Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) has several physical, psychological, and psychiatric symptoms. Regarding the psychological impact of MS on aspects of life, this study sought to examine the effect of group quality of life therapy on depression and anxiety in these patients. Methods: Two groups of 15 matched patients with MS were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups after co...

Background & Aims: Major depression is one of the common psychiatric disorders imposing negative effects on patients and their families. There are several treatment methods for depression. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of combination of cognitive behavioral group therapy, family psycho-education and medication versus medication alone on the improvement of major...

Threshold secret sharing (SS), also denoted as (t, n) SS, has been used extensively in the area of information security, such as for group authentication, cloud storage schemes, secure parallel communication and wireless multipath routing protocols. However, a (t, n) SS cannot detect any deceptions among the dealer and shareholders. Verifiable secret sharing (VSS) overcomes the weakness of (t, ...