Welfare concerns are growing regarding surgical castration (SC) in pets, necessitating the need for non-surgical alternatives. Administration of vaccines against gonadotropins releasing hormone (GnRH) have been reported as alternative to SC. This study determined the effect of surgical and immunological castrations (IC) on complete blood counts, plasma testosterone (T), luteinizing hormone (LH)...

In this paper, we propose an enhanced version of the HB-MP authentication protocol, called the HB-MP protocol. The HB-MP protocol is a lightweight authentication protocol that is suitable for use in passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. The HB-MP protocol overcomes the man-in-the-middle attack to which the basic HB-MP protocol is vulnerable while maintaining its suitability to ...

With increased use of passive RFID tags, the need for secure lightweight identification protocols arose. HB+ is one such protocol, which was proven secure in the detection-based model, but shown breakable by man-in-the-middle attacks. Trusted-HB is a variant of HB+, specifically designed to resist man-in-the-middle attacks. In this paper, we discuss several weaknesses of Trusted-HB, show that t...

We propose a light-weight protocol for authentication of low-power devices. Our construc-tion PUF-HB merges the positive qualities of two families of authentication functions. PUFrepresents physically unclonable functions and fulfills the purpose of providing low-cost tamper-resilient challenge-response authentication. On the other hand, the Hopper Blum (HB) functionprovides...

background: beta thalassemia gene mutations are among common mutations in southwest iran. however, hemoglobin e (hb e) and hb e/β⁰ thalassemia account for a small number of hemoglobinopathies in iran. this is the first study to directly address the existence of hb e and consequently hb e/β⁰ thalassemia in southwest iran. methods: this retrospective study discovered seven cases of hb e/β⁰ thalas...

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo SP, Brazil; Department of Neurology, Hospital e Maternidade São Camilo Pompéia, São Paulo SP, Brazil; Medical Student, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo SP, Brazil. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) has been described as adverse event following different types of vaccines, such as influenza, varicella, pol...

Background: Following WHO recommendation, HBV vaccination has been integrated into EPI program in Iran since 1996.  Objective: To evaluate the immunogenicity and protective effect of HB vaccine (recombinant Heberbiovac ,Cuba ) in vaccinated children and adults .  Methods: A total of 542 cases (340 children and 202 adults) were vaccinated using a three-doses schedule of zero, one and six month. ...

Several functional tests were performed to compare Hb A, Hb A2, and Hb Lepore Boston, which has a delta-beta crossover in the region of residues 87 to 116. Oxygen equilibrium curves determined by an automatic apparatus in 0.1 M potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, at 20 degrees showed that the p50 was 5.8 mm Hg for Hb Lepore Boston, in contrast to 8.1 and 10.3 mm Hg for Hb A2 and Hb A, respectiv...