Incontinentia pigmenti is a rare X-linked genodermatosis that affects mainly female neonates. Skin manifestations are the most common and occur in four quite distinct phases. A female infant presented vesiculobullous lesions on trunk and limbs, and a verrucous lesion on the right palm. Biopsy revealed eosinophil exocytosis and pigment incontinence, confirming the clinical hypothesis. Although u...

Background: Incontinentia pigmenti (IP), also known as Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome, is a rare X-linked dominant genodermatosis that presents at the time of birth or soon after birth with cutaneous manifestation. This disorder may also affect the ectodermal tissues, such as the central nervous system, skeletal system, eyes, hair, nails, and teeth. The dermatological findings occur in four successi...

Case presentation of staged surgical treatment of patients with spinal deformity in incontinentia pigmenti syndrome. As a result of surgical procedure proper sagittal balance of the body was restored.

We describe a means for constructing phishing experiments which achieve the mutually competitive goals of being ethical and accurate. We present an implementation of these experiments based on the user interface of a popular online auction site, and the results gained from performing these experiments on several hundred subjects. In particular, we find that cousin domains (such as ebay.secure-n...

Traditional “traceability” (the flipside idea to “anonymity”) on the Internet attempts to identify the IP address that caused an action to occur. This is sufficient for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to take action against the authorized user of that IP address. Law enforcement agencies usually need to go beyond this in order to identify the individual concerned. However, shared accounts, u...

The SC6 participants and researchers who want to submit papers should submit titles and abstracts by July 2, and full papers by July 23. Author(s) should advise which theme their paper has been prepared for. Please submit titles, abstracts and full papers to the Chair (Naozumi Miyabe, [email protected]) and each relevant Theme Convenor below: Theme Convener Email Fish biology Miki Ogura og...

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Voice over IP (VoIP) allows service providers to offer advanced IP-based services with reduced costs as compared with the traditional telecommunication voice services. This paper proposes a SIP-based prepaid mechanism to handle both the prepaid calls and messaging services in a VoIP system. When both voice and messaging are simultaneously offered, a potential problem is that the delivery of a m...