Pinocchio – a Psychosomatic Syndrome

[Cardiac syndrome X from a psychosomatic point of view].

The aim of this paper was to explain the idea of cardiac syndrome X, particularly the association between emotional disturbances, somatoform disorder and syndrome X. Cardiac syndrome X is defined by the presence of angina-like chest pain, a positive response to stress testing and angiographically normal coronary arteriogram. It has been shown to occur in approximately 20 - 30 percent of angina ...

Acute tibial compartment syndrome secondary to psychosomatic disorder.

A case of a 28 years old Caucasian woman is presented with acute tibial compartment of her left leg secondary to repeated self inflicted soft tissue injuries, together with literature review on Dermatitis Artefacta.

A psychosomatic approach.

A short report on:∗ Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation

In this report, we aim to present a short description on the Pinocchio which is an efficient solution for Verifiable Computations (VC) and presented by Parno, Howell, Gentry, and Raykova in 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy [PHGR13]. In fact, Pinocchio is a practical implementation of SNARKs (Succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge) which are systems that allow a client to ask ...

A Real Little Game: The Pinocchio Effect in Pervasive Play

Mobile digital technologies and networks have fueled a recent proliferation of opportunities for pervasive play in everyday spaces. In this paper, I examine how players negotiate the boundary between these pervasive games and real life. I trace the emergence of what I call “the Pinocchio effect” – the desire for a game to be transformed into real life, or conversely, for everyday life to be tra...