Remotely keyed encryption (RKE) schemes provide fast symmetric encryption and decryption using a small-bandwidth security module and a powerful host. Such schemes keep the key inside the security module to prevent key compromise. Shin, Shin, and Rhee proposed a length-preserving as well as a length-increasing RKE scheme that both use only a single round of interaction between host and security ...

The values of the relative counterion (X) binding constant R(X)(Br) (=K(X)/K(Br), where K(X) and K(Br) represent cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTABr, micellar binding constants of X(v-) (in non-spherical micelles), v = 1,2, and Br(-) (in spherical micelles)) are 58, 68, 127, and 125 for X(v-) = 1(-), 1(2-), 2(-), and 2(2-), respectively. The values of 15 mM CTABr/[Na(v)X] nanoparticles-cataly...

The active component of phosphate solutions, in relation to promoter action on oxidising enzymes, is the PO(4) (''') ion. This is shown by the demonstration of a hyperbolic relationship between per cent production of CO(2) (of Elodea) and pPO(4), the measure of the phosphate ion potential. This is consistent with the rate of respiration as affected by changing pPO(4) through change of total pho...

Let X and Y be real normed linear spaces and let φ : X → R be a non-negative function satisfying φ(x+ y) ≤ φ(x) + ‖y‖ for all x, y ∈ X. We show that there exist optimal constants cm,k such that if P : X → Y is any polynomial satisfying ‖P (x)‖ ≤ φ(x)m for all x ∈ X, then ‖D̂kP (x)‖ ≤ cm,kφ(x) whenever x ∈ X and 0 ≤ k ≤ m. We obtain estimates for these constants and present applications to polyno...

Time-resolved studies of silylene, SiH, , generated by laser flash photolysis of phenylsilane, have been carried out to obtain rate constants for its bimolecular reaction with monosilane, SiH4. The reaction was studied in t he gas phase over the pressure range 1-100 Torr, with both Ar and SF, as bath gases, at six temperatures in the range 298-665 K. The reaction of SiH, with SiH, to form disil...

The molar conductivity data of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium salicylate, [BMIm][Sal] as an active pharmaceutical ingredient ionic liquid (API-IL) have been determined in water and aqueous solutions of amino acids, glycine and L-alanine at T= (288.15 to 318.15) K. The molar conductivity data were analyzed by low concentration Chemical Model (lcCM) and limiting molar conductivities ( ), ion associa...

Using the density-functional formalism we derive an expression for the distortion free energy of systems with continuous broken symmetry and use it to derive an expression for the elastic constants of smectic phases in which the director is tilted with respect to the smectic layer normal. As in the previous papers of this series [Y. Singh, S. Singh, and K. Rajesh, Phys. Rev. A 45, 974 (1992); Y...

We consider the two-dimensional Landau-de Gennes energy with several elastic constants, subject to general k-radially symmetric boundary conditions. We show that for generic elastic constants the critical points consistent with the symmetry of the boundary conditions exist only in the case k = 2. In this case we identify three types of radial profiles: with two, three of full five components an...

In recent years, ionic liquids have been used in pharmaceutical processes. Therefore, having a deep insight into the ion association behavior of ionic liquids in the presence of a drug is of particular importance. So, in this work, the molar conductivities of the ionic liquids, 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide, [CnMIm]Br (n = 4, 6 and 8) in various concentrations of aspirin (ASA) ...

Charge-transfer rate constants (kCT) are required for the design of fullerene-based solar cells. We have assessed performance six long-range corrected hybrid functionals and a meta-hybrid-GGA functional calculation kCT with Marcus equation.