cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multiplicative Masking for AES in Hardware
Creators: name: De Meyer, Lauren
name: Reparaz, Oscar
name: Bilgin, Begül
Publisher: name: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Year: 2018

description: Hardware masked AES designs usually rely on Boolean masking and perform the computation of the S-box using the tower-field decomposition. On the other hand, splitting sensitive variables in a multiplicative way is more amenable for the computation of the AES S-box, as noted by Akkar and Giraud. However, multiplicative masking needs to be implemented carefully not to be vulnerable to first-order DPA with a zero-value power model. Up to now, sound higher-order multiplicative masking schemes have been implemented only in software. In this work, we demonstrate the first hardware implementation of AES using multiplicative masks. The method is tailored to be secure even if the underlying gates are not ideal and glitches occur in the circuit. We detail the design process of first- and second-order secure AES-128 cores, which result in the smallest die area to date among previous state-of-the-art masked AES implementations with comparable randomness cost and latency. The first- and second-order masked implementations improve resp. 29% and 18% over these designs. We deploy our construction on a Spartan-6 FPGA and perform a side-channel evaluation. No leakage is detected with up to 50 million traces for both our first- and second-order implementation. For the latter, this holds both for univariate and bivariate analysis.
description: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 3
FACE: Fast AES CTR mode Encryption Techniques based on the Reuse of Repetitive Data
Creators: name: Park, Jin Hyung
name: Lee, Dong Hoon
Publisher: name: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Year: 2018

description: The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and Counter (CTR) mode are used for numerous services as an encryption technique that provides confidentiality. Even though the AES with counter (AES CTR) mode has an advantage in that it can process multiple data blocks in parallel, its implementation should also be observed to reduce the computational burden of current services.
In this paper, we propose an implementation method called FACE that can improve the performance of the AES CTR mode. The proposed method is based on five caches of frequently occurring intermediate values, so that it reduces the number of unnecessary computations. Our method can be employed in any AES CTR implementation, regardless of the platform, environment, or implementation method. There are two known AES implementation techniques, namely, counter-mode caching and bitslicing. FACE extends counter-mode caching in order to optimize the previous result and to maximize the scope of caching. We show that FACE can be applied efficiently to various implementations (table-based, bitsliced, and AES-NI-based). In particular, this is the first attempt to combine our extended counter-mode caching with bitsliced implementations of AES, and is also the first to apply counter-mode caching up to the round transformations of AES-NI implementation. To prove the efficiency of our proposed method, we conduct a performance evaluation in various environments, which we then compare with the previous fastest results. Our bitsliced FACE needs 6.41 cycles/byte on an Intel Core 2, and AES-NI-based FACE records 0.44 cycles/byte on an Intel Core i7.
description: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 3
Impacts of seasonality on gene expression in the Chinese Horseshoe Bat
Creators: name: Chen, Wenli
name: Mao, Xiuguang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Seasonality can cause changes in many environmental factors which potentially affects gene expression. Here, we used a bat species (Rhinolophus sinicus) from eastern China as a model to explore the molecular mechanisms of seasonal effects, in particular during phenological shifts in the spring and autumn. Based on the analysis of 45 RNA-seq samples, we found strong seasonal effects on gene expression, with a large number of genes identified as either specific or biased to each season. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis also identified multiple modules significantly associated with each season. These seasonal genes were further enriched into different functional categories. Consistent with effects of phenological shifts on bats, we found that genes related to promoting food intake were highly expressed in both autumn and spring. In addition, immunity genes were also highly expressed in both seasons although this seasonal immune response had tissue specificity in different seasons. In female bats, genes related to the delay of ovulation (e.g. NPPC, natriuretic peptide precursor type C) were highly expressed in October, while genes associated with the promotion of reproduction (e.g. DIO2, iodothyronine deiodinase 2) were biasedly expressed in April. Lastly, we found multiple known core clock genes in both October-biased and April-biased expressed genes, which may be involved in regulating the start and end of hibernation, respectively. Overall, together with studies in other land and aquatic animals, our work supports that seasonal gene expression variations may be a general evolutionary response to environmental changes in wild animals.
description: Funding provided by: The Scientific and Technological Innovation Plan of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee*
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sj-pdf-4-pam-10.1177_27536386231215608 - Supplemental material for Development of an international prehospital CPR-induced consciousness guideline: A Delphi study
Creators: name: Howard, Jack
name: Grusd, Eystein
name: Rice, Don
name: Nudell, Nikiah G.
name: Lipscombe, Carlos
name: Shepherd, Matthew
name: Olaussen, Alexander
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Emergency Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-pam-10.1177_27536386231215608 for Development of an international prehospital CPR-induced consciousness guideline: A Delphi study by Jack Howard, Eystein Grusd, Don Rice, Nikiah G. Nudell, Carlos Lipscombe, Matthew Shepherd and Alexander Olaussen in Paramedicine
Mid-term Report on Dissemination, outreach, community building and standardisation
Creators: name: University of Thessaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The objective of this document is to present and report on the activities in the field of dissemination,

outreach, community building and standardisation in the course of SLICES-SC in respect to the strategy

defined in D6.1. The deliverable offers a brief summary of the dissemination strategy of SLICES-SC and

provides a mid-term update on the achievements and the progress made by M18. It provides an

update on the KPIs, elaborates on the different dissemination channels and the various

communication materials used for the promotion of the project. Furthermore, the deliverable also

presents past events organised by SLICES-SC and third parties as well as the publications created

within the scope of the project. Last, D6.2 also covers efforts made towards standardisation and briefly

elaborates on relevant topics, standard developing organisations, partners and timeframes to

accomplish the standardisation task.
Side-Channel Attacks on Post-Quantum Signature Schemes based on Multivariate Quadratic Equations
Creators: name: Park, Aesun
name: Shim, Kyung-Ah
name: Koo, Namhun
name: Han, Dong-Guk
Publisher: name: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Year: 2018

description: In this paper, we investigate the security of Rainbow and Unbalanced Oil-and-Vinegar (UOV) signature schemes based on multivariate quadratic equations, which is one of the most promising alternatives for post-quantum signature schemes, against side-channel attacks. We describe correlation power analysis (CPA) on the schemes that yield full secret key recoveries. First, we identify a secret leakage of secret affine maps S and T during matrix-vector products in signing when Rainbow is implemented with equivalent keys rather than random affine maps for optimal implementations. In this case, the simple structure of the equivalent keys leads to the retrieval of the entire secret affine map T. Next, we extend the full secret key recovery to the general case using random affine maps via a hybrid attack: after recovering S by performing CPA, we recover T by mounting algebraic key recovery attacks. We demonstrate how this leakage on Rainbow can be practically exploited on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller using CPA. Consequently, our CPA can be applied to Rainbow-like multi-layered schemes regardless of the use of the simple-structured equivalent keys and UOV-like single layer schemes with the implementations using the equivalent keys of the simple structure. This is the first result on the security of multivariate quadratic equations-based signature schemes using only CPA. Our result can be applied to Rainbow-like multi-layered schemes and UOV-like single layer schemes submitted to NIST for Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization.
description: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 3
Additional file 1 of Comparing coronary artery cross-sectional area among asymptomatic South Asian, White, and Black participants: the MASALA and CARDIA studies
Creators: name: Short, R. T.
name: Lin, F.
name: Nair, S.
name: Terry, J. G.
name: Carr, J. J.
name: Kandula, N. R.
name: Lloyd-Jones, D.
name: Kanaya, A. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
sj-docx-3-dhj-10.1177_20552076231211118 - Supplemental material for Co-design of a theory-based implementation plan for a holistic eHealth assessment and decision support framework for people with dementia in care homes
Creators: name: Gillam, Juliet
name: Evans, Catherine
name: Aworinde, Jesutofunmi
name: Ellis-Smith, Clare
name: Ross, Jamie
name: Davies, Nathan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Organisation and Management Theory
subject: Science Policy
subject: Social Policy
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-dhj-10.1177_20552076231211118 for Co-design of a theory-based implementation plan for a holistic eHealth assessment and decision support framework for people with dementia in care homes by Juliet Gillam, Catherine Evans, Jesutofunmi Aworinde, Clare Ellis-Smith, Jamie Ross and Nathan Davies in DIGITAL HEALTH
title: Kinder im Fokus von Lebensmittelfernsehwerbung
Creators: name: Zehetmayer, Katharina
Year: 2009

description: Das Thema dieser Magisterarbeit lautet „Kinder im Fokus von Lebensmittelfernsehwerbung“. Im theoretischen Teil wurde dem Vorwurf nachgegangen, wonach ungesunde Lebensmittel, die im Fernsehen beworben werden, die Gesundheit von Kindern negativ beeinflussen. Die Analyse dieser Problemstellung erfolgte anhand der Darstellung verschiedener, aktueller Studienergebnisse. Nur sehr wenige dieser Untersuchungen können einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Fernsehnutzungsdauer bzw. der Fernsehinhalte und kindlichem Übergewicht nachweisen. Der Bereich „Kinder, Werbung und Ernährung“ ist sehr komplex, da Übergewicht viele Ursachen haben kann. Fernsehwerbung gilt somit lediglich als ein Faktor von vielen, der zu kindlichem Übergewicht führen kann. Um Erkenntnisse über die in der Werbung präsentierten Produkte zu erlangen, wurde im empirischen Teil dieser Magisterarbeit die Produktkategorie Lebensmittel anhand einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse empirisch untersucht. Dabei wurde u.a. erhoben, wie häufig und in welchem Umfeld Lebensmittelwerbung erfolgt. Außerdem wurde ermittelt, ob bzw. welche Produkte sich als gesund positionieren. Darüber hinaus wurde untersucht, welche Strategien die Werbetreibenden verwenden, um Kinder direkt anzusprechen sowie welche Vorzüge der beworbenen Lebensmittel besonders hervorgehoben werden. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass sich keine gesundheitsbezogenen Aussagen explizit an Kinder richteten. Einige der in den Werbespots vermittelten Gratifikationen versprachen zwar der Zielgruppe Kinder häufig, dass der Konsum des Produkts Mut zu Abenteuern verschafft sowie dass das beworbene Lebensmittel zu neuer Kraft und Schnelligkeit verhilft. Großteils standen aber „Andere Erwachsene“ und „Die ganze Familie“ im Fokus von Werbung. Darüber hinaus wird aus dem empirischen Teil dieser Arbeit ersichtlich, dass Kinder im Untersuchungszeitraum nicht allzu oft als Darsteller in Werbespots eingesetzt werden. Dies kann allerdings auch an den gewählten Zugriffskriterien liegen. Wenn Kinder jedoch eine darstellende Funktion einnehmen, bewerben sie übermäßig oft Produkte aus dem Bereich Süßwaren, welche sich teilweise auch als gesund positionieren. Dieser Umstand ist natürlich bedenklich, er nimmt jedoch insgesamt nur einen relativ kleinen Teil am gesamten Untersuchungsmaterial ein.
Final report on Dissemination, outreach, community building and standardisation
Creators: name: University of Thessaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The objective of this document is to present and report on the activities in the field of dissemination,

outreach, community building and standardisation in the course of SLICES-SC in respect to the strategy

defined in D6.1. The deliverable offers a brief summary of the dissemination strategy of SLICES-SC and

provides a final update on the achievements and the progress made by the end of the project. It

provides an update on the KPIs, elaborates on the different dissemination channels and the various

communication materials used for the promotion of the project. Furthermore, the deliverable also

presents past events organised by SLICES-SC and third parties as well as the publications created

within the scope of the project. Last, D6.3 also covers efforts made towards standardisation and briefly

elaborates on relevant topics, standard developing organisations, partners and timeframes to

accomplish the standardisation task.
Performance evaluation of incremental Sigma-Delta ADCs based on their NTF
Creators: name: Wagner, Johannes
name: Vogelmann, Patrick
name: Ortmanns, Maurits
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Incremental
subject: Sigma-Delta
subject: Delta-Sigma
subject: noise transfer function
subject: reconstruction filter
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Time-domain analysis
subject: Reconstruction

description: In this brief the performance of I-SD ADCs based on the spectral description is discussed. It is based on the modulator and the reconstruction filter and accounts for the applied reset. The definition of the overall noise transfer function (NTF) enables the analysis of the performance of I-SD ADCs in frequency domain and consequently makes it possible to explain the inherent behavior of this type of ADC including reconstruction filter and non-idealities. In the state of the art, the performance of an I-SD ADC is either obtained by simulations or predicted via time-domain considerations. However, these simulations can become time consuming and time-domain considerations neglect non-idealities, especially in the case of a CT modulator. Only recently, a general way to describe the NTF of DT and CT I-SD ADCs was introduced. This brief gives a detailed analysis of the NTF of I-SD ADCs and the impact of its properties on the resulting SQNR. It discusses the influence of common reconstruction filters and based on this analysis, it introduces as an example a modified CoI filter that allows to improve the ADC’s performance.
Additional file 2 of Comparing coronary artery cross-sectional area among asymptomatic South Asian, White, and Black participants: the MASALA and CARDIA studies
Creators: name: Short, R. T.
name: Lin, F.
name: Nair, S.
name: Terry, J. G.
name: Carr, J. J.
name: Kandula, N. R.
name: Lloyd-Jones, D.
name: Kanaya, A. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Report of educational outreach
Creators: name: University of Thessaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This deliverable reports on the outreach of the educations activities of SLICES including the SLICES

Academy, the Networking Channel, the SLICES Hackathons, the SLICES Workshops and the SLICES

Summer Schools that organised within the whole duration of the project. The outreach of the

educational activities was organised in collaboration with communications activities that they have

always been kept under control, monitored, and refitted according to the needs of the project, and

the objective results are encouraging. These activities have been constantly monitored to ensure the

correct outreach actions are in place and producing results as presented in this deliverable. In the final

year of the project, the SLICES Academy entered the mature phase with its online publication, which

will be continued its development and enhancement through the SLICES-PP and other new initiatives.

In addition, the Networking Channel, the SLICES Hackathons, the SLICES Summer schools will be

sustained through collaboration and other initiatives.
title: Unternehmensverantwortung in Brasilien und Österreich
Creators: name: Hollinger, Nina
Year: 2009

description: Der erste Teil der Diplomarbeit „Unternehmensverantwortung in Brasilien und Österreich“ befasst sich mit zentralen Definitionsmerkmalen der Konzepte Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und Philanthropie aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik. Die Abgrenzung dieser beiden Konzepte erfolgt in Hinblick auf den Wirkungsbereich und Verpflichtungsgrad. Erstens werden CSR-Aktivitäten in die Geschäftstätigkeit integriert wohingegen philanthropische Aktivitäten losgelöst davon umgesetzt werden. Zweitens gehen Unternehmen mit dem CSR-Konzept eine größere Verpflichtung ein, als mit philanthropischen Aktivitäten. Ein weiterer Fokus dieser Arbeit ist die praktische Umsetzung von Unternehmensverantwortung in Österreich und Brasilien. Aufgrund von differenten Forderungen seitens der Stakeholder und der unterschiedlichen sozialen Strukturen der beiden Untersuchungsländer, herrschen konträre Paradigmen der Unternehmensverantwortung. In Brasilien sind philanthropische Aktivitäten die Reaktion auf soziale Missstände im eigenen Land und dominieren die Praxis der Unternehmensverantwortung. In Österreich dient Unternehmensverantwortung zentral der Konfliktvermeidung und dem Risikomanagement. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit ist der Ursprung des Diskurses und aktuelle Diskussionspunkte über das Thema CSR in beiden Untersuchungsländern. Aktuelle Themen sind der freiwillige Charakter von CSR und die mangelnde Abgrenzung zu philanthropischen Aktivitäten. An dem Diskurs über das Konzept CSR nehmen wirtschaftliche und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure teil. Wirtschaftsakteure besitzen die Themenvorherrschaft im CSR-Diskurs. Für die empirische Untersuchung wurden die beiden CSR-Initiativen respACT und Instituto ETHOS, die von Wirtschaftsakteuren gegründet wurden, herangezogen. Die quantitative Inhaltsanalyse soll darüber Aufschluss geben, wie die beiden CSR-Initiativen mit dem Thema CSR in Hinblick auf die mangelnde Abgrenzung zu philanthropischen Aktivitäten, umgehen. Die von den Mitgliedsunternehmen in der Online-Praxisdatenbanken der Initiativen präsentierten Aktivitäten der Unternehmensverantwortung sind Gegenstand der quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse. Im ersten Schritt der Analyse wird ermittelt, wieviele der veröffentlichten Aktivitäten den Konzepten CSR und Philanthropie zuzuordnen sind. Der zweite Schritt der Analyse zeigt, welche Art der philanthropischen Aktivität umgesetzt wurden.
SLICES-SC initial portal for accessing the RI
Creators: name: Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this deliverable, we described the initial version of the portal (online at https://portal.slices-sc.eu)

to access the SLICES-SC infrastructure. We listed the requirements we used to develop the portal and

gave a detailed portal walkthrough. The portal also supports OAuth (where the portal acts as an

identity provider), so it’s easy to integrate with web-based user interfaces to infrastructures. Finally,

we also briefly touched about all APIs available in the portal. At this initial stage, those are based on

earlier work in GENI and Fed4FIRE.
Additional file 1 of XX sex chromosome complement modulates immune responses to heat-killed Streptococcus pneumoniae immunization in a microbiome-dependent manner
Creators: name: Amato-Menker, Carly J.
name: Hopen, Quinn
name: Pettit, Andrea
name: Gandhi, Jasleen
name: Hu, Gangqing
name: Schafer, Rosana
name: Franko, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Four Core Genotype breeding strategy and offspring genotypes.
title: Gamers connected
Creators: name: Glock, Hanns Peter
Year: 2009

description: Onlinefähige Computerspiele sind seit über einem Jahrzehnt im Fokus vieler WissenschaftlerInnen; mittlerweile haben sich jedoch auch die Spielkonsolen als Online-Plattformen etabliert. Alle aktuellen Konsolen verfügen über die Möglichkeit, Spiele via Internet gemeinsam mit bekannten oder unbekannten Spielenden zu erleben, wobei die Konsolen-Hersteller Microsoft, Nintendo und Sony dafür unterschiedliche Online-Konzepte offerieren. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt zuerst einen theoretischen Abriss über computervermittelte Kommunikation (Computer Mediated Communication – kurz CMC) und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Spielerlebnis sowie die Bindung zwischen den Spielenden und die daraus resultierenden Netzwerke, welcher anschließend in Kontext zu den Spielsystemen PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 und Wii gesetzt wird. Auf dieser theoretischen Basis werden zwei Hypothesen anhand einer Online-Befragung (n=259) überprüft, wonach unterschiedliche Spielsysteme unterschiedliche Beziehungs- und Kommunikationsstrukturen entstehen lassen, welche wiederum Einfluss auf die Spieldauer haben. Diese Hypothesen haben sich für die untersuchte Stichprobe bestätigt, für eine Generalisierung sind aber weitere Forschungen unumgänglich.
description: Computer games with online capabilities have been the topic of the work of many scientists for over a decade; by now, however, also gaming consoles have been established as renowned online platforms. All current systems feature possibilities to play games with other known or unknown players using an internet connection, though the three gaming console manufacturers, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, offer different online concepts. The following paper will first give a theoretical approach to Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and its influence on the gaming experience as well as the relation between the players and the hence evolving networks and then further bring this theory into practical context on the example of the gaming systems Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. Based on this theory also two hypotheses have been verified by the means of an online survey (n=259) according to which different gaming systems create different relation and communication structures which, on the other hand, have influence on the gaming duration. These hypotheses have been proven correct for the observed sample, however, for general prove further studies would be indispensable.
Low Randomness Masking and Shuffling: An Evaluation Using Mutual Information
Creators: name: Papagiannopoulos, Kostas
Publisher: name: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Year: 2018

description: Side-channel countermeasure designers often face severe performance overheads when trying to protect a device. Widely applied countermeasures such as masking and shuffling entail generating a large amount of random numbers, which can result in a computational bottleneck. To mitigate the randomness cost, this work evaluates low-randomness versions of both masking and shuffling, namely Recycled Randomness Masking (RRM) and Reduced Randomness Shuffling (RRS). These countermeasures employ memory units to store generated random numbers and reuse them in subsequent computations,making them primarily suitable for implementation on devices with sufficient memory. Both RRM and RRS are evaluated using the MI-based framework in the context of horizontal attacks. The evaluation exhibits the tradeoff between the randomness cost and the noisy leakage security level offered by the countermeasures, enabling the designer to fine-tune a masking or shuffling scheme and maximize the security level achieved for a certain cost.
description: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 3
Additional file 2 of XX sex chromosome complement modulates immune responses to heat-killed Streptococcus pneumoniae immunization in a microbiome-dependent manner
Creators: name: Amato-Menker, Carly J.
name: Hopen, Quinn
name: Pettit, Andrea
name: Gandhi, Jasleen
name: Hu, Gangqing
name: Schafer, Rosana
name: Franko, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Experimental design of experiments evaluating whether the gut microbiota contributes to XX-dependent immune enhancement following HKSP immunization.
Key Extraction Using Thermal Laser Stimulation
Creators: name: Lohrke, Heiko
name: Tajik, Shahin
name: Krachenfels, Thilo
name: Boit, Christian
name: Seifert, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Year: 2018

description: Thermal laser stimulation (TLS) is a failure analysis technique, which can be deployed by an adversary to localize and read out stored secrets in the SRAM of a chip. To this date, a few proof-of-concept experiments based on TLS or similar approaches have been reported in the literature, which do not reflect a real attack scenario. Therefore, it is still questionable whether this attack technique is applicable to modern ICs equipped with side-channel countermeasures. The primary aim of this work is to assess the feasibility of launching a TLS attack against a device with robust security features. To this end, we select a modern FPGA, and more specifically, its key memory, the so-called battery-backed SRAM (BBRAM), as a target. We demonstrate that an attacker is able to extract the stored 256-bit AES key used for the decryption of the FPGA’s bitstream, by conducting just a single non-invasive measurement. Moreover, it becomes evident that conventional countermeasures are incapable of preventing our attack since the FPGA is turned off during key recovery. Based on our time measurements, the required effort to develop the attack is shown to be less than 7 hours. To avert this powerful attack, we propose a low-cost and CMOS compatible countermeasure circuit, which is capable of protecting the BBRAM from TLS attempts even when the FPGA is powered off. Using a proof-of-concept prototype of our countermeasure, we demonstrate its effectiveness against TLS key extraction attempts.
description: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 3
Gender equality and hiring process in oil mining companies: A case of Lokichar in Turkana, Kenya
Creators: name: Shikuku, Caroline
name: Mburugu, Prof. Edward
name: Kabiru, Dr. Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gender mainstreaming
Gender equality
Gender roles

description: This paper centers on the findings of a study done by the authors of this paper in 2019 titled Change in Gender Roles as a Factor in Gender Participation and Empowerment in the Oil Mining Industry: A Case of Lokichar, Kenya. One of the objectives; determining whether the oil mining companies promotes gender equity in Lokichar is explored. The null hypothesis testing on whether there is no relationship between equal hiring and equal opportunity for men and women to work in mining activities is discussed. The data was collected from a sample of three hundred (300) respondents selected through systematic random and purposive sampling methods. The studies target group was the active labour force aged between 15 to 64 years. Those who retired from work were also targeted. Two levels of analysis were adopted: Univariate and Bivariate. Chi-square was used to test the hypotheses. Major finding indicates that there is a relationship between equal hiring and equal opportunity for men and women to work in mining activities. The paper recommends that issues like compensation, decision making, royalty sharing, power relations are well spelt in policies like the Mining Bill (2014) to ensure gender mainstreaming and no ambiguity in interpretation.
description: I have uploaded them in excel format. There are cases of missing values since some repondents declined to answer some questions. I have also included an analysis of one of the hypothesis.
description: Two levels of analysis were adopted: Univariate and Bivariate. Tabulation and charts were presented to show a comparison between the various categories. At univariate level one variable at a time was analysed to give out characteristic of the variable under study. At Bivariate level, two variables are analysed (denoted as X, Y) to assess the empirical relationship between them (Singleton et al, 1988:397). Cross tabulation was done and Chi Square test of independence test conducted. Chi Square test is common for non- parametric populations.
Measuring the quality of life in forensic psychiatric hospitals
Creators: name: Brüsselmann, Michael
name: Titze, Larissa
name: Lutz, Maximilian
name: Dudeck, Manuela
name: Streb, Judith
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mentally ill offenders
subject: Living conditions
subject: Well-being
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Forensic psychiatry
subject: Commitment of mentally ill
subject: Criminals
subject: Prisoners
subject: Quality of life
subject: Gerichtliche Psychiatrie
subject: Strafgefangener
subject: Psychisch Kranker
subject: Lebensqualität

description: Background: In Germany, a large proportion of mentally ill offenders spends many years in a forensic psychiatric hospital. To ensure that the highly restrictive living conditions in these closed institutions meet patient needs, research must assess and analyze patient quality of life. For this purpose, we adapted the Measuring the Quality of Prison Life questionnaire to measure the quality of life in forensic psychiatric hospitals from the patient perspective. This study aimed to assess the reliability (internal consistency) and construct validity of the adapted questionnaire. Methods: To evaluate the questionnaire, a one-time survey was carried out at 13 forensic psychiatric hospitals in Germany. Item characteristics and internal consistency of the scale and subscales were calculated and the factor structure was tested using confirmatory factor analysis. To test of responsiveness we compared the mean quality of life between the 13 hospitals and further investigated whether the patients’ evaluation of quality of life is depending on age and duration of accommodation. Results: The analysis of the psychometric properties revealed very good item characteristics and very good to excellent internal reliability. Construct validity was demonstrated. Patient’s quality of life was significantly associated with age and duration of accommodation. Discussion: The adapted Measuring the Quality of Prison Life questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring quality of life in forensic psychiatric hospitals and can be used in the future to compare hospitals and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Logarithmically Clustered Self-Balancing AVL Tree
Creators: name: Pasha, Mohammed Rayaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Data structures
algorithms

description: The LCSB-AVL Tree enhances AVL trees by logarithmic clustering, splitting keys into smaller AVL subtrees for faster lookups and fewer rotations. With O(1) dictionary access and O(log x) AVL search, it reduces height by 30-40% and rotations by 50%, outperforming AVL, Red-Black, and DPB-BST structures.
sj-docx-1-anp-10.1177_00048674231179652 – Supplemental material for Self-harm and suicidal ideation among young people is more often recorded by child protection than health services in an Australian population cohort
Creators: name: O’Hare, Kirstie
name: Watkeys, Oliver
name: Dean, Kimberlie
name: Tzoumakis, Stacy
name: Whitten, Tyson
name: Harris, Felicity
name: Laurens, Kristin R
name: Carr, Vaughan J
name: Green, Melissa J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-anp-10.1177_00048674231179652 for Self-harm and suicidal ideation among young people is more often recorded by child protection than health services in an Australian population cohort by Kirstie O’Hare, Oliver Watkeys, Kimberlie Dean, Stacy Tzoumakis, Tyson Whitten, Felicity Harris, Kristin R Laurens, Vaughan J Carr and Melissa J Green in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Supplemental Material - Study of fluid-dynamic behavior in a convergent–divergent nozzle by shape optimization using evolutionary strategies algorithms
Creators: name: Bahamon, Jhan
name: Martinez, Manuel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental Material for Study of fluid-dynamic behavior in a convergent–divergent nozzle by shape optimization using evolutionary strategies algorithms by Jhan Bahamon and Manuel Martinez in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Spin Me Right Round Rotational Symmetry for FPGA-Specific AES
Creators: name: De Meyer, Lauren
name: Moradi, Amir
name: Wegener, Felix
Publisher: name: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Year: 2018

description: The effort in reducing the area of AES implementations has largely been focused on Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) in which a tower field construction leads to a small design of the AES S-box. In contrast, a naïve implementation of the AES S-box has been the status-quo on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). A similar discrepancy holds for masking schemes – a wellknown side-channel analysis countermeasure – which are commonly optimized to achieve minimal area in ASICs.
In this paper we demonstrate a representation of the AES S-box exploiting rotational symmetry which leads to a 50% reduction of the area footprint on FPGA devices. We present new AES implementations which improve on the state of the art and explore various trade-offs between area and latency. For instance, at the cost of increasing 4.5 times the latency, one of our design variants requires 25% less look-up tables (LUTs) than the smallest known AES on Xilinx FPGAs by Sasdrich and Güneysu at ASAP 2016. We further explore the protection of such implementations against first-order side-channel analysis attacks. Targeting the small area footprint on FPGAs, we introduce a heuristic-based algorithm to find a masking of a given function with d + 1 shares. Its application to our new construction of the AES S-box allows us to introduce the smallest masked AES implementation on Xilinx FPGAs, to-date.
description: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 3
sj-docx-1-ggm-10.1177_23337214231179839 – Supplemental material for Disclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Golden, Julia
name: Kenyon-Pesce, Lisa
name: Robison, Julie
name: Grady, James
name: Guerrera, Mary P.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ggm-10.1177_23337214231179839 for Disclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Julia Golden, Lisa Kenyon-Pesce, Julie Robison, James Grady and Mary P. Guerrera in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Transcriptional networks underlying a primary ovarian insufficiency disorder in alligators naturally exposed to EDCs: Transformed read counts and supplementary materials
Creators: name: Hale, Matthew
name: Koal, Therese
name: Pham, Tuan Hai
name: Bowden, John
name: Parrott, Ben
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Alligator mississippiensis
endocrine disruptor
ovary
follicle-stimulating hormone

description: Interactions between the endocrine system and environmental contaminants are responsible for impairing reproductive development and function. Despite the taxonomic diversity of affected species and attendant complexity inherent to natural systems, the underlying signaling pathways and cellular consequences are mostly studied in lab models. To resolve the genetic and endocrine pathways that mediate affected ovarian function in organisms exposed to endocrine disrupting contaminants in their natural environments, we assessed broad-scale transcriptional and steroidogenic responses to exogenous gonadotropin stimulation in juvenile alligators (Alligator missippiensis) originating from a lake with well-documented pollution (Lake Apopka, FL) and a nearby reference site (Lake Woodruff, FL). We found that individuals from Lake Apopka are charachterized by hyperandrogenism and display hyper-sensitive transcriptional responses to gonadotropin stimulation when compared to individuals from Lake Woodruff. Site-specific transcriptomic divergence appears to be driven by wholly distinct subsets of transcriptional regulators, indicating alterations to fundamental genetic pathways governing ovarian function. Consistent with broad-scale transcriptional differences, ovaries of Lake Apopka alligators displayed impediments to folliculogenesis, with larger germinal beds and decreased numbers of late-stage follicles. After resolving the ovarian transcriptome into clusters of co-expressed genes, most site-associated modules were correlated to ovarian follicule phenotypes across individuals. However, expression of two site-specific clusters were independent of ovarian cellular architecture and are hypothesized to represent alterations to cell-autonomous transcriptional programs. Collectively, our findings provide high resolution mapping of transcriptional patterns to specific reproductive function and advance our mechanistic understanding regarding impaired reproductive health in an established model of environmental endocrine disruption.
description: Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Award Number: Funding provided by: Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration*
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Interpretation of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux in terms of the blazar sequence
Creators: name: Palladino, Andrea
name: Rodrigues, Xavier
name: Gao, Shan
name: Winter, Walter
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: We study if the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux can come from blazar jets -- a subclass of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) -- while it, at the same time, respects the blazar stacking limit based on source catalogs and is consistent with the observation from TXS 0506+056. We compute the neutrino flux from resolved and unresolved sources using an averaged, empirical relationship between electromagnetic spectrum and luminosity, known as the {\em blazar sequence}, for two populations of blazars (BL Lacs and FSRQs). Using a source model with realistic neutrino flux computations, we demonstrate that blazars can indeed power the diffuse neutrino flux at the highest energies and obey the stacking limit at the same time, and we derive the conditions for the baryonic loading (proton versus $\gamma$-ray luminosity) evolving over the blazar sequence. Under the hypothesis that low-luminosity blazars power the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux, we find that the dominant contribution of the diffuse flux up to PeV energies must come from unresolved BL Lacs with baryonic loadings larger than about $10^5$ -- while only a very small contribution may come from resolved high-luminosity BL Lacs or FSRQs, which can be directly tested by the stacking limit. We find that the blazar TXS 0506+056 is on the verge of these populations in our baseline scenario, at a relatively high luminosity and redshift; as a consequence we predict about 0.4 $\gamma$-ray-neutrino associations per year from the whole population, dominated by BL Lacs with $L_\gamma \simeq 10^{45} \, \mathrm{erg/s}$ and $z \sim 0.1$.
title: Partizipatorische Journalismus-Modelle im Spannungsfeld von Qualität und Qualitätsbewertung im Web 2.0
Creators: name: Feyrer, Judith
Year: 2009

description: Information, Vernetzung und Partizipation verändern die Strukturen bestehender Kommunikationssysteme und nehmen Einfluss auf Gesellschaft und Kultur. Vor allem durch partizipatorische Journalismus-Modelle wie Weblogs findet eine enorme Explosion an Inhalten im World Wide Web statt und stellt User als auch vorherrschende Mediensysteme vor neue Herausforderungen. Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit Partizipationsmöglichkeiten im Web 2.0 und deren Einfluss auf das System Journalismus auseinander. Insbesondere Weblogs stehen in der Diskussion als eine Art alternatives Informationssystem die traditionellen Medien zunehmend unter Druck zu setzen. Aber fehlende Hierarchien, komplexe Strukturen und der Wegfall des im klassischen Journalismus institutionalisierten Schleusenwärters verlangen von Rezipienten hohe Kompetenzen im Bereich Bewertung und Selektion. Die Nachvollziehbarkeit von Qualität, und Authentizität von Online-Inhalten als auch der Einfluss der Blogszene auf das System Journalismus waren Teil dieser empirischen Untersuchung. Experteninterviews mit bloggenden Journalisten österreichischer Tageszeitungen zu den Themenbereichen Bürgerjournalismus, Weblogs und Qualität im Web 2.0 wurden in inhaltsanalytisch ausgewertet und für die Beantwortung der forschungsleitenden Fragestellungen herangezogen.
description: Information, networking and participation change the structures of existing communication systems and have a certain influence on society and its culture. In particular, models of participatory journalism, such as weblogs activate the distribution of an enormous amount of content and therefore pose new challenges for users, as well as for established systems of media. This thesis deals with possibilities of participation in Web 2.0 and their influence on journalism. Especially weblogs as a new sort of alternative information system are put into discussion more and more in order to put pressure on traditional media. However, missing hierarchies, complex structures and the abolition of the gatekeeper, which was institutionalized in classical journalism require high competences of evaluation and selection by recipients. Part of the empirical study constituted the traceability of quality and authenticity of online contents as well as the influence of the blogosphere on journalism. In terms of structure the survey was based on expert interviews which were conducted with journalists of Austrian daily newspapers, who blog themselves frequently. The interviews include questions of citizen journalism, weblogs as well as quality in web 2.0 and were evaluated by means of analysis of content and consulted for the answering of the questions of research.
ELES Report
Creators: name: Sorbonne University
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this report is to consider and analyse the legal and ethical context that should govern the

entire project, as well as to identify the potential economic and social aspects of the SLICES-SC project.

More precisely, the SLICES project seeks to design and implement a Europe-wide test-platform, to

support large-scale, experimental research focused on networking protocols, radio technologies,

services, data collection, parallel and distributed computing and in particular cloud and edge-based

computing architectures and services. The SLICES-SC (Scientific Community) project, more precisely,

aims at designing and deploying the necessary solutions that will enable its adoption by users. In order

to achieve this, SLICES-SC is building and expanding a community of researchers that will benefit from

the infrastructure. As such, a concrete focus is placed on ensuring access to these research

experiments, their reproducibility, and the validation and publication of the results.

Taking the above parameters into consideration, the present deliverable focuses on two primary

aspects of the SLICES-SC project: the compliance approach for the relevant ethical and legal

framework, and building upon these elements, and on relevant socio-economic considerations to

develop relevant guidance for future developments of the SLICES-RI, particularly as necessary to meet

applicable administrative and due-diligence requirements. In order to identify the potential challenges

that the project may be called to face, the present deliverable presents and analyses relevant

legislation and requirements at both an international and a European level, as well as the relevant

applicable international data transfer standards. Based on the above, the deliverable provides a series

of baseline guidance that partners of SLICES-SC project can utilise to design and implement their

activities in a manner that is compliant with relevant legislation and promotes data reuse and ethics.

These guidelines aim to cover all stages of the project’s lifecycle and include provisions on how to

share data within and beyond the Consortium in order to foster data reuse beyond the project’s

lifetime and constantly promote and expand research in the field of innovation and cutting-edge

technologies. Given the nature and processes associated with ethical and legal compliance assessment

and data governance, the information presented in this document is expected to evolve during the

project’s lifetime.

Overall, strong collaboration with WP3 is foreseen as technical and operational requirements for data

regulation compliance will be derived from the analysis and fed to the design of the architecture.

Additionally, the report seeks to provide guidance on the legal framework of cooperation between

researchers, operators, national agencies and regulatory bodies.