Chronic stress has been widely reported to have deleterious impact in multiple biological systems. Specifically, structural and functional remodeling of several brain regions following prolonged stress exposure have been described; importantly, some of these changes are eventually reversible. Recently, we showed the impact of stress on resting state networks (RSNs), but nothing is known about t...

After cerebral ischemia, disruption and subsequent reorganization of functional connections occur both locally and remote to the lesion. However, the unpredictable timing and extent of sensorimotor recovery reflects a gap in understanding of these underlying neural mechanisms. We aimed to identify the plasticity of alpha-band functional neural connections within the perilesional area and the pr...

We describe a state recovery attack on the X-FCSR-256 stream cipher of total complexity at most 2. This complexity is achievable by requiring 2 output blocks with an amortized calculation e ort of at most 2 table lookups per output block using no more than 2 table entries of precomputational storage.

We present studies of the photoexcited quasiparticle dynamics in MgB2 where, using femtosecond optical techniques, Cooper pair-breaking dynamics (PBD) have been temporally resolved for the first time. The PBD are strongly temperature and photoexcitation intensity dependent. Analysis of the PBD using the Rothwarf-Taylor equations suggests that the anomalous PBD arises from the fact that in MgB2 ...

The effects of greenhouse gases (GHG) on the growth of global warming, and increase of GHG and air pollutant emissions for energy production have forced the need of energy recovery which is normally wasted in industrial plant. The present research work focused on the GHG and air pollutant emissions reduction employing pressure waste energy recovery. Pressure break-down via Joule-Thomson valve i...

The U.S. Government Protection Profile for Separation Kernels in Environments Requiring High Robustness (SKPP) is undergoing evaluation. During its authoring process, new extended functional and assurance requirements were introduced to resolve assurance issues associated with TOE hardware, trusted initialization and trusted recovery. For high robustness, domain separation and self-protection a...

Nielsen’s theorem indicates that a bipartite entangled pure state can be exactly converted into another pure one by local quantum operations and classical communication if and only if the Schmidt coefficient vector of the former is majorized by that of the latter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 436 (1999)]. As a consequence of Nielsen’s majorization criterion, the quantity of entanglement is decreased du...