed at analysing the entire intronic sequences of the F8 gene in 15 haemophilia A patients by next generation sequencing. All patients had a mild to moderate phenotype and no mut...

Section 0. Introduction The following example provided the motivation for this paper. Let F8 be the field with 8 elements, and let F8 be its group of units which acts on F8 via left multiplication. The cohomology ring H(F8 ×7 F8; F2) ∼= F2[x1, x2, x3] is of much interest to topologists ([A], [CS], [M]). It is a straight forward exercise to construct minimal sets of homogeneous generators and re...

Hemophilia A (HA) is caused by heterogeneous mutations in the factor VIII gene (F8). This paper reports 16 novel small F8-mutations and rearrangements in a series of 80 Argentinian families with severe-HA. Using an updated scheme for F8-analysis, we found 37 F8-inversions (46%), 10 large deletions (13%), 13 small ins/del (16%), 7 nonsense (9%) and 8 missense mutations (10%), including 4 new one...

Chronic wounds represent a major medical challenge. While the essential role of blood vessel growth and function in wound healing has been thoroughly studied, lymphatic vessels remained unclear. Full-thickness excisional were made wildtype mice, transgenic mice with an increased number cutaneous (K14-VEGF-C expressing lymphangiogenic factor VEGF-C skin), that lack skin (K14-sVEGFR3 soluble form...

Schistosoma mansoni soluble egg antigens (SEA) were fractionated by isoelectric focusing, resulting in 20 components, characterized by pH, absorbance and protein concentration. The higher absorbance fractions were submitted to electrophoresis, and fraction 8 (F8) presented a specific pattern of bands on its isoelectric point. Protein 3 was observed only on F8, and so, it was utilized to rabbit ...

This paper analyses the 3GPP confidentiality and integrity schemes adopted by UniversalMobile Telecommunication System, an emerging standard for third generation wireless commu-nications. The schemes, known as f8 and f9, are based on the block cipher KASUMI. Althoughprevious works claim security proofs for f8 and f9′, where f9′ is a generalized versions of f9,it was recently sho...

The messenger RNA (mRNA) from 5 of 69 patients with severe hemophilia A did not support amplification of complementary DNA containing the first few exons of the factor VIII (F8) gene but supported amplification of mRNA containing exon 1 of F8 plus exons of the VBP1 gene. This chimeric mRNA signals an inversion breaking intron 1 of the F8 gene. Using an inversion patient, one deleted for F8 exon...

The development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC), a promising class of anticancer agents, has traditionally relied on the use of antibodies capable of selective internalization in tumor cells. We have recently shown that also noninternalizing antibodies, coupled to cytotoxic drugs by means of disulfide linkers that can be cleaved in the tumor extracellular environment, can display a potent the...