The mechanical characteristics of respiratory system tissues include visco-elastic behaviour. In particular, after mechanical unloading, i.e., a reduction in respiratory system volume, the lower stress achieved slowly increases, approaching higher constant value, due to visco-elastic stress recovery. We performed experiments in which constant deflation flow arrest was applied in rats to study t...

the aim of the present study was to prepare an oral tablet from liquid yogurt by reforming the physical properties for easy transportation, long-term storage and also as a complementary dairy product in case of nutrient deficiency. the liquid fresh yogurt was lyophilized at -40°c and 0.03 mtor pressure. the dry powder was homogenized by a 12 mesh size sieve. some tests such as carr’s compressib...

Given a block cipher of length L Cook’s elastic cipher allows to encrypt messages of variable length from L to 2L. Given some conditions on the key schedule, Cook’s elastic cipher is secure against any key recovery attack if the underlying block cipher is, and it achieves complete diffusion in at most q+1 rounds if the underlying block cipher achieves it in q rounds. We extend Cook’s constructi...

We report on the microstructure and mechanical properties (elastic modulus) of concentrated depletion and thermal gels of octadecyl-coated silica particles for different values of the strength of interaction--polymer concentration for depletion gels and temperature for thermal gels. The depletion gels are composed of dense clusters and voids, while the thermal gels are devoid of clusters. Shear...

We analyze the security of elastic block ciphers against key-recovery attacks. An elastic version of a fixed-length block cipher is a variable-length block cipher that supports any block size in the range of one to two times the length of the original block. Our method for creating an elastic block cipher involves inserting the round function of the original cipher into a substitution-permutati...

We analyze the security of elastic block ciphers in general to show that an attack on an elastic version of block cipher implies a polynomial time related attack on the fixed-length version of the block cipher. We relate the security of the elastic version of a block cipher to the fixed-length version by forming a reduction between the versions. Our method is independent of the specific block c...

In the mechanics of continua the theories of two types of substances have been mainly considered, those of Hookean elastic solids and of Newtonian fluids. I t is common knowledge that there are many substances of great importance which cannot be classified under either heading. Some of these substances exhibit both elastic and viscous properties; they flow under the influence of applied stresse...