Private practice-driven research

Event Driven Private Counters

We define and instantiate a cryptographic scheme called “private counters”, which can be used in applications such as preferential voting to express and update preferences (or any secret) privately and non-interactively. A private counter consists of an encrypted value together with rules for updating that value if certain events occur. Updates are private: the rules do not reveal how the value...

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Transition to private practice.

f you are a regular reader of this section of the journal, you know that I am a cognitive therapist. You are aware, as well, that I have applied I this present-oriented model to aid the adjustment of patients diagnosed with cancer. My initial work in this area was accomplished at the Hollings Cancer Center of the Medical University of South Carolina, working alongside an enlightened oncologist....

Occupational therapists in private practice.

Although increasing numbers of occupational therapists are choosing to work in private practice, little data exist describing this sector of the profession. In the present study, experienced occupational therapists were asked about their moves into private practice, including (a) their motivation, (b) their preparation, and (c) their perceptions of the move's risks and benefits before and after...

Anticoagulant therapy in private practice.

THE DISCOVERY of heparin by McClean in 1916' and the identification of bishydroxycoumerin (Dicumarol) by Link and his co-workers in 1934 as the agent responsible for sweet clover disease in cattle,2 stimulated studies of the clinical use of anticoagulant therapy. The excellent work of Jorpes,3 Zilliacus,4 Barker5" 6 of the Mayo Clinic, and Wright7'8 of New York, and others,9' 10, n has crystall...