Simon and Speck are two families of ultra-lightweight block ciphers which were announced by the U.S. National Security Agency in June 2013. Yet, the specification discusses only the design and the performance of both cipher families and the task of analyzing their security has been left to the were proposed by the U.S. National Security Agency in June 2013. Yet, the specification paper discusse...

We propose a new 128-bit blockcipher CLEFIA supporting key lengths of 128, 192 and 256 bits, which is compatible with AES. CLEFIA achieves enough immunity against known attacks and flexibility for efficient implementation in both hardware and software by adopting several novel and state-of-the-art design techniques. CLEFIA achieves a good performance profile both in hardware and software. In ha...

We present robust parallel multigrid-based solvers for 3D scalar partial differential equations. The robustness is obtained by combining multiple semicoarsening strategies, matrixdependent transfer operators, and a Krylov subspace acceleration. The basis for the 3D preconditioner is a 2D method with multiple semicoarsened grids based on the MG-S method from [C. W. Oosterlee, Appl. Numer. Math.,...

A specific angiotensin II monoclonal antibody, KAA8, was used to examine the interaction between sympathetic function and angiotensin II in pithed rats. KAA8, at 5 or 50 mg/kg i.v., did not alter the mean blood pressure, cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, or heart rate responses to sympathetic neural stimulation (0.25-4.0 Hz) or to norepinephrine (0.3-3 micrograms/kg i.v.) but blocked...

Abstract Introduction Sleep disordered breathing is a significant risk factor for cardiometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. Tolerance efficacy of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), the primary form therapy sleep apnea, often poor. High loop gain (HLG) driving mechanism central apnea or periodic breathing. The current study aimed to develop computational approach detect HLG based ...

OBJECTIVE Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease due to demyelination of the central nervous system. It is believed that cytokines are involved in the pathogenesis of MS. The interleukin-2 (IL2) gene is powerful functional candidate that is involved in immune regulation and operation. In this study, for the first time, we investigated the effect of -475 A/T and -631 G/A IL2 pol...

Born-Oppenheimer approximation Hylleraas variational calculations with up to 7034 expansion terms are reported for the 1sigma(g)+ ground state of neutral hydrogen at various internuclear distances. The nonrelativistic energy is calculated to be -1.174 475 714 220(1) hartree at R = 1.4 bohr, which is four orders of magnitude better than the best previous Hylleraas calculation, that of Wolniewicz...

Introduction: Existing studies have identified the national rate of PVT for severely injured patients to be 9-16%, our ED has displayed a incidence 35.4%, suggesting substantial difference in arrival. This study aims explore descriptive demographics and injury characteristics who arrived by ED. Method: A prospective, single-center observational conducted Detroit, Michigan. Included aged 15 ≥ ye...

IgE, and atopy. Results: We measured the total serum IgE of 155 children. The number of obese and normal weight children with family history of atopic disease who had high level of total serum IgE were 30 and 25 respectively, whereas these children who had normal level of total serum IgE were 6 and 15 respectively [OR 1⁄4 1.9 (95% CI 0.9-3.9)]. On the other hand, obese and normal weight childre...