Modern practice in perinatology involves a significant portion of invasive procedures. Training in fetal diagnostic procedures is generally accomplished using in vitro model. Fetal therapeutic procedures require a more sophisticated skill. Fetoscopic intervention is most commonly performed for laser dichorionization of the placental in twin-twin transfusion syndrome. A co-ordination between ult...

In this paper we present a new representation of the AES key schedule, with some implications to security AES-based schemes. particular, show that AES-128 schedule can be split into four independent parallel computations operating on 32 bits chunks, up linear transformation. Surprisingly, property has not been described in literature after more than 20 years analysis AES. We two consequences ou...

One of the topics of the EUREKA project PROTOS (Prolog Tools for Building Expert Systems) [Appelrath 87] is the development of a Prolog-based system that exploits heuristic knowledge for a concrete scheduling application from the chemical industry. The term scheduling designates the problem of chronological allocation of a given set of production orders to the apparatuses available taking into ...

Introduction In 2000, when Bocconi University launched its Master in Quantitative Finance, I was asked to develop a course touching upon the many aspects of decision theory, financial economics, and microstructure that could not otherwise fit in the tight schedule of the program. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the course was dubbed " Topics in Economics " and I was given a fair amount of leeway...

Robotic systems for master-slave teleoperation with haptic feedback capability have been used in diverse areas such as surgical simulation and telerehabilitation. Such systems have not yet been used by children with disabilities who can potentially control the master human-machine interface to sense and manipulate objects using the slave robot. This paper presents a comparison of candidate robo...

1250 June 2013 W ORLD-WIDE, several hundred million operations are performed each year. A substantial fraction require blood transfusion, often with little forewarning. Because crossmatching and antibody screening takes time, it is conventional to either typeand-screen or crossmatch blood for patients likely to require transfusion. The clinical challenge is to predict who will require transfusi...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) constrains instrument motions to 4 DOF by precluding lateral motion at the incision. Robotic MIS systems can interpose arbitrary mappings between the surgeon’s motions at the master controller and the motions of instrument tips within the patient’s body. Our goal was to find the interface that was easiest to learn. We investigated the effects of different coordi...