MISTY and the Design Intent Behind it MISTY is the family name for two 64-bit blockcipher algorithms, MISTY1 and MISTY2, that have 128-bit keys, designed by the corporation with detailed specifications announced in academic conferences in 1996 and 1997.[1] [2] In terms of security, MISTY has the major benefit of “provable security,” in which the security is proven mathematically against differe...

This position paper addresses the question whether existing frameworks for single user application development can generally be used on top of an OOGP as they are. The paper negates this question by using the example of synchronous document-based groupware (SDBG). Some SDBG-specific requirements for a groupware platform architecture are postulated and it is shown how these requirements conflict...

Advance image classification system focuses on synthetic (e.g non-photographic) & Natural (e.g photographic) images. The classification of images based on semantic description is a challenging and important problem in automatic image identification. An algorithm for natural and synthetic image classification has been developed. Some features are extracted from the raw images data in order to ex...

To control a production-inventory system, a manager has to consider the variability in demand as well as variability in her production process. Both types of variability corrupt system performance and by alleviating either of them, the manager can improve the performance of the system. There has been a recent trend towards investing in better information systems to provide better advance demand...

1 Persons with serious mental illness suffer from increased rates of comorbidity and die, on average, 25 years earlier than persons in the general population (1). Such morbidity has prompted searches for remedies, which have focused both on patients’ lifestyle (for example, smoking) and clinical practice (for example, physician-directed action). According to one recent study, compared with pati...

20 Isoflurane is a representative inhalant anesthesia used in laboratory animals. 21 However, isoflurane mediates respiratory depression and adverse clinical reactions 22 during induction. In the present study, we established a novel balanced anesthesia 23 method in mice that combined isoflurane anesthesia with midazolam and butorphanol 24 (MB). 25 Thirty-four male C57BL/6J mice received either...

The AdVance sling (American Medical Systems, Minnetonka, MN, United States of America) is a synthetic transobturator sling, which is a safe and effective minimally invasive treatment for mild to moderate stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in male patients. This article provides a step-by-step description of our technique for placement of the AdVance male sling, including details and nuances gain...

We present evidence that advance information reducing the number of stimulus-response alternatives in a choice reaction time (RT) task can shorten the very latest motoric stages of RT. Effects of such advance information on late stages of RT have been demonstrated recently by Osman, Moore, and Ulrich (Acta Psychol. 90 (1995) 111), Leuthold, Sommer, and Ulrich (J. Exp. Psychol: Gen. 125 (1996) 3...