Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a tumor arising from mesothelium. MM patients' survival is poor. The polyphenol 4',5,7,-trihydroxyflavone Apigenin (API) is a "multifunctional drug". Several studies have demonstrated API anti-tumoral effects. However, little is known on the in vitro and in vivo anti-tumoral effects of API in MM. Thus, we analyzed the in vitro effects of API on cell proliferation,...

onychomycosis due to the yeast and yeast-like fungi was investigated among the 147 patient who refered to the mycology laboratory of school of public health during the period of 11 months. the isolated yeasts and yeast-like fungi were examined by api auxanogram methed. the distribution of isolated microorganisms were c. tropicalis 10(7.4%), c.guillioimondii & (5.9%) cases and one case of each o...

W3C XML (Extensible Markup Language) Schema defines a set of abstract components, which carry the core semantics of document structure definition. There has been no standard API for accessing these components or their structures yet. The MARKUP Technology Company has specified a Java API for accessing XML Schema and submitted it to the W3C as a possible basis for standard Schema API. An overvie...

We define a new class of security protocols using XOR, and show that secrecy after an unbounded number of sessions is decidable for this class. The new class is important as it contains examples of key-management APIs, such as the IBM 4758 CCA API, which lie outside the classes for which secrecy has previously been shown to be decidable. Earlier versions of the CCA API were shown to have seriou...

UPC is a promising programming model for shared-memory parallel computing on sharedand distributed-memory system architectures. Berkeley UPC, which utilizes the GASNet communication system, is one promising system aimed to develop a portable, high-performance implementation of UPC for large-scale clusters. Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is known for its ability to provide very low latency tr...

The Lexical Grid project is an on-going community driven initiative that provides a common terminology model to represent multiple vocabulary and ontology sources as well as a scalable and robust API for accessing such information. In order to add more powerful functionalities to the existing infrastructure and align LexGrid more closely with various Semantic Web technologies, we introduce the ...

One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved in a metacomputing environment often span multiple administrative domains, each with its own security policy. This paper presents a distributed authorization model used by our resource allocation system, the Prospero R...

API level vulnerabilities of hardware security modules represent a serious threat, thus, discovering and patching security holes in APIs are important. In this paper, we argue and illustrate that the application of formal verification methods is a promising approach for API analysis. In particular, we propose an API verification method based on process algebra. The proposed method seems to be e...