PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to establish an evaluation method using a Nasometer, with several monosyllabic test words, to reveal the level of air leakage in maxillectomy patients without limitations due to language or ability to read. METHODS 20 normal Japanese (Group 1) and 20 international adults (Group 2), were asked to read 7 monosyllables, (5 vowels and 2 combined vowels, /a/, ...

Since their introduction in the late 90’s, side-channel attacks have been considered as a major threat against cryptographic implementations. This threat has raised the need for formal leakage models in which the security of implementations can be proved. At Eurocrypt 2013, Prouff and Rivain introduced the noisy leakage model which has been argued to soundly capture the physical reality of powe...

Background: Xanthomonas campestris is a biopolymer producing gram negative bacterium. Production of xanthan biopolymer can be affected by different extrinsic factors as well as surfactants. Hitherto, effects of nonionic surfactants on xanthan production have been studied in a limited number of articles.Objective: In the present study, nonionic surfactants...

Sir, Bacterial peritonitis is the most common cause of cloudy dialysate seen in patients with peritoneal dialysis (PD) [1]. However, the differential diagnoses include sterile ‘allergic’ peritonitis, excess fibrin and haemoperitoneum (e.g. menstrual blood loss). A rare cause is chyloperitoneum [2] caused by leakage of chyle. For the first time, we present a case of chyloperitoneum in a PD patie...

Human heat shock protein (hsp) 70 and bacterial protein groEL promote leakage of calcein from liposomes induced by human serum albumin signal peptide, by S. aureus alpha toxin or by diphtheria toxin. Hsp 70 and groEL, as well as two mycobacterial homologues hsp 71 and hsp 65, induce ion conducting pores across planar lipid bilayers at low or neutral pH. It is concluded that hsp induce pores in ...

This paper deals with the inspection of pipeline by means of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The different methods of pipeline inspection, its technical and economic efficiency have been examined. The theoretical and experimental base for air monitoring on base of On Board Infrared Equipment (OBIE) have been examined. The method of pipeline inspection by means of UAV has been proposed. The descr...

To assure the privacy of RFID Tags, symmetric challenge-response identification protocols have been considered. Due to the low cost requirements for tags, it has been assumed that the tampering of RFID tags is possible. In this paper, we estimate the privacy leakage of challenge-response RFID authentication protocols based on symmetric key using discrete probability under the assumption that ta...

Cecropin A and papiliocin are novel 37-residue cecropin-like antimicrobial peptides isolated from insect. We have confirmed that papiliocin possess high bacterial cell selectivity and has an α-helical structure from Lys(3) to Lys(21) and from Ala(25) to Val(35), linked by a hinge region. In this study, we demonstrated that both peptides showed high antimicrobial activities against multi-drug re...