The multiple Huffman table (MHT) based encryption technique for multimedia encryption gained much popularity, due to its simplicity, less complexity and good compression performance. At the same time, it is proved that the MHT based encryption system is vulnerable to several types of attacks. In this paper, the security issues of the MHT based encryption system are analyzed. On the basis of ana...

The multiple hypotheses tracker (MHT) is an optimal tracking method due to the enumeration of all possible measurement-to-track associations. However, its practical implementation is limited by the NP-hard nature of this enumeration. To bound the computational complexity, some means of limiting the number of possible associations is required. Typical solutions include the interposition of rules...

Mast cells are activated by specific allergens and also by various nonspecific stimuli, which might induce physical urticaria. This study investigated the functional expression of temperature sensitive transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV) subfamily in the human mast cell line (HMC-1) using whole-cell patch clamp techniques. The temperature of perfusate was raised from room temperature ...

Adrenomedullin (AM), a potent vasodilator and natriuretic peptide, is found in human blood. To investigate the pathophysiological role of AM in essential and malignant hypertension (EHT and MHT), we measured the plasma concentrations of AM in patients with EHT of WHO stage I or II (n = 42) and in those with MHT (n = 9) by a specific radioimmunoassay, and compared these concentrations with those...

Two ocean general circulation models are used to test the ability of geostrophic velocity measurement systems to observe the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) and meridional heat transport (MHT) in the South Atlantic. Model sampling experiments are conducted at five latitudes (between 158 and 34.58S) spanning the range of extratropical current regimes in the South Atlantic. Two methods o...

Magnetic hyperthermia is a new type of cancer treatment designed for overcoming resistance to chemotherapy during the treatment of solid, inaccessible human tumors. The main challenge of this technology is increasing the local tumoral temperature with minimal side effects on the surrounding healthy tissue. This work consists of an in vitro study that compared the effect of hyperthermia in respo...

BACKGROUND Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) is one of the carbapenemases that can cause multi-antibiotics resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. A simple phenotypic rapid and accurate test for the detection of A. baumannii - KPC-producer can be useful in treating related infections. The aim of this study was to determine the synergism effect of boronic acid (BA), as an inhibitor, and m...

The aim of this study was to identify the reason for frequent failure of carbapenems and β-lactam and β-lactamase inhibitor combination drugs in clinical settings despite susceptibility. For this different isolates collected from clinical specimens were tested for susceptibility and identification of carbapenemase producers was done by phenotypic method (Modified Hodge Test). Further, phenotypi...

On the basis of combined measurements of clinic blood pressure (CBP) and out-of-office blood pressure (BP), such as home blood pressure (HBP) and ambulatory BP, BP status can be divided into 4 categories: normotension (NT), whitecoat hypertension (WCHT), masked hypertension (MHT), and sustained hypertension (SHT). Although several authors have reported clear associations of MHT and SHT with car...

A study was designed to evaluate the modified Hodge test (MHT), Mastdiscs ID inhibitor combination disks (MDI), Rosco Diagnostica Neo-Sensitabs (RDS), metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) Etest, and in-house multiplex PCR for the detection of well-characterized carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. One hundred forty-two nonrepeat clinical isolates of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (inclu...