AES and Future Resiliency: More Thoughts and Questions

Future Resiliency: a Possible New Aes Evaluation Criterion

As announced by NIST, AES candidates will be evaluated on the criteria of security, cost (including performance and code size), and implementation characteristics such as flexibility and simplicity. This paper introduces the new term of “future resiliency” and proposes that NIST strive to ensure that the initial culling of the fifteen initial AES candidates to “about five” second round finalist...

Future resiliency: a possible new AES criterion

Developing Earthquake Resiliency Scenarios based on Rural-Urban Linkages (Case Study: Shemiranat, Damavand and Firouzkoh)

Linkages in geographical spaces representing a region is not just a functional system which has been formed by various settlements. It rather takes its power from social, economic and physical networks and their interactions which means it is controlled by aforementioned networks. Therefore, there are always rural area and urban area with some relations or linkages. In this regard, relation mos...

Environmental Assessment for Sustainability and Resiliency for Ecological and Human Health.

Considerable attention has been devoted to environmental assessment and monitoring, primarily by physical and biological scientists, and more recently by social scientists. However, population growth and global change have resulted in an imperative to assess the resiliency of the environment to adapt to large scale changes and to continue to produce goods and services for future generations (su...

The spiritual assessment.

More than 80 percent of Americans perceive religion as important. Issues of belief can affect the health care encounter, and patients may wish to discuss spirituality with their physician. Many physicians report barriers to broaching the subject of spirituality, including lack of time and experience, difficulty identifying patients who want to discuss spirituality, and the belief that addressin...