Telecare medical information systems (TMIS) provides convenient health care services for patients in order to save the patients’ time and expense. The protection of user’s privacy and data security is significant over public communication. Recently, Lu et al. presented a threefactor based authentication protocol using elliptic curve cryptography. In this paper, we analyze the security of Lu et ...

Graz University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Petersgasse 12, A6 8010 Graz, Austria; Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Messeweg 11, D-38104 Braunschweig, 7 Germany, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, National Banana Research Program, 8 Uganda; Makerere University, Department of Agricultural Production, College of 9 Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Uganda and B...

The importance of " judicious use of language in regard to public communication of pesticide health risks " (Lu et al. 2006b) is clearly recognized and acknowledged in recent letters from Avery (2006) and Lu et al. (2006b). Their correspondence concerned perceptions of risk conveyed by the article " Organic Diets Significantly Lower Children's Dietary Exposure to Organophosphorous Pesticides, "...

A recent iterative procedure by Lu et al. for designing IIR filters is recognized as the Sanathanan–Koerner or Steiglitz–McBride iteration, which was proposed originally in 1963 and 1965, respectively, for system identification purposes. We re-examine some claims and issues related to Lu et al.’s paper1 in view of various properties that have been deduced for the Steiglitz–McBride iteration in ...

A deniable authentication protocol allows a sender to transfer an authenticated message to a receiver in such a way that the receiver cannot prove to a third party about the source of the message. In recent years, many deniable authentication protocols have been proposed. In 2005, Lu et al. proposed a secure and non-interactive deniable authentication protocol based on factoring. Although Lu et...

Several members of the organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP/Oatp) family of uptake transporters are expressed in the hepatocyte sinusoidal membrane in humans and preclinical species. The mouse liver specific Oatp is Oatp1b2, and the human homologs most closely related are OATP1B1 and 1B3. The substrate specificity of these transporters is broad, and the widely accepted view is that they...

We have read with interest the article by Lu et al. entitled "Association of excessive mobile phone use during pregnancy with birth weight: an adjunct study in Kumamoto of Japan Environment and Children's Study" published recently in the Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. Although this paper addresses a very challenging issue, it has some shortcomings. Mortazavi et al. have previousl...