Global Platform (GP) as a cross industry, nonprofit association develops and publishes specifications promoting secure deployment and management of multi-Application environments of smart card technology based applications and ensuring their interoperability. The GP specifications define the business and technological processes and the associated security requirements. This publication introduces the design and development of a fully functioning smart card application management infrastructure implementing all the related GP processes and corresponding security requirements. The infrastructure supports all the phases of the application life cycle and all the partners in the ecosystem. The system is tested by several trials and certified by independent security assessment.

A periodic table of codons has been designed where the codons are in regular locations. The table has four fields (16 places in each) one with each of the four nucleotides (A, U, G, C) in the central codon position. Thus, AAA (lysine), UUU (phenylalanine), GGG (glycine), and CCC (proline) were placed into the corners of the fields as the main codons (and amino acids) of the fields. They were connected to each other by six axes. The resulting nucleic acid periodic table showed perfect axial symmetry for codons. The corresponding amino acid table also displaced periodicity regarding the biochemical properties (charge and hydropathy) of the 20 amino acids and the position of the stop signals. The table emphasizes the importance of the central nucleotide in the codons and predicts that purines control the charge while pyrimidines determine the polarity of the amino acids. This prediction was experimentally tested. © 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.