PURPOSE To develop a set of conversion factors from dose length product (DLP) to effective dose (E) for pediatric and adult reference individuals undergoing computed tomography (CT) examinations. METHODS This study used 12 hybrid computational phantoms representing reference pediatric and adult individuals in compliance with the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) refer...

DJ-1, a Parkinson's disease (PD)-associated gene, has been shown to protect against oxidative stress in Drosophila. However, the molecular mechanism underlying oxidative stress-induced phenotypes, including apoptosis, locomotive defects, and lethality, in DJ-1-deficient flies is not fully understood. Here we showed that Daxx-like protein (DLP), a Drosophila homologue of the mammalian Death doma...

Disjunctive Logic Programming (DLP) is a very expressive formalism: it allows for expressing every property of finite structures that is decidable in the complexity class Σ2(=NP ). Despite this high expressiveness, there are some simple properties, often arising in real-world applications, which cannot be encoded in a simple and natural manner. Especially properties that require the use of arit...

The goal of this study is to develop a more appropriate shielding calculation method for computed tomography (CT) in comparison with the Japanese conventional (JC) method and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP)-dose length product (DLP) method. Scattered dose distributions were measured in a CT room with 18 scanners (16 scanners in the case of the JC method) for...

Drosophila Wingless (Wg) is the founding member of the Wnt family of secreted proteins. During the wing development, Wg acts as a morphogen whose concentration gradient provides positional cues for wing patterning. The molecular mechanism(s) of Wg gradient formation is not fully understood. Here, we systematically analyzed the roles of glypicans Dally and Dally-like protein (Dlp), the Wg recept...

The intractability of the traditional discrete logarithm problem (DLP) forms the basis for the design of numerous cryptographic primitives. In [2] M. Sramka et al. generalize the DLP to arbitrary finite groups. One of the reasons mentioned for this generalization is P. Shor’s quantum algorithm [4] which solves efficiently the traditional DLP. The DLP for a nonabelian group is based on a particu...

DLP (Description Logic Prover) is an experimental description logic knowledge representation system. DLP currently implements a superset of propositional dynamic logic as well as K (m) and KT (m). Although DLP is an experimental system, it nonetheless provides a fast satissability checker for the above propositional modal logics as well as a fast reasonder for knowledge bases.

The present study investigates the difficulty of solving the mathematical problem, namely the DLP (Discrete Logarithm Problem) for ephemeral keys. The DLP is the basis for many public key cryptosystems. The ephemeral keys are used in such systems to ensure security. The DLP defined on a prime field p Z * of random prime is considered in the present study. The most effective method to solve the ...

A novel high-performance liquid chromatographic/ultraviolet method was developed to detect lapachol (LP) and deoxylapachol (DLP) in wood dust as chemical markers of teak wood (a suspected human carcinogen). The specificity of this analysis was determined by noting the absence of LP and DLP in 12 other specimens of different woods belonging to the angiosperm family. The consistency was examined ...

It was recently proposed in the literature that the discretelogarithm problem (DLP) in trace-zero groups of genus 2 curves withrespect to constant field extensions of degree 3 is a fast and secure al-ternative to the well established cryptographic primitive of the DLP in elliptic curves over prime fields. We present a novel attack on this primitive. We show that the DLP inthe tr...