editor's introduction volume III, no. 4 the counseling psychologist

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Introduction from the Editors

Recent evidence suggests that the prevalence of various allergic conditions such as allergic rhinitis, food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is on the rise [1-3]. Over the last decade, there have been significant advances in our current understanding of these as well as other common allergic and immunological diseases. The purpose of this supplement entitled, A Practical Guide for All...

Introduction from the Editors

A dvances in solid organ transplantation have led to remarkable outcomes in patients that once had few options for their failing organ systems. Since 1988, it is estimated that more than 634,000 organ transplantations have been performed successfully. Today, more than 265,000 Americans are living with a transplanted organ, and in 2013, 28,954 solid organ transplants were carried out in the Unit...

Volume Editors

Since the announcement of the Differential Power Analysis (DPA) by Paul Kocher and al., several countermeasures were proposed in order to protect software implementations of cryptographic algorithms. In an attempt to reduce the resulting memory and execution time overhead, a general method was recently proposed, consisting in “masking” all the intermediate data. This masking strategy is possibl...

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The window-based stream join is an important operator in all data streaming systems. It has often high resource requirements so that many efficient sequential as well as parallel versions of it were proposed in the literature. The parallel stream join operators recently gain increasing interest because hardware is getting more and more parallel. Most of these operators, however, are only optimi...