In 2002, Moldovyan and Moldovyan introduced a cipher with security based mainly on data-dependent permutations (DDPs) called CIKS–1[1]. The goal of the cipher was to exploit the speed and simplicity of DDPs to create a fast hardware-oriented block cipher. This paper examines the properties of DDPs. In particular, it is noted that these structures do not change the Hamming weight of the data. Us...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are typically viewed as lean individuals. However, recent reports showed that their obesity rate surpassed that of the general population. Patients with T1D who show clinical signs of type 2 diabetes such as obesity and insulin resistance are considered to have "double diabetes." This review explains the mechanisms of weight gain in patients...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the association of weight control behaviors (WCBs) with living and educational situations among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes during the first year after high school graduation. METHODS Among 184 emerging adults with type 1 diabetes, data were collected every 3 months for 12 months on WCBs, body mass index (BMI), living and educational s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the short- and long-term effectiveness and the predictors of weight loss in a mobile phone weight-loss programme among healthy overweight adults. DESIGN One hundred and twenty-five healthy, overweight (BMI = 26-36 kg/m2), 25-44-year-old, screened volunteers were randomized to an experimental group (n 62) to use a mobile phone-operated weight-loss programme or to a con...

This paper reports on a set of experiments using a new highly mobile rover prototype that was tested under lunar-like operational conditions (i.e., time-delay and reduced communications bandwidth) in the lava fields of the Mojave desert near Amboy, CA. In addition to describing the mobility system we will describe some results from the field test and observations about the link between mobility...

We develop a new computer assisted technique for lower bounding the minimum distance of linear codes similar to those used in SHA-1 message expansion. Using this technique, we prove that a modified SHA-1 like code has minimum distance at least 82, and that too in just the last 64 of the 80 expanded words. Further the minimum weight in the last 60 words (last 48 words) is at least 75 (52 respect...

The new binuclear phenoxyiminato zirconium complex {1,7-(O)2C10H4-2,7-[CH=N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)]2}Zr2Cl6(THF)2 (FI2-Zr2) polymerizes ethylene with greater activity (approximately 8x) than the mononuclear analogue. Also, this catalyst produces high molecular weight ethylene + 1-hexene copolymers, while the mononuclear analogue yields only traces of copolymer under identical conditions. This ability to...