Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has been attractive to the people who are working in the field of the network security due to its good potential for wireless sensor network security due to its smaller key size and its high strength of security. But there is a room to reduce the key calculation time to meet the potential applications, in particular for wireless sensor networks (WSN). It is wel...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic, perinatal and other life cycle events can be important determinants of the health status of the individual and populations. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC), perinatal factors (gestational age, teenage pregnancy and birth weight), family income and nutritional risk in children. METHODS A cross-sectional study in which 320 chil...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine if a chronic eccentric training intervention, i.e., negative work, could limit or even reverse sarcopenia and its related impairments and functional limitations. Is high-force eccentric training tolerable by elderly people and will it result in improved muscle size, strength, balance, and fall risk? METHODS 21 frail elderly subjects (mea...