Intel SGX enclaves provide hardware enforced confidentiality and integrity guarantees for running pure computations (i.e., OS-level side-effect-free code) in the cloud environment. In addition, SGX remote attestation enables enclaves to prove that a claimed enclave is indeed running inside a genuine SGX hardware and not some (adversary controlled) SGX simulator. Since cryptographic protocols do...

It is generMly agreed tha t coherent (lis('ourse consists of segments tha,t are related to one another. A number of researchers have a, rgm~d lbr the use of rhetorica,l[(~ri75] or coherence relations [I-Iol)79], and the rhetorical relations specified by R S'I? [MT87] have I)e(,~, used in s t ructur ing text [tlov88, MP90]. In this l)a.l)el" , we exa.mine rh(q.ori(:al relations in the cold.~,xt ...

The search for a ‘‘good’’ health system is constant. Even in countries where comprehensively organized national health systems have existed for over a century, the debate on how best to design them to ensure the effective financing, organization and provision of care is as lively and controversial as ever. During the last quarter of the 20th century many countries proposed a wide variety of swe...

As public health practitioners from the National Asthma Control Program (NACP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we read the essay “From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Health: the Example of Asthma” (1) with great interest. We agree with the authors’ hypothesis that evidence-based clinical medicine must be supplemented by asthma self-management support “that extends ...

introduction: it was often believed that countries with natural resource abundance would undergo the process of development with a more accelerated pace in comparison to other countries. the experimental results, however, demonstrate a higher rate of success for countries which lack the said resources. the paradoxical effects of the possession, or a lack there of, natural resources on different...

The term churning is defined by a multifaceted approach and quite complex concept that has been gaining relevance in the field of human resources, due to problematic loss investment, originating from voluntary exits worker-associated costs. This phenomenon direct result rising competitive job market, causing employees leave organizations carry with them all knowledge experience acquired startin...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted health systems with extraordinary changes in demand for services, which magnified underlying disparities the workforce. Initial workforce capacities were critical, as only have two options to increase level: increasing capacity among existing or mobilising/recruiting additional personnel. Workforce became a limiting factor an effective response, par...