Male genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a rare but serious phenomenon. Some of the risk factors for this act are the presence of religious delusions, command hallucinations, low self-esteem, and feelings of guilt associated with sexual offences. Other risk factors include failures in the male role, problems in the early developmental period, such as experiencing difficulties in male identificatio...

Ovine lentiviruses and caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) are prototypic lentiviruses that replicate predominantly in macrophages of infected animals. In situ hybridization of pathologically affected tissues from diseased animals has shown that viral RNA exists in permissive macrophages as well as in non-macrophage cell types that do not support productive virus replication. These find...

Mobile wireless networks are more vulnerable to unauthorised access and eavesdropping when compared with the traditional fixed wired networks due to the mobility of users, the transmission of signals through open-air and the requirement of low power consumption by a mobile user. This paper focuses on the security techniques used within the GSM standard. First, current GSM security system vulner...

Open base transceiver station (BTS) project was originally developed using open-source Unix/Linux applications in conjunction with Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to implement GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) air interface supporting GSM handsets at much lower cost than commercial carrier BTS systems. This paper emphasizes concepts and methodology of low cost Open BTS im...

This paper discusses the gap created by an international digital divide in Africa. The paper focuses on bridging the digital divide that exists between the developed countries and Africa, especially in the use of the internet and Global System Mobile (GSM) communication services. Issues like bridging the international digital divide, digital divide and Africa, bridging the digital divide in Afr...

This study was conducted to obtain the basic data of two common odorants-geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (GSM and 2-MIB)-in environmental water. More specifically, the headspace solid-phase microextraction coupled to gas chromatography mass spectrometry (HS-SPME/GC-MS) was applied to determine the levels of GSM and 2-MIB in water samples, and the samples were collected depending on water sources...

Recently, several work related to channel assignment for MCN-type systems were reported. Wu et al proposed diverting traffic from the congested cells to the non-congested cells (Wu et al., 2001; Wu et al., 2004), which is achieved by relaying traffic through unlicensed frequency band, such as the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band. For iCAR (Wu et al., 2001; Wu et al., 2004), ad hoc ...