coronary artery disease (cad) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in most countries. this disease is directly associated with increased low–density lipoprotein cholesterol (ldl-c) and is conversely associated with high–density lipoprotein cholesterol (hdl-c) concentrations. abca1 is the main exporter of phospholipid and cholesterol from cells to lipid-free or minimum lipid apolipoprot...

Protocols that provide authentication and key distribution are mainly based on symmetric and asymmetric ciphers. In recent years, some approaches have been introduced that are based on strong one-way hash functions, and further enhancements to these approaches are given in this paper. The lightweight protocols that are presented in this paper are suitable for implementation with simple logic. T...

Group communications require special support for name and address management, QoS support, and connection establishment. The group and session management system (GMS) is a distributed directory system which is speci cally designed to support group communication infrastructures. This report brie y introduces the concepts of GMS, the data types available, and then gives a speci cation of GAP, the...