This paper presents some properties of he deterministic random bit generator ISAAC (FSE’96), contradicting several statements of its introducing article. In particular, it characterizes huge subsets of internal states which induce a strongly non-uniform distribution in the 8 192 first bits produced. A previous attack on ISAAC presented at Asiacrypt’06 by Paul and Preneel is demonstrated to be n...

Cognitive rehabilitation has the capacity to empower persons with brain-injuries and help them achieve heightened functional, personal, and social interactions within their environments. Interventions aimed at compensation for deficits and adaptation to cognitive disability can be aided through the use of assistive technology devices (ATD's). ATDs allow for their users to experience greater lev...

Like so much research, the findings from the ISAAC program have raised more questions than they have answered. Despite their limitations, the ISAAC findings provide the basis for further studies to investigate factors that potentially contribute to these international patterns and may lead to novel public health and pharmacologic intervention strategies that reduce the prevalence and severity o...

The Hindu and Buddhist concepts of karma are quite similar, although Hinduism makes a further distinction between different types of karma, such as present karma, latent karma, and future karma. In the understanding of both thought systems, the law of karma describes the connection between actions and the resulting forces, as follows: wholesome actions lead to wholesome states while unwholesome...

Isaac Levi's philosophical thinking has shown remarkable stability over the years. Basically, it all started with his first book, Gambling with Truth, which outlines a research program whose key element is the decision theoretic reconstruction of epistemology. Much of the rest of his work in epistemology has been devoted to extending and implementing this original program. With one important ex...