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Accepted on 06.02.2001. Code Number: ni03045 Sir, Tuberculosis as a cause of aseptic cerebral venous thrombosis, (CVT) has not been reported in literature. We report here two cases of primary [...]

Accepted on 07.12.2001. Code Number: ni03028 Subependymomas are highly differentiated slow growing gliomas. They are one of the few gliomas which are biologically benign. They are extremely rare in children. [...]

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can cause lesions of the gastrointestinal tract (enteritis) that are characterized by pathological changes similar to those seen in Crohn's disease (an inflammatory condition affecting the small intestine, typified by malabsorption of nutrients, diarrhea, malnutrition, and intestinal bleeding). It is thought that the gastrointestinal lesions in both NSAID-induced enteritis and Crohn's disease represent a common disease process, and that local changes in intestinal permeability are the earliest detectable indicator of this process. An animal model of NSAID-induced enteritis has been established and validated in which chronic administration of the NSAID indomethacin causes increased intestinal permeability and, ultimately, enteritis-like lesions. The administration of glucocorticoids and sulphasalazine, but not the antibiotic tetracycline, prevented the development of lesions when given prior to indomethacin treatment, and partially reversed the lesions when administered afterwards. These effects were mirrored in the results of both indomethacin and preventative treatment on tissue myeloperoxidase activity (a marker of inflammatory cell invasion). To investigate the role of the lipoxygenase/cyclooxygenase pathway in the development of enteritis, two thromboxane synthetase inhibitors (compounds that interfere with that biochemical pathway) were administered. As did glucocorticoids and sulphasalazine, these compounds prevented NSAID-induced enteritis when given prior to treatment, and partially reversed it when given afterwards. It is concluded that thromboxane synthetase inhibitors may be an important therapy for inflammatory intestinal disease conditions in man, and should be evaluated further. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

To find out the prevalence of clinical diagnosable neurological disorders three important symptoms were used for screening of patients. These were convulsions, paralysis and chronic headache. The field workers were explained how to enquire for these symptoms in the community. Those who were screened positive by them were later examined by the investigators. The prevalence of common disorders was found to be as follows, chronic headache was more prevalent in females above the age of 15 years, the prevalence being 30.9/1000 females. Paralysis, which was mostly represented by post polio residual paralysis, accounted for a prevalence of 7.2/1000 in males and 6.6/1000 in females. The prevalence of convulsions was 3.2/1000 in males and 8.5/1000 in females.

Threshold public key encryption is a cryptographic primitive where a secret key of an organization is distributed among special members called decryption servers (insiders) and a certain threshold number of insiders must cooperate to decrypt any ciphertext. Threshold public key encryption with an additional randomized algorithmTsplitis called resplittable threshold public key encryption (RTPKE). Cryptographic primitiveRTPKEwas introduced by Hanaokaet al.[Generic construction of chosen ciphertext secure proxy re-encryption, inCT-RSA, San Francisco, CA, USA, LNCS, O. Dunkelman, ed., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 349–364] in a generic construction of chosen ciphertext attack secure proxy re-encryption scheme. InMIST2013 conference Singhet al.[Lattice based efficient threshold public key encryption scheme, J. Wirel. Mob. Netw. Ubiquitous Comput. Dependable Appl. (JoWUA) 4(4) (2013), pp. 93–107] presented lattice-basedRTPKEscheme based on Regev's LWE [On lattices, learning with errors, random linear codes, and cryptography, inSTOC, Baltimore, MD, USA, H.N. Gabow and R. Fagin, eds., ACM, University of Wales, Cardiff, 2005, pp. 84–93] assumption. In this paper, we propose lattice-basedRTPKEscheme in the identity-based setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]