Nothing about us without us” is a mantra likely originating in South Africa’s disability rights movement. It has since been adopted by many disability rights advocacy groups to communicate that individuals with disabilities should be at the forefront of any decision or policy-making that affects their lives. Historically, individuals with disabilities have been disenfranchised by societal syste...

INTRODUCTION Close interaction between clients and health care workers as regards disclosure, refusal of treatment and right to know status has been a subject of debate in legal and medical quarters. The objective of this study was to assess perceived rights of health care workers towards disclosure of HIV status in Lagos State in Southwestern Nigeria. METHODS This was a descriptive cross sec...

In the past few years, outsourcing private data to untrusted servers has become an important challenge. This raises severe questions concerning the security and privacy of the data on the external storage. In this paper we consider a scenario where multiple clients want to share data on a server, while hiding all access patterns. We propose here a first solution to this problem based on Oblivio...

In the past few years, outsourcing private data to untrusted servers has become an important challenge. This raises severe questions concerning the security and privacy of the data on the external storage. In this paper we consider a scenario where multiple clients want to share data on a server, while hiding all access patterns. We propose here a first solution to this problem based on Oblivio...

In many data broadcasting applications clients are grouped into several groups, each one located at a different region, with the members of each group having similar demands. This paper proposes a mechanism that exploits locality of demand in order to increase the performance of wireless data dissemination systems. It trades the received energy per bit redundancy at distances smaller than the r...

Lately there's a great deal of concern with the underprivileged people in our society. Our own university has taken a step toward relevancy by involving students in volunteer services. But volunteers, who function as parts of different community agencies that deal directly with poor people, have only touched the outer fringes of the problem by helping people on a small scale. This help is neces...

Abstract The realization of human rights standards depends in part on the commitment local actors. It can be argued that public service professionals such as social workers also regarded key players. possible role becomes imperative if these are working a policy context is not congruent with rights. If existing laws or policies cause maintain disrespect for rights, position to observe this havi...