Social networking sites, blogs, photo and video galleries, and other content publishing tools are enabling Internet users to share their experiences and opinions with larger audiences more easily than ever before. With this increased sharing comes a pressing need for access-control policies and mechanisms to protect users’ privacy and safety. Traditional access-control mechanisms, however, are ...

Spatio-Temporal Role-based access control (STRBAC) has been acknowledged as an effective mechanism for specifying access control policies for cyber systems. However, it is not yet clear how a STRBAC model can be used for specifying access control policies for physical systems. In this paper, we propose a Spatio-Temporal Role Based Access Control (STRBAC) system for modeling the physical access ...

Background and aim: Dental caries is one of the most common childhood diseases worldwide. The implementation of strategies that facilitate the prevention of early dental caries and interrupt its progression has been recently advocated. It has been reported that casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP) derived from casein reduces tooth demineralization and enhances the reminer...

The experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of Alisma canaliculatum with probiotics (ACP) on the growth performance, meat composition, oxidative stability, and fatty acid composition of broiler meat. Sixteen probiotic strains were tested for their levels of acid, bile, and heat tolerance. Among them, Lactobacillus acidophilus KCTC 3111, Enterococcus faecium KCTC 2022, Bacillus sub...

OBJECTIVES To explore seriously ill, older hospitalised patients' and their family members' perspectives on the barriers and facilitators of advance care planning (ACP). METHODS We used qualitative descriptive study methodology to analyse data from an interviewer administered, questionnaire-based, Canadian multicentre, prospective study of this population. RESULTS Three main categories desc...