The Number of Pixel Change Rate (NPCR) and the Unified Average Changed Intensity (UACI) are the two canonical statistics for measuring a cipher’s sensitivity to plaintext and key perturbations. Their hypothesis tests compare the measured scores...
PMM2-CDG is a rare disease, causing hypoglycosylation of multiple proteins, hence preventing full functionality. So far, no direct genotype–phenotype correlations have been identified. We carried out a retrospective cohort study on 26 PMM2-CDG...
The commensal Escherichia coli in the gut of pigs is a major reservoir of antimicrobial resistance and can result in possible transmission to humans through the food chain. Direct detection of E. coli from fecal samples is challenging and can be used...
In Brazil, blood donation is regulated by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and all States follow the same protocol for clinical and laboratory screening. Brazil is an endemic country for Chagas disease (CD), caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, and for leis...
Introduction: Although the global incidence of non-cardia gastric cancer (NCGC) is decreasing, there are limited data on sex-specific incidence in the United States. This study aimed to investigate time trends of NCGC from the SEER database to extern...
We propose an information-theoretic encryption scheme consisting of a four-dimensional chaotic map driver in combination with a prediction model using an LSTM neural net to generate a keystream, which was limited only after passing a test based on th...
In this paper, we propose a novel Dynamic Cipher Composition (DCC) based on multi-algorithm approach using the Library of Image Encryption Methods (LIEM). Unlike conventional static encryption schemes, the proposed DCC randomly selects and applies di...
Guaranteeing security in information exchange is a challenge in public networks, such as in the highly popular application layer Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. On the one hand, chaos generators have shown their usefulness in maski...
This paper suggests a novel one-dimensional (1D) map to address the limitations of traditional chaotic 1D maps. In contrast to traditional 1D maps, the proposed map has three control parameters a,
The majority of imaging techniques use symmetric and asymmetric cryptography algorithms to encrypt digital media. Most of the research works contributed in the literature focus primarily on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm for encrypt...
With the rapid expansion of digital communication and data sharing, ensuring robust security for sensitive information has become increasingly critical, particularly when data are transmitted over public networks. Traditional encryption techniques ar...
This study proposes a robust chaotic encryption framework based on a Fuzzy Rule-Based Sugeno Inference (FRBSI) system, integrated with high-level security analyses. The algorithm employs a dynamic mixture of Lorenz chaotic state variables, which are...
In the last decade, the communication of images through the internet has increased. Due to the growing demands for data transfer through images, protection of data and safe communication is very important. For this purpose, many encryption techniques...
The tick species Ixodes ricinus is the most widely distributed throughout Europe and serves as the primary vector for the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), which is responsible for Lyme borreliosis. The present study evaluated the pr...
Background: Efforts on a global scale for combating malaria have achieved substantial progress over the past twenty years. Two Central American nations have accomplished their goal of eliminating malaria: El Salvador and Belize. Honduras has decrease...
Chaos-based ciphers are widely proposed for sensitive images on 5G and Internet of Things links. Three faults recur: a key stream derived from the image that the receiver cannot reproduce, chaos that is claimed but not verified, and ciphertext that i...
H. pylori detection via the stool antigen test (SAT) requires 100 times more cells than nested PCR (NPCR) for a 454 bp amplicon, but is significantly more sensitive in identifying positive stool samples. To understand this contradiction, we developed...
In this study, a millimeter-scale N/P-doped carbonaceous catalyst was synthesized via facile carbonization of the N/P-doped resin at 800 °C (NPCR-800). This work aimed to investigate the performance of the NPCR-800 catalyst in heterogeneous catal...
Helicobacter pylori is the leading cause of chronic gastrointestinal tract diseases, with a worldwide prevalence of around 50%. For identification in medical practice, non-invasive methods such as the immunochromatographic test for antigen in stool (...
Background: Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is prevalent in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. The risk of tuberculosis activation is also high. The appropriate LTBI screening and treatment is required in this population. Meanwhile, whethe...
Bloodstream infections (BSI) carry high mortality, but traditional blood culture is too slow for urgent clinical needs. This study aims to develop a rapid point-of-care testing assay based on one-tube multiplex nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...
Background: Endotoxemia and oxidative stress may contribute to adverse body-composition changes in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis, but their relationships with adiposity and muscularity remain incompletely defined. We investigated whethe...
The virus discovered in 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China, which was later identified as SARS-CoV-2 and which spread to the level of a pandemic, put diagnostic methods to the test. Early in the pandemic, we developed a nested PCR assay for the detecti...
Equine piroplasmosis, an economically important disease of equids caused by the hemoprotozoan parasites Theileria equi, T. haneyi, and Babesia caballi, has a worldwide distribution. These parasites are transmitted by ixodid ticks. To improve the dete...
Rhipicephalus bursa, the primary vector of Babesia ovis, is also considered to transmit Theileria, Babesia, and Anaplasma spp. These claims are based on pathogen detections rather than experimental validation. To confirm vector competence, sterile ti...
Evidence of sarcocystid infection was investigated in samples of 16 penguins (Spheniscus. magellanicus), four Dominican gulls (Larus dominicanus) and two Chilean skuas (Stercorarius chilensis) found in Madalenas Islands, Chile, in 2017. Samples of sk...
Babesia ovis is a significant tick-borne parasite of sheep, capable of causing both acute disease and long-lasting, low-grade infections. Imidocarb dipropionate (IMDP) is commonly used against babesiosis, yet whether it can completely eliminate B. ov...
Background: Tick-borne protozoan parasites (TBPPs) cause significant problems for domestic animals’ health in Nepal. TBPPs are routinely diagnosed by labor-intensive blood smear microscopy. In Nepal, there are some reports of Babesia and Theile...
To address the security of digital images, this paper proposes a novel image encryption algorithm based on a six-dimensional memristive chaotic system. First, the algorithm uses the Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256) to generate a hash value, from w...
Early detection of diseases is vital for patient recovery. This article explains the design and technical matters of a computer-supported diagnostic system for eye melanoma detection implementing a security approach using chaotic-based encryption to...
Babesiosis, caused by Babesia ovis, is a major seasonal issue in sheep, particularly in countries like Türkiye with high Rhipicephalus bursa tick populations. Previous studies employing various methods such as microscopy, serology, or...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has suffered from COVID-19 disease as part of the global pandemic due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The economy of Saudi Arabia also suffered a heavy impact. Several measures were taken to help mitiga...
Background. In medicine, “compliance” indicates that the patient complies with the prescriber’s recommendations, “adherence” means that “the patient matches the recommendations” and “concordance”...
Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is associated with mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on maintenance hemodialysis. The correct diagnosis of PEW is extremely important in order to predict clinical outcomes. However, it is unclear w...
With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, information security has become a critical issue. To develop a highly secure image encryption transmission system, this study proposes a novel key g...
Secure image transmission is one of the most challenging problems in the age of communication technology. Millions of people use and transfer images for either personal or commercial purposes over the internet. One way of achieving secure image trans...
Equine piroplasmosis (EP) is a parasitic disease caused by Theileria equi (T. equi), Babesia caballi (B. caballi) and Theileria haneyi (T. haneyi). This disease is considered to be reportable by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). Real-t...
An increase in dietary protein intake (DPI) carries a risk with respect to increased sodium intake, which further leads to the development of cardiovascular morbidity in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Dialytic (DSR) and urinary sodium removal (US...
The swift advancement of information and communication technology has made it increasingly difficult to guarantee the security of transmitted data. Traditional encryption techniques, particularly in multimedia applications, frequently fail to defend...
Chlamydia are Gram-negative, intracellular pathogens colonizing the epithelial mucosa. They cause primarily atypical pneumonia and have recently been associated with chronic diseases. Diagnostics rely almost exclusively on serological methods; PCR te...
Chaotic maps that can provide highly secure key sequences and ease of structure implementation are predominant requirements in image encryption systems. One Dimensional (1D) chaotic maps have the advantage of a simple structure and can be easily impl...
Background and Objectives: The clinical value of HER2-low breast cancer (BC), defined by immunohistochemistry (IHC) scores of 1+ or 2+/ISH-negative without HER2 amplification, remains unclear in the neoadjuvant setting. This study aimed to determine...
Piroplasmids (Babesia spp., Rangelia spp., Theileria spp., Cytauxzoon spp.) are tick-borne apicomplexan protozoa that infect, depending on the species, erythrocytes and leucocytes in a wide variety of mammals and birds. The genera Bartonella and Borr...
Image streams carried by surveillance networks, clinical imaging systems and IoT sensing platforms are routinely stored and transmitted over channels their owners do not control, so confidentiality has to be provided by the data itself rather than by...
The vast majority of the world’s population is exposed to beta-herpesviruses during early childhood. After the primary infection, human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) can establish a lifelong persistence. The role of HHV-6 in the development of neurodegenerat...
A control method for the robust synchronization of a class of chaotic systems with unknown time delay, unknown uncertainty, and unknown disturbance is presented. The robust controller was designed using a nonlinear fractional order PID sliding surfac...
Most existing low-dimensional chaotic maps suffer from a limited dynamical complexity and dynamic degradation, which restrict their effectiveness in image encryption. To address this issue, a novel three-dimensional chaotic map (3D-TCM) was construct...
With the rapid growth of digital image transmission, ensuring data security has become increasingly important. However, existing chaos-based image encryption algorithms often suffer from insufficient chaotic randomness and weak integration between ch...
Many hacking incidents are linked to work files because most companies work with them. However, a variety of file encryption and decryption methods have been proposed. Existing file encryption/decryption technologies are under threat as hacking techn...
Nowadays, the images are transferred through open channels that are subject to potential attacks, so the exchange of image data requires additional security in many fields, such as medical, military, banking, etc. The security factors are essential i...
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