The strong need for security guarantee, e.g., integrity and authenticity, as well as privacy and confidentiality in wireless multimedia services has driven the development of an emerging research area in low cost Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). Unfortunately, those conventional encryption and authentication techniques cannot be applied directly to WMSNs due to inborn challenges suc...

To the Editor: Recent reports from Afghanistan have focused on the current status of war-and refugee-related anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL), caused by Leishmania tropica, in Kabul City, refugee camps, and Fayzabad City (Badakhshan Province) (1–4). In central Asia, ACL is transmitted mainly by the sandfly Phlebotomus sergenti in urban or peri-urban environments (5). Zoonotic cutaneo...

Cyrus Khandanpour,1-3 Christian Thiede,4 Peter J. M. Valk,5 Ehssan Sharif-Askari,1 Holger Nückel,3 Dietmar Lohmann,6 Bernhard Horsthemke,6 Winfried Siffert,7 Andreas Neubauer,8 Karl-Heinz Grzeschik,9 Clara D. Bloomfield,10 Guido Marcucci,10 Kati Maharry,10,11 Marilyn L. Slovak,12 Bert A. van der Reijden,13 Joop H. Jansen,13 Hans K. Schackert,14 Khashayar Afshar,1 Susanne Schnittger,15 Justine K...

• Placencio, V.R., Sharif-Afshar, A.-R., Simon W. Hayward, and Bhowmick N.A. (2005) Prostatic Epithelial Transformation and Androgen Responsiveness Regulated by Stromal-Epithelial Interactions. (oral presentation) Society For Basic Urologic Research Meeting. Miami, FL. Awards received based on work supported by this grant None Products CDNA construct, cell lines, and animal models developed • D...

X iv :c on dm at /0 70 33 87 v2 [ co nd -m at .s of t] 2 5 Ja n 20 08 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Folding and Diffusion of Proteins in Nanopores Leili Javidpour, Muhammad Sahimi, and M. Reza Rahimi Tabar Dep. of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11365, Iran Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal...

• Placencio, V.R., Sharif-Afshar, A.-R., Simon W. Hayward, and Bhowmick N.A. (2005) Prostatic Epithelial Transformation and Androgen Responsiveness Regulated by Stromal-Epithelial Interactions. (oral presentation) Society For Basic Urologic Research Meeting. Miami, FL. Awards received based on work supported by this grant None Products CDNA construct, cell lines, and animal models developed • D...

Post-transfusion purpura (PTP) is an adverse reaction to a blood transfusion or platelet transfusion that occurs when the body produces alloantibodies to the introduced platelets' antigens. These alloantibodies destroy the patient's platelets leading to thrombocytopenia, a rapid decline in platelet count. PTP usually presents 5–12 days after transfusion, and is a potentially fatal condition. Th...

1. Dorosz, S., Abubacker, S., Masala, N., Jay, G., Schmidt TA. Cartilage Boundary Lubricating Ability of Full-Length Human Recombinant PRG4 – Alone and in Combination with Hyaluronan. March 28-31, 2015. Las Vegas, NV. 2. Al-Sharif A., Schmidt T., Jay G., Elsaid K. Lubricin/Proteoglycan-4 Inhibits Proinflammatory Cytokine Induced Synoviocyte Proliferation via CD44-Interaction. Orthopedic Researc...

Actor-based modeling has been successfully applied to the representation of concurrent and distributed systems. Besides having an appropriate and efficient way for modeling these systems, one needs a formal verification approach for ensuring their correctness. In this paper, we develop an actor-based model for describing such systems, use temporal logic to specify properties of the model, and a...