Trust mechanisms are used in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to help well-behaving peers find other well-behaving peers with which to trade. Unfortunately, these trust mechanisms often do little to keep badly-behaving peers from entering and taking advantage of the network, which makes the resulting network difficult or impossible to use for legitimate purposes such as e-commerce. We propose trust ...

the largest areas of resistance poetry of the arabic literature. many poets poetry revolves around the axis. resistance poet tries to express his hope for freedom and spirit of defiance and resistance to induce people to enter the battlefields stir in the audience. looking at the palestinian resistance poetry, abdurraḥym maḥmūd will find one of the practitioners who stood alongside the resistan...

BACKGROUND Screening for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and individuals at risk of diabetes has been advocated, yet information on the response rate and diagnostic yield of different screening strategies are lacking. METHODS Studies (from 1998 to March/2015) were identified through Medline, Embase and the Cochrane library and included if they used oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and WHO-1998 diagn...

BACKGROUND NHS Health Checks is a national risk assessment prevention programme for all individuals aged 40-74 that reside in England. Through the systematic assessment of an individual's ten year disease risk, this programme aims to provide early identification and subsequent management of this risk. However, there is limited evidence on how socio-demographic factors impact on uptake and what ...

BACKGROUND Cervical, breast and colorectal cancer (CRC) screenings are universally recommended interventions. High coverage of the target population represents the most important factor in determining their success. This systematic review aimed at assessing the effectiveness of population-based screening programs in increasing coverage compared to spontaneous access. METHODS Electronic databa...