Recently, Zhang et al. proposed a password-based authenticated key agreement for session initiation protocol (Int J Commun Syst 2013, doi:10.1002/dac.2499). They claimed that their protocol is secure against known security attacks. However, in this paper, we indicate that the protocol by Zhang et al. is vulnerable to impersonation attack whereby an active adversary without knowing the user’s pa...

The certificatless cryptography has been studied widely since it could eliminate the need of certificates in the Public Key Infrastructure and solve the inherent key escrow problem in the identity-based cryptography. Recently, Zhang et al.’s proposed the first RSA-based certificateless signature scheme and demonstrated that their scheme is provably secure in the random oracle model. In this pap...

Proteinuria is an independent risk factor for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (Shankland, 2006). Recent studies highlighted the mechanisms of podocyte injury and implications for potential treatment strategies in proteinuric kidney diseases (Zhang et al., 2012). Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are cellular signals which are closely associated with the development and progression of glomerular scle...

In India, donkey milk (DM) is gaining lot of attention for human (children) consumption in view of its medicinal and therapeutic values with special reference to its antimicrobial property. Since ages, donkey milk has been known for its significant medicinal and therapeutic properties (Zhang et al., 2008, Vincenzetti et al., 2008). Some of these properties of DM are in prevention of atheroscler...

Measuring systemic oxygen consumption (VO2) is a fundamental part of hemodynamic and oxygen transport assessment when using the Fick principle. This measure is pivotal for children with congenital heart disease, at cardiac catheterization and in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery (CPB). According to the direct Fick principle (Fick, 1870), VO2 may be combined with...

An unsteady-state, fugacity-based, indoor chemical fate model was developed to explore kinetic resistance of multilayer of polyurethane foam (PUF) commonly found in upholstered furniture. The Dynamic Layered PUF Simplified Multimedia Indoor Model (DLP-sMIM) was based on the Multimedia Indoor Model created by Zhang et al. (Zhang, Diamond et al. 2009). DLP-sMIM was applied to real and hypothetica...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

9 Country Comparisons of Human Stroke Research Since 2001 A Bibliometric Study Kjell Asplund, MD; Marie Eriksson, PhD; Olle Persson, PhD (Stroke. 2012;43:830-837.)