nowadays enhancing critical thinking in learners is considered one of the foreign language teachers’ tasks due to its high position in foreign language classrooms. when it comes to selecting materials for language classrooms, there are obviously some criteria that teachers should apply. the present study aimed at a critical thinking based analysis of ten picture story books and ten folktales th...

eHealth is the concept of using the stored digital data to achieve clinical, educational, and administrative goals and meet the needs of patients, experts, and medical care providers. Expansion of the utilization of information technology and in particular, the Internet of Things (IoT) in eHealth, raises various challenges, where the most important one is security and access control. In this re...

Protecting the information access pattern, which means preventing the disclosure of data and structural details of databases, is very important in working with data, especially in the cases of outsourced databases and databases with Internet access. The protection of the information access pattern indicates that mere data confidentiality is not sufficient and the privacy of queries and accesses...