Background. Undernutrition occurs in approximately 2 of every 5 nursing home residents, negatively influencing their health and quality of life. The purposes of this study were to collect data about institutional meal preparation and food service practices that promote or retard adequate nutritional intake and to evaluate residents' food and food service satisfaction. Methods. The FoodEx-LTC, a...

After being introduced in 2009, the first fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme has created significant excitement in academia and industry. Despite rapid advances in the last 6 years, FHE schemes are still not ready for deployment due to an efficiency bottleneck. Here we introduce a custom hardware accelerator optimized for a class of reconfigurable logic to bring LTV based somewhat homomo...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph of order n. A closed distance magic labeling of G is a bijection l : V (G) → {1, . . . , n} for which there exists a positive integer k such that ∑ x∈N [v] l(x) = k for all v ∈ V , where N [v] is the closed neighborhood of v. We consider the closed distance magic graphs in the algebraic context. In particular we analyze the relations between the closed distance magic la...

Keir Pearson began his influential 1972 paper on cockroach walking with the statement that “a somewhat neglected aspect of insect neurophysiology is the nervous control of walking”. He then proceeded to outline a series of experiments that, together with his earlier work (Pearson and Iles, 1970), helped to shape a very large body of subsequent research that has shown how the central nervous sys...

Blum, Cucker, Shub and Smale have shown that the \P = NP ?" problem has the same answer in all algebraically closed elds of characteristic 0. We generalize this result to the polynomial hierarchy: if it collapses over an algebraically closed eld of characteristic 0, then it must collapse at the same level over all algebraically closed elds of characteristic 0. The main ingredient of their proof...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is important to staff management of township health centers (THCs), as it is associated with organizational performance, quality of care and employee retention. The purpose of this study was to measure job satisfaction level of THC employees in poor rural China and to identify relevant features in order to provide policy advice on human resource development of health...

The purpose of this clinical study was to determine the level of patients satisfaction after prosthodontic treatment. This cross sectional study was conducted in Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine, a total of 200 partially edentulous patients already restored with removable or fixed prosthesis participated in this study. Patient satisfaction was evaluated by Likert's scale. The Patients were...

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study examines whether availability of in-person professional interpreter services during emergency department (ED) visits affects satisfaction of limited English proficient patients and their health providers, using a randomized controlled trial. METHODS We randomized time blocks during which in-person professional interpreters were available to Spanish-speaking patient...