Pattern recognition essentially deals with the training and classification of patterns, where the distribution of the features is assumed unknown. However, in almost all the reported results, a fundamental assumption made is that this distribution, although unknown, is stationary. In this paper, we shall relax this assumption and assume that the class-conditional distribution is non-stationary....

We consider two RMACs. One is RMAC defined in NIST’s draft [5], which we write RMAC1, with parameter set IV or V, where AES is used as the underlying block cipher, and uses a nonce R. The other one is RMAC mode 2 stated in NIST’s consultation paper [6], which we write RMAC2, where AES128 is used to compute the CBC MAC tag, AES256 is used to encrypt it, and uses a nonce R. We write RMAC to mean ...

Emergency Departments (EDs) in Toronto, Canada Po-Po Lam, MSc; Karen Green, MSc; Brenda L. Coleman, PhD; Jeff Powis, MD, MSc, FRCPC; David Richardson, MD; Kevin Katz, MD CM, MSc; Bjug Borgundvaag, MD; Telisha Smith-Gorvie, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Jeffrey C. Kwong, MD; Susan Bondy, PhD; Allison Mcgeer, MD, FRCPC; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Mount Sinai...

As we put 2017 behind us, I am dedicating this editorial to the celebration of Canada’s 150 birthday. I was fortunate to be in Ottawa for the month of August where I took in several Canada 150 events and displays, the most memorable and inspiring being MosaïCanada in Gatineau (created by the world famous Mosaïcultures internationales de Montréal http://english.mosaicanada.ca/). So impressed and...

the perception of physician shortage in canada is widespread. absolute shortages and relative discrepancies, both specialty-wise and in urban-rural distribution, have been a daunting policy challenge. international medical graduates (imgs) have been at the core of mitigating this problem, especially as long as shortage of physicians in rural areas is concerned. considering such recruitment as h...

1190. Relationship Between Enteropathogen and Acute Gastroenteritis Disease Severity: A Prospective Cohort Study Stephen Freedman, MDCM, MSc; Jianling Xie, MD, MPH; Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, PhD, PStat; Bonita Lee, MD MSc (Epi); Linda Chui, MD; Xiao-Li Pang, PhD; Ran Zhuo, PhD; Brendon Parsons, PhD; Otto G. Vanderkooi, MD; Phillip Tarr, MD, FIDSA; Samina Ali, MDCM; James A. Dickinson, MBBS, PhD; ...

The security of interchanged use of modes of operation of block ciphers have not been discussed in the public literature. So far, the modes of operation of block ciphers have been treated as completely independent and uncorrelated. In this paper we represent both CBC and OFB as quasigroup string transformations, and then show that OFB mode is a special case of the CBC mode of operation. That ra...

The abbreviations section includes a strange mixture of terms that are in everyday use and often bizarre entries (for instance, CRTAP [cartilage associated protein] and DAD [doctor assisted suicide]), which admittedly may represent commonly used terms in the authors’ local areas. There are duplications and ‘Americanisms’ (for instance, CBC [complete blood count] and FBC [full blood count]), whi...

Purpose: Description of the project ProSeBiCA, carried out in order to adapt the marketing research tool Conjoint Analysis for the development of future library services. The paper describes the methodical approach, and provides an overview of the results gained by several user surveys. Design/methodology/approach: The methodical approach includes the use of Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA) and...