BACKGROUND Reporting of the clinical significance of observed changes is recommended when publishing mental health treatment outcome studies and is increasingly used in routine outcomes monitoring systems. Since recovery rates vary with the method chosen, we investigated the validity of classifications of clinically significant change when the Jacobson-Truax method and the Hageman-Arrindell met...

For providing mobility services for users through the global Internet, Mobile IP (MIP) has been standardized by IETF. Since conventional MIP has been investigated without the support of the security, IETF suggests that the current servers capable of performing the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) be used for secure services. However the quality of service (QoS) may be degrade...

N independent sources choose their provider depending on the perceived costs associated with each provider. The perceived cost is the sum of the price and quality of service proposed by the provider coefficiented by the source sensitivity to the quality of service. The source chooses the smallest cost provider or refuses to subscribe if all the perceived costs are above her maximum admissible o...

In this paper we will investigate techniques to minimize the energy consumed by a secure wireless session without compromising the security of the session. While it has been shown in [8] that compressing the session negotiation messages, the protocol header, and the data reduces the energy consumed by a secure session [8], in this paper we show that matching the block size of compression to the...

BACKGROUND The oral health-related quality of life indicators are increasingly used to measure the impact of the oral conditions on quality of life. One of the most used indicators is the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14), but it has never been applied in Iran. The aim of this study was to validate the usage of OHIP-14 among Iranians. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed in Kerman...