BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE CT and MR angiographies have been reported to visualize the artery of Adamkiewicz (AKA) noninvasively to prevent spinal cord ischemia in surgery of thoracic descending aortic aneurysms. The purpose of this work was to compare the usefulness of CT angiography (CTA) with intra-arterial contrast injection (IACTA) with that of conventional CTA with intravenous contrast inject...

This study was carried out to gauge the preliminary insight regarding epilepsy among the rural society. The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine general level of awareness, knowledge and attitudes (AKA) towards epilepsy among rural communities, (2) to compare the AKA level based on socio-demographic characteristics and (3) to investigate rural cohort's perception of the best epilepsy t...

The goal of this prospective longitudinal study was to determine the serological profile of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to test whether antikeratin antibody (AKA), antiperinuclear factor (APF), anti-RA33 antibody and antinuclear antibodies (ANA) had an additional diagnostic value when prescribed after rheumatoid factor (RF)-detecting methods. Sixty-nine patients with early polyarthriti...

The Australian species of the genus Aka White are revised. Seven new species are described: A. balma sp. nov., A. dobsonensis sp. nov., A. gwana sp. nov., A. issidopsis sp. nov., A. kuraka sp. nov., A. pirri sp. nov., A. sorellensis sp. nov. Adding to those the 5 species solely occurring in New Zealand, we have a total number of 14 species in Aka. The types of A. hardyi Muir, 1931 and part of t...

Protocol and technology convergence, the core of near future communication, will soon be forming the interoperating heterogeneous networks. Attaining a strict secure authentication without risking the QoS performance and call success rates is a major concern when it comes to wireless heterogeneous networks. In order to achieve this, a generic, fast and secure, Authentication and Key Agreement p...

We introduce an efficient batch oriented authentication and key agreement (AKA) protocol named VAS-AKA to authenticate multiple requests sent from different mobile users simultaneously for value added services. The performance evaluation of VAS-AKA is presented in terms of communication and computation overhead, batch and re-batch verification delay. Using this protocol, the authentication serv...

AKA mice were inoculated with Gross mumine leukemia virus at 3 days of age. Such treatment results in thymic lymphoma in all animals between 8 and 12 weeks of age. Normal AKA mice develop the disease after 28 weeks of age. In this study, virus-treated (AKA-V) and normal (AKR N) mice were compared. Thymic weights, histology, and cell density as well as functional and mitogen assays of thymocytes...

In this paper we present an efficient ID-based authenticated key agreement (AKA) protocol by using bilinear maps, especially well suited to unbalanced computing environments : an ID-based AKA protocol for Server and Client. Particularly, considering low-power clients’ devices, we remove expensive operations such as bilinear maps from a client side. To achieve our goal we combine two notions, ke...

The nucleotide sequence of the small (S) RNA segment of Akabane (AKA) bunyavirus was determined. The segment is 858 nucleotides long and contains two overlapping open reading frames (ORFs), which encode the nucleocapsid (N) and nonstructural (NSs) proteins, consistent with other bunyaviruses. Comparisons with the Aino virus S RNA sequence indicated that there is 73.5% identity in nucleotide seq...