We show that a new measure of cognitive decline, that can be computed in longitudinal surveys where respondents perform the same recall memory tests over the years, is highly predictive of the onset of dementia. Using SHARE data, we investigate the way retirement affects cognitive decline over time controlling for age, education and other confounding factors. We find that retirement has a long-...

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Secure and scalable data sharing is essential for collaborative clinical decision making in telemedicine. Conventional clinical data efforts are often siloed, however, which creates barriers to efficient information exchange and impedes effective treatment decision making for remote patients. This paper provides four contributions to the study of applying blockchain technology to clinical data ...

Threshold secret sharing schemes encode data into several shares such that a threshold number of shares can be used to recover the data. Such schemes provide confidentiality of stored data without using encryption, thus avoiding the problems associated with key management. To provide long-term confidentiality, proactive secret sharing techniques can be used, where shares are refreshed or renewe...

Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990). Exploring the longitudinal nature of SHARELIFE, we construct measures o...

Google Internet query share (IQS) data for gastroenteritis-related search terms correlated strongly with contemporaneous national (R(2) = 0.70) and regional (R(2) = 0.74) norovirus surveillance data in the United States. IQS data may facilitate rapid identification of norovirus season onset, elevated peak activity, and potential emergence of novel strains.