PURPOSE This study explores the potential of the simvastatin to ameliorate inflammation and infection in open infected skin wounds of rats. METHODS Fourteen Wistar rats weighing 285 +/- 12g were used. The study was done in a group whose open infected skin wounds were treated with topical application of simvastatin microemulsion (SIM, n=7) and a second group with wounds treated with saline 0.9...

► SiM would in future publish three issues per year; ► SiM would only accept papers that deal with fungal cultures, and/or fungal DNA, which should be deposited at CBS to be optimally accessible to the scientific community; ► SiM would publish papers by invitation or if a volume or special topic was supported by one of its associate editors; ► SiM would move to a print-on-demand system that all...

Nowadays there are many tools for the extraction of data objects [SWGDE] from SIM cards; unfortunately, most of them are proprietary, or their use is restricted to law enforcement and this is contrary to the Daubert test for acceptability from the scientific community. In this paper, we present an open source tool for data objects extraction from SIM and USIM cards which is capable of extractin...

The entire simocyclinone biosynthetic cluster (sim gene cluster) from the producer Streptomyces antibioticus Tü6040 was identified on six overlapping cosmids (1N1, 5J10, 2L16, 2P6, 4G22, and 1K3). In total, 80.7 kb of DNA from these cosmids was sequenced, and the analysis revealed 49 complete open reading frames (ORFs). These ORFs include genes responsible for the formation and attachment of fo...

Java Card technology provides a secure, vendor-independent, ubiquitous Java platform for smart cards and other memory constrained devices such as SIM technology. It is also an open standard in SIM and UIM technology for 3G environment. However, the major point of criticism with regard to Java for smart cards and SIM cards is its low execution speed, aside from its memory demands. We found out t...

We report on our progress in extending the behavioral repertoire of RHex, a compliant leg hexapod robot. We introduce two new controllers, one for climbing constant slope inclinations and one for achieving higher speeds via pronking, a gait that incorporates a, substantial aerial phase. In both cases, we make use of an underlying open-loop control strategy, combined with low bandwidth feedback ...

BACKGROUND Population movements following disasters can cause important increases in morbidity and mortality. Without knowledge of the locations of affected people, relief assistance is compromised. No rapid and accurate method exists to track population movements after disasters. We used position data of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards from the largest mobile phone company in Haiti (Dig...

We study simulation-based, selective opening security against chosen-ciphertext attacks (SIM-SO-CCA security) for public key encryption (PKE). In a selective opening, chosen-ciphertext attack (SO-CCA), an adversary has access to a decryption oracle, sees a vector of ciphertexts, adaptively chooses to open some of them, and obtains the corresponding plaintexts and random coins used in the creati...

ACN-Sim is a data-driven, open-source simulation environment designed to accelerate research in the field of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging. It fills need this community for widely available, realistic which researchers can evaluate algorithms and test assumptions. provides modular, extensible architecture, models complexity real charging systems, including battery behavior unbalanced thr...