As shown in previous studies, annexins are involved in many essential cellular processes and defence against various types of biotic and abiotic stresses. The purpose of this study is primarily to assess the relative contribution of annexins in the antioxidative defence against lead (Pb) stress. It is hypothesized that Pb exposure could result in o

During the American-led military campaign, the anti- Taliban Afghan groups signed the .UNsponsored December 5,200 I, Bonn Agre~ment in Germany. The Agreement in addition to the formation of the post- Taliban interim administration also provided a comprehensive framework for the democratization of Afghanistan. This study examines the process of demo

With the recent proliferation of distributed systems and networking, remote authentication has become a crucial task in many networking applications. Various schemes have been proposed so far for the two-party remote authentication; however, some of them have been proved to be insecure. In this paper, we propose an efficient timestamp-based passwor

The intent of this letter is to propose an efficient timestamp based password authentication scheme using smart cards. We show various types of forgery attacks against Shen et al.’s timestamp-based password authentication scheme and improve their scheme to ensure robust security for the remote authentication process, keeping all the advantages of

A case of ectopic pinworm abscess detected in the right inguinoscrotal swelling is described. A male aged 55 years presented with occasional pain at his right inguinal area for three months followed by accentuation of pain associated with fever and gradual swelling of that area for two weeks. Fine needle aspiration of the swelling revealed frank th

This paper proposes an efficient approach for managing the security in WSN. Our approach uses the notion of public key cryptography in which two different keys are used for encryption and decryption of data. Our analysis and performance evaluations show that, our approach is viable with the specifications of today's Berkley/Crossbow MICA2dot mo

Audit committee is becoming increasingly important because it helps the stakeholders to constrain the behaviour of corporate managers. With the assistance that they receive from internal auditors, activities of the audit committees and internal auditors are now seen as critical elements in the assurance process. The interaction between these two pa

Introduction The platysma myocutaneous flap have been described by a variety of learned leaders in head and neck surgery. Its advantages includes: thin, pliable and does not require special surgical skill, equipment, or technique to harvest. Methods A retrospective analysis of our experience with 5 patients who received a platysma myocutaneous flap

This study attempts to improve the performance of person verification by finger stripes geometry, which is an efficient, simple, fast, easy to handle and cost effective compared with other biometric human verification technique. Finger stripe geometry is a new biometric type in verification process. This finger stripe based verification consists of

Abstract: Medieval philosophers were confident that they must and could interpret and assimilate philosophy i.e. Greek philosophy into the religious ethos. The medieval philosophers' reasoning on why it was necessary to incorporate philosophy into the religious ethos is because philosophy provided the proofs for theoretical opinions in religion