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Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.
The process for running a board, sometimes called the board process, includes the selection of board members, the setting of clear board objectives, the dissemination of documents or board package to the board members, the collaborative creation of an agenda for the meeting, the creation and follow-up of assigned action items, and the assessment of the board process through standardized assessments of board members, owners, and CEOs.
The officer selection process requires pilots and support officers ( flight surgeon, events coordinator, maintenance officer, supply officer, and public affairs officer ) wishing to become Blue Angels to apply formally via their chain-of-command, with a personal statement, letters of recommendation and flight records.
Rushes are asked to tell a joke prior to the brief, and graded by the team as part of the rigorous selection process.
Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that increase an individual's fitness become more common, and heritable traits that decrease an individual's fitness become less common.
That kind of leadership selection process had never been tried in any parliament system before, and remains uncommon in the parliaments of the world today.
According to Moore, as long as that kind of leadership selection process remains in place, and concentrates power in the hands of the leader, as opposed to backbenchers, then coalition governments will be very difficult to form.
After a short configuration process and mirror selection, it uses tools available on the user's computer to automatically download, unpack, compile, test, and install modules.
Dennett sees evolution by natural selection as an algorithmic process ( though he spells out that algorithms as simple as long division often incorporate a significant degree of randomness ).
To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.
EP views the human brain as comprising many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations or evolved cognitive mechanisms or cognitive modules, designed by the process of natural selection.
Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.
In 2006 a major scandal in Italian football revealed that certain clubs had been illegally influencing the referee selection process, in an attempt to ensure that certain referees were assigned to their matches.
Open stud books exist for horse breeds that either have not yet developed a rigorously defined standard phenotype, or for breeds that register animals who conform to an ideal via the process of passing a studbook selection process.
These registries usually require a studbook selection process involving judging of an individual animal's quality, performance, and conformation before registration is finalized.
He was a model figure who defined the training and selection process of all succeeding Egyptian priests and architects within Egypt ’ s jurisdiction.
The exact origins of Internet slang terms originate largely on the Internet, but the selection process remains seemingly irregular or abstract.
The Institute defines it as the proposition that " certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
This process is thought to be subject to selection, with a tendency towards intron gain in larger species due to their smaller population sizes, and the converse in smaller ( particularly unicellular ) species.
Supporters of intelligent design argue that anything less than the complete form of such a system or organ would not work at all, or would in fact be a detriment to the organism, and would therefore never survive the process of natural selection.

selection and for
That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.
Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.
To the members of our Advisory Board, and most specially to its members who constitute our committees of selection, the Foundation is indebted for its successes of choice of Fellows.
The selection of materials depends on skills of available labor for installation, cost of materials available locally, and your own preference.
There is a broad spectrum of organisms from which selection for a specified military purpose might be made.
It may be assumed that differences in ratings due to selection of growth centers from specific regions of the body will be small, according to existing tables of onset age and completion age for centers throughout the body.
In order to attain the goal of group solidarity and to relieve tension, the high fertility rate provides more group members for mate selection, and the clustering of members in groups fosters acceptance of group controls.
Children whose reading scores were at least one standard deviation below the regression line of each total third-grade school population were considered under-achievers for the purposes of sample selection.
But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.
You will come to Alemagna, a delightful, though moderately expensive restaurant, which is particularly noted for its exceptional selection of ice creams and patisseries.
Body parts, pointers, adapted mice, joysticks, or eye tracking could be used, whereas switch access scanning is often used for indirect selection.
In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.
For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.
The Asphodel Fields were for a varied selection of human souls: Those whose sins equalled their goodness, were indecisive in their lives, or were not judged.
There are rather strict selection rules as to the electronic configurations that can be reached by excitation by light — however there are no such rules for excitation by collision processes.

selection and winner
* March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U. S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
In 2006, in an article for MSNBC about the 78th Academy Awards selection of Crash as Best Picture, Erik Lundegaard called Crash the " worst Best Picture winner since the ' dull, bloated ' film The Greatest Show on Earth "
For one production on the album, Scarface co-hosted a worldwide producer showcase with iStandard from which thousands of producers were considered and after a selection of the top 8, Alex Kresovich was named winner.
In some games of chance, using odds against is also the most convenient way to understand what winnings will be paid if the selection is successful: the winner will be paid ' six ' of whatever stake unit was bet for each ' one ' of the stake unit wagered.
The initial three nominees were chosen by a selection committee, while the winner was determined by fan vote.
These percentages are essentially the cumulative implied percentage chances of the odds on offer for each selection and for a single winner market will usually add up to more than 100 % for all back selections ( but only marginally over in a competitive market ), and under 100 % for the lay selections.
Independence of Smith-dominated alternatives ( ISDA ) is a voting system criterion defined such that its satisfaction by a voting system occurs when the selection of the winner is independent of candidates who are not within the Smith set.
The new governing body replaced an earlier system where club delegates met informally to decide on the rules, the selection of the winner of the Challenge Cup, the division of clubs into Senior and Junior status, and other matters of mutual interest.
The 1997 judging criteria also removed ' audience applause ' for selection of a winner when a match ended with both robots still mobile.
In time the selection of the annual winner fell to the board of the NADC itself, whose members are appointed by the Prime Minister of the day.
A national selection committee consisting of over 150 journalists, commentators, broadcasters, and former players selects the award winner.
They had no role in the selection of the winner, merely to pass comment.
' He was surprised by his selection as a Nobel winner, saying " It ’ s like winning the lottery, I ’ m still in shock.
They received in the trade the rights to eventual Hart Trophy winner Peter Forsberg, as well as Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Mike Ricci, Kerry Huffman, Steve Duchesne, a 1st round selection ( Jocelyn Thibault ) in 1993, a 1st round selection ( later traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, later traded to the Washington Capitals — Nolan Baumgartner ) in 1994, and $ 15, 000, 000 cash.
The selection of Miss Puerto Rico commences the year before the winner advances to participate in the Miss Universe pageant.
In accordance with the rules of the Technology Academy Finland, a proposal concerning the winner of the Millennium Technology Prize is made to the board of the foundation by the eight-member international selection committee, and the final decision on the prize winner is made by the board.
Successful CAAMA Indigenous trainees include Rachael Perkins ( AFI award winning Writer / Director ), Beck Cole ( Writer / Director, official Sundance selection ), Allan Collins ( Director / Cinematographer, AFI awarding winning Cinematographer ), Daniele McLean ( AFI awarding winning Writer / Director ), Warwick Thompson ( Director / Cinematographer, winner of Berlin Film Festival ), Erica Glynn ( Writer / Director, AFI nominee ), Priscilla Collins ( Executive Producer, AFI nominee ), Peter Clarke ( Online Editor, Imparja Television ), and Angela Bates ( Journalist, SBS Television ).
Self played collegiate basketball at Oklahoma State University, where he was a four-year letter winner between 1982 and 1985 and was an All-Big Eight freshman selection in 1982.
The lottery winner would get the first selection in the draft.
The judges of that contest — Albert Roussel, Jacques Ibert, Arthur Honegger, Alexandre Tansman, Tibor Harsányi, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, and Henri Gil-Marchex — were unanimous in their selection of Ifukube as the winner.
The amendment to the traditional selection committee added that when a unanimous decision could not be reached in the selection of a Ya Naa a secret ballot will be cast and the winner will be the candidate with majority vote.

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