In these days of war, both from the battle areas and from accidents in war industries, injuries to the eye are common. Many of these injuries are perforating in nature ; a foreign body has entered some part of the globe and may be lodged inside or outside the eyeball. In war injuries, the foreign bodies include splinters from glass, bombs, shells, handgrenades and booby-traps, whereas in indust...

It’s with great pleasure that I introduce Miguel Encarnação as the acting editor in chief of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Miguel joined the CG&A editorial board in 2002 as an associate editor, sharing responsibility with the late Carl Machover as coeditor of the New Products department. He served as a guest editor of the September/October 2003 special issue on Perceptual Multimodal ...

CAST-128 and CAST-256 are two symmetric algorithms designed by Adams in 1990s. Both of them adopt the CAST design procedure which makes them process a number of desirable cryptographic. CAST-128 is notably used as the default cipher in some versions of GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) systems. As an extension of CAST-128, CAST-256 was submitted as a candidate for the Advanc...

background: to investigate the relationship between renal stone formation and osteoporosis. methods: eight hundred thirty healthy subjects aged between 20 and 76 years were randomly selected from 50 clusters to take part in the study. of these, 68 (8.2%) had a previous history of renal stone disease. all participants underwent clinical exami nation and bone mineral densitometry of the lumbar sp...

introduction: fasting is considered as one of the most important practices of islam, and according to prophet mohammad, fasting is obligatory upon muslims. the aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of fasting on urinary stones. materials and methods:very few studies have been carried out on urinary stones and the effect of ramadan fasting. the sources of the present study are medline and...

The inhibitory domains of calpastatin contain three highly conserved regions, A, B, and C, of which A and C bind calpain in a strictly Ca(2+)-dependent manner but have no inhibitory activity whereas region B inhibits calpain on its own. We synthesized the 19-mer oligopeptides corresponding to regions A and C of human calpastatin domain I and tested their effect on human erythrocyte mu-calpain a...

This paper describes a new diierential-style attack, which we call the boomerang attack. This attack has several interesting applications. First, we disprove the oft-repeated claim that eliminating all high-probability diierentials for the whole cipher is suucient to guarantee security against diierential attacks. Second, we show how to break COCONUT98, a cipher designed using decorrelation tec...

(2) a. These blockages can grow instance by instance, cycle by cycle, stone after stone, lifetime after lifetime, until the body starts to manifest these issues as disease b. Brick upon brick, stone upon stone they grow. c. She laid book upon book and built a staircase long enough to climb up and look over the wall. d. This mystery offers puzzle within puzzle. e. The Wall of Tears is a very big...