Background Each year, an estimated 20 million people worldwide are in need of palliative care. The main diagnosis needing care is cancer, followed by cardiovascular disease and chronical obstructive lung disease. web-based telepalliation program digital platform (offering video consultation, treatment planning, patient-reported outcomes, chat forum, information on palliation) was developed thro...

Two common notions of security for public key encryption schemes are shown to be equivalent: we prove that indistinguishability against chosen-ciphertext attacks (IND-CCA) is in fact polynomially equivalent to (yet “slightly” weaker than) securely realizing the ideal functionality FPKE in the general modeling of cryptographic protocols of [Can01a]. This disproves in particular the claim that se...

Urban designers and landscape architects argue that physical characteristics of design elements in parking spaces have a direct influence in the perception of attractiveness and the sense of security of the users. Empirical research in human perception helps creating a solid conclusions and recommendations promoting quality of life. A lot of studies concluded that attractiveness and security we...

In this paper, we address the issue of automatic extending lexical resources by exploiting existing knowledge repositories. In particular, we deal with the new task of linking FrameNet and Wikipedia using a word sense disambiguation system that, for a given pair frame – lexical unit (F, l), finds the Wikipage that best expresses the the meaning of l. The mapping can be exploited to straightforw...

In this research, we investigate users’ subjective sense of security, which we call Anshin, the sense of security in Japanese. Our research goal is to create a guideline of providing Anshin about information security for users. In this paper, we report the relationship between users level of knowledge and Anshin factors about information security. We conducted a Web survey with 1030 subjects wi...