The Dragon stream cipher is one of the focus ciphers which have reached Phase 2 of the eSTREAM project. In this paper, we present a new method of building a linear distinguisher for Dragon. The distinguisher is constructed by exploiting the biases of two S-boxes and the modular addition which are basic components of the nonlinear function F . The bias of the distinguisher is estimated to be aro...

We tested whether respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity in response to each of three self-regulation tasks (bird and dragon; knock-tap; and gift wrap) would predict self-regulation performance in a sample of 101 preschool-age children (M age = 4.49, SD = .64). While controlling for baseline RSA, decreases in RSA from bird and dragon to knock-tap (but not from baseline to bird and dragon...

Modulation of Charge Trapping In article number 2208688, Xiaoguang Duan, Xi-Lin Wu, and co-workers show here the Chinese legend “Carp jumps over dragon gate”. The story is about a brave carp swimming upstream, jumping ‘dragon gate’, turning into powerful dragon. Their cover design based on this legend, where carriers one electron from g-C3N4 at bottom waterfall to single-atom Co catalyst under ...

An overtopping model specifically suited for Wave Dragon is needed in order to improve the reliability of its performance estimates. The model shall be comprehensive of all relevant physical processes that affect overtopping and flexible to adapt to any local conditions and device configuration. An experimental investigation is carried out to update an existing formulation suited for 2D draft-l...

There are now so few areas of natural environment in the world that have not been subject to biological survey or disturbance so the discovery of new species in recent expeditions to some of these regions has been proving remarkable, although large 'new' vertebrates are now increasingly rare. However, a recent analysis of material collected from lizard specimens in the northern Philippines has ...

ou have probably heard the story of St. George and the Dragon. According to legend, the Dragon caused many problems for the ancient city of Lasia, somewhere in the Middle East. Dragons are mighty, firebreathing creatures, but even in those auld times, there were brave men like St. George who slayed the Dragon, saved the city, and became a legend. In modern days we do not believe in those mythic...