OBJECTIVES: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is one of common clinical problem presented in daily otological practice. The pathological problems can be either in the cochlea or in the retrocochlear region. Majority of the aetiologies are unknown. The causes have been postulated secondaries to vascular pathology, autoimmune reaction, inflammatory p

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to analyze the outcome of surgical management in traumatic facial paralysis secondary to temporal bone fracture. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Prospective review was done in eleven patients with House-Brackmann’s grading more than IV. The facial nerves were decompressed via transmastoid approach. High-resolution c

The growth of the Internet as a vehicle for secure communication has resulted in Data Encryption Standard (DES) no longer capable of providing high-level security for data protection. Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) is a symmetric block cipher with 192 bits key proposed to further enhance DES. Many applications crave for the speed of a hardw

The efficiency of pond aquaculture largely depends on species combination, stocking density and ratio, and the quantity and quality of nutrient inputs. In semi-intensive polyculture, fish production is mainly based on natural productivity, which greatly depends on nutrients availability in the water column. Addition of benthivorous fish enhances th

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