NICE: an evolving institution

NICE: an evolving institution

When the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), or the National Institute for Clinical Excellence as it was then known, was first established in 1999 its responsibilities were twofold. It was charged with providing guidance to the National Health Service (NHS) on the use of (mainly new) health technologies (so-called technology appraisals) on the basis of their clinical a...

Diphtheria in an Institution

For several years we have had frequent small outbreaks of diphtheria. In *924, there were fifteen apparently separate outbreaks with a total of twenty eases, and in the early part of 1925, there were at different times six patients <ind eleven members of the staff down with mild attacks of the same thing. Of the whole thirty-seven cases, only two were serious, but it was obvious that at any tim...

neurotrauma as an evolving indication for neuromodulation

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An Efficient NICE-Schnorr-Type Signature Scheme

Recently there was proposed a novel public key cryptosystem [17] based on non-maximal imaginary quadratic orders with quadratic decryption time. This scheme was later on called NICE for New Ideal Coset Encryption [6]. First implementations show that the decryption is as efficient as RSA-encryption with e = 2 +1. It was an open question whether it is possible to construct comparably efficient si...

Apec as an International Institution