This letter is about a principal weakness of the published article by Li et al. in 2014. It seems that the mentioned work has a terrible conceptual mistake while presenting its theoretical approach. In fact, the work has tried to design a new attack and its effective solution for a basic watermarking algorithm by Zhu et al. published in 2013, however in practice, we show the Li et al.'s approac...

The author contends that sex differentials in childhood mortality in Pakistan are a likely outcome of son preference behavior by parents. Consideration is given to the historical improvement in the female disadvantage in mortality, the neglect of female children, gender and class factors, and son preference and high fertility. Data are from the 1981 Pakistan census and other official surveys....

BACKGROUND The kidney is affected by immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) in more than 50% of patients who present with the disease, but long-term predictors for and outcomes after renal replacement therapy are not well described. METHODS Kaplan-Meier and multivariate analyses were performed in a uniformly treated cohort of 145 patients with biopsy-proven AL who were monitored for at l...

Published Ahead of Print 14 July 2010. 10.1128/CVI.00100-10. 2010, 17(9):1381. DOI: Clin. Vaccine Immunol. Sang-Moo Kang Donis, Mark R. Prausnitz, Richard W. Compans and Li-Mei Chen, Fu-Shi Quan, James C. Birchall, Ruben O. Pearton, C. Todd Davis, Dae-Goon Yoo, Kyoung-Mi Park, Jae-Min Song, Yeu-Chun Kim, Aleksandr S. Lipatov, Marc Mice Long-Lasting Band T-Cell Responses in Virus-Like Particles ...