There are many cryptographic schemes with anonymity, such as group signatures. As one important property, anonymity revocation has been introduced. In such schemes, the fact of whether a signer’s rights have been revoked or not is important additional information. For example, if a third party knows that there are many revoked members in a company, then the company’s reputation may be damaged i...

Although patients frequently express a preference for oral medications, compliance to these medications varies. Patients often have difficulty adhering to their medication schedules due to lack of understanding, inadequate support, or unwelcome side effects. Fostering adherence to oral chemotherapy regimens improves patients' chance of survival and long-term quality of life. This randomized tri...

The objective of this study was to examine the information provided on comprehensive cancer centers' Web sites regarding clinical trials. Thirty-nine Web sites were visually inspected for four categories of variables: navigation to the clinical trial information, search functionality provided to the visitor, information content provided about trials, and the reading level of the information pro...

OBJECTIVE To resolve uncertainty as to the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) associated with sleeping in bed with your baby if neither parent smokes and the baby is breastfed. DESIGN Bed sharing was defined as sleeping with a baby in the parents' bed; room sharing as baby sleeping in the parents' room. Frequency of bed sharing during last sleep was compared between babies who died o...

There is a signature scheme which can aggregate two or more persons’ signatures to one, called an aggregate signature. In this paper, we propose a scheme of an aggregate signature which has additional functionality allowing any holder of a signature to designate the signature to any desired designated-verifier. By this functionality, no one other than the designated-verifier can verify the sign...

objective: to assess the availability of trauma care services in a district referral hospital of southern india. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed during 2013 in a tertiary healthcare centre in southern indian. a detailed assessment of trauma care services was done in a 400 bed speciality hospital which is an apex referral hospital in the public health system using a che...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking entails inhaling millions of fine particles with each puff, and it is intuitive that after smoking a cigarette it will take a certain time to washout residual tobacco smoke (RTS) from the lungs with subsequent breaths. OBJECTIVES To study the washout time of 0.3-1.0 microm particles after the last puff in 10 volunteer smokers by using equipment capable of measuring ...

To assess the relationship between passive smoking and asthma, we investigated (1) whether passive smoking was more prevalent among asthmatic than control children and (2) whether exposure to tobacco smoke was higher in acute asthma than in nonacute asthma. Three groups were recruited into a case-control study: 72 acute asthmatic children from the emergency room (ER), 35 nonacute asthmatic chil...

BACKGROUND Public policies are crucial for smoking prevention and improving health among the population. Despite the positive impact in Spain of the law for smoking prevention in 2006, there is room for further improvement in this area of public policy. The estimate of the mortality cost per pack of cigarretes is a crucial factor in cost-benefit analysis for policies aimed to reducing smoking i...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the perception of parents about secondhand smoking in their children's health. METHODS Ethnographic qualitative and quantitative study. We sought the point of view and understanding of the parents that were active smokers in relation to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and secondhand smoking. Mothers and fathers who are active smokers and that live with their children fr...