BACKGROUND Evidence exists of a new form of local allergic rhinitis (LAR) with local production of specific IgE (sIgE) and a positive response to nasal allergen provocation test (NAPT) in patients previously diagnosed with idiopathic rhinitis. However, the immunologic mechanisms involved are still poorly understood. OBJECTIVE We explored the involvement of nasal sIgE, eosinophil, and mast cel...

Security-as-a-service (SaaS) is an outsourcing model for security management in cloud computing. Vulnerability scanners based on cloud computing is becoming one of the killer applications in SaaS due to the pay-per-use manner and powerful scanning capability. When performing vulnerability scanning through network, the scanner needs to establish a large number of TCP connections with the target ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the in vivo and in vitro responses to nOle e 1 in allergic rhinitis (AR) and local allergic rhinitis (LAR) patients sensitized to olive tree pollen (OL) confirmed by nasal allergen provocation test (NAPT). METHODS Twelve subjects with AR, 12 with LAR and 12 subjects as control group (CG) were selected. Skin testing and NAPT with nOle e 1 were performed. Eosinophilic cati...

Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks have gained tremendous popularity in recent years. However, traversing Network Address and Port Translators (NAPT) may still fail in certain topologies. In this paper, we present Programmable Port Forwarding, a lightweight approach for allowing private hosts to fully participate in a Peer-to-Peer network. By extending the NAPT that a private host uses to conne...

Methods A prospective 10-year-follow-up study has been designed to evaluate 194 LAR patients and 97 healthy controls. All LAR patients had positive response to nasal allergen provocation test (NAPT) with at least one aeroallergen. Demographic and clinical questionnaire, spirometry, skin prick testing, and serum specific IgE antibodies to common aeroallergens were evaluated yearly, and NAPT were...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Adequate bowel preparation is key for the optimal quality of colonoscopy. The sodium phosphate laxatives used for preparation may induce gastric injuries. However, in vivo studies monitoring the effects of sodium phosphate on the gastric mucosa are currently lacking. We aimed to characterize the effects of sodium phosphate tablets (Colokit®; Mayoly Spindler, Chatou, Fr...

Due to the depletion of the public IPv4 address pool, the internes service providers will not be able to supply their new customers with public IPv4 addresses. Either they give private IPv4 addresses and use carrier grade NAT (CGN) or they move towards IPv6 and provide NAT64 service for the IPv6 only clients to reach the IPv4 only servers. In both cases they must use a stateful NAT/NAT64 soluti...

This paper addresses the security problems raised by the introduction of Mobile IP and Mobile IPv6 protocols into existing networks. First, a protocol-based analysis highlights several malicious attacks like masquerade, and denial of service. Then a classical network architecture is studied for the best placements of mobility entities from the security point of view. Firewalls and, possibly NAT...

Sodium pyrithione and zinc pyrithione (NaPT and ZnPT, respectively) are widely used as cosmetic preservatives and general antimicrobial agents. They have been shown to be active against fungal cell walls, associated membranes and bacterial transport processes. Investigations were undertaken into the effect of these antimicrobial agents on substrate catabolism and intracellular ATP levels using ...