The overall control of the quality of botanical drugs starts from the botanical raw material, continues through preparation of the botanical drug substance and culminates with the botanical drug product. Chromatographic and spectroscopic fingerprinting has been widely used as a tool for the quality control of herbal/botanical medicines. However, discussions are still on-going on whether a singl...

Tor network is currently the most commonly used anonymity system with more than 300,000 users and almost 3000 relays. Attacks against Tor are typically confirmation attacks where the adversary injects easily discernible traffic pattern and observes which clients and/or relays exhibit such patterns. The main limitation of these attacks is that they require a “powerful” adversary. Website fingerp...

Recent advancements in indoor positioning systems are based on infrastructure-free solutions, aimed at improving the location accuracy in complex indoor environments without the use of specialized resources. A popular infrastructure-free solution for indoor positioning is a calibration-based positioning, commonly known as fingerprinting. Fingerprinting solutions require extensive and error-free...

Title of dissertation: RANDOM CODES AND GRAPHS FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION Nagaraj Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Alexander Barg Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering This dissertation considers two groups of problems related to secure communication. The first line of research is devoted to theoretical problems of copyright prot...

The paper uses insights from the so-called rape in disguise case study to describe forensic DNA practices in the Netherlands in late 1980s. It describes how “reliabilities” of forensic DNA practices were achieved. One such reliability – convincing evidence – proliferates body parts through time and space. Then, attention shifts to the individual who was suspected of having committed the rape. H...

Lallemantia is a medicinally important plant in the world. Due to interspecific hybridization and horizontal gene transfer, spices relationship delimitation on genus difficult based different molecular markers. Therefore, selecting appropriate marker can be important. Fingerprinting techniques continue used for genomic profiling characterization of germplasm establishment identity varieties/hyb...

conclusions: the combination of plasmid profiling and php techniques revealed the presence of diverse population of vre in sewage treatment plant in tehran. furthermore, the results showed that the php technique is a reliable method in determining the vre clonal diversity. results: all isolates were found to be resistant to erythromycin, ampicillin and ciprofloxacin. the pcr analyses showed tha...

Background and objectives: Traditional polyherbal oils are still in use in Persian Traditional Medicine (PTM). Most of these formulations are prepared via traditional procedures such as maceration of herbs in oils or evaporating aqueous herbal extracts in boiling or heating oils as the vehicle. Thus, their quality control, standardization and authentication are real challenges ...

BACKGROUND: Colibacillosis is one of the most economically important diseases of poultry worldwide. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to examine the clonal relatedness and typing of 95 avian Escherichia coli isolates by ERIC-PCR. METHODS: Sixty-three E. coli isolates from two common manifestations of colibacillosis (yolk sac infection and colisepticemia) and 32 isolates from feces of apparen...