In today’s world the number of online applications are increasing. With the increasing number of online applications the threat to the security of these applications is also increasing. The increasing number of cyber attacks have challenged the security of these online applications. DoS is one such type of cyber-attack which aims at making the website and the resources of the server unavailable...

Phospholipids are essential components of cell membrane, which consists of variety of phospholipid molecular species with different chain lengths, unsaturated bound positions and polar groups. A mass spectrometer (MS) is widely used to identify and to quantify phospholipid molecular species in a mixture due to its high sensitivity. To observe expression difference among organs or in time-series...

BACKGROUND Illness and the medical expenditure that follows have a profound impact on the well-being of individuals and households. China is a huge country with significant regional differences. The goal of this study is to investigate the associations of illness and medical expenditure with other categories of household expenditures, with special attention paid to the differences in observatio...

OBJECTIVE To identify and compare learning activities that students associate with high quality teaching across clerkships. METHODS For six months, 110 third year medical students recorded data on learning activities and teaching quality using personal digital assistants (PDAs) during five different required clinical clerkships. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess th...

BACKGROUND Health promotion and prevention activities should tackle health inequalities to reduce disparities in health among disadvantaged populations. This study aimed to assess the extent to which the Italian Regions considered health inequalities during the planning of prevention activities, to detect geographical differences and to identify the possible determinants of differences in atten...

Research suggests that there is a relationship between the health of urban populations and the availability of green and water spaces in their daily environment. In this paper, we analyze the potential intra-urban relationships between children's health determinants and outcomes and natural areas in Berlin, Germany. In particular, health indicators such as deficits in viso-motoric development i...