PURPOSE This study was conducted to determine the level of satisfaction of patients utilizing first-level health care facilities as a function of health system performance rating in Elazig province of Turkey. METHODS The study was conducted between December 2013 and March 2014 at the family health centers in the Elazig province center. For collecting the data in the cross-sectional study cond...

Biometric data is attractive in the eld of cryptography because it uniquely identi es and authenticates an individual. The biometric data itself can also be used as a key for encryption which can later be uniquely decrypted by the same person. We discuss some of the uses of biometric data in cryptography and, in particular, its use in the Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption scheme, a scheme which i...

  Background: Participation is mostly cultural and familial based, and there is not any assessment scales for evaluating kids’ participation in Iranian context, therefore the purpose of this study was developing children’s participation assessment scale for Iranian children.   Methods: Development of this scale occurred in two phases; phase I: planning: following r...

BACKGROUND Despite being an ancient practice that satisfies basic human needs, the use of wild edible plants tends to be forgotten along with associated knowledge in rural communities. The objective of this work is to analyze existing relationships between knowledge, use, and management of native wild edible plants and socioeconomic factors such as age, gender, family income, individual income,...

Unique Dualism Between Natural Science and Spiritual Healing Benjamin C. Silverman In the early Middle Ages, the excessive prevalence of illness and disease guided the practice and development of medical care. As a result of poor living conditions and the technical inadequacies of medieval medicine, disease was a constant menace in Europe and often controlled people’s daily lives. In response t...

PECOS is a collaborative project between industrial and research partners that seeks to enable component-based technology for a class of embedded systems known as “field devices”. Results so far include a component model for field devices and a composition language for specifying connections between software components. Here we investigate the application of Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) to the...

PECOS is a collaborative project between industrial and research partners that seeks to enable component-based technology for a class of embedded systems known as “field devices”. Results so far include a component model for field devices and a composition language for specifying connections between software components. Here we investigate the application of Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) to the...

The prevalence of temples in Taiwan is indeed a unique phenomenon. According to literature and news reports, the development traditional religions was not encouraged during Japanese Occupation Period Kuomintang administration. Rather, religious practice controlled derogated. This study investigated structural factors affecting flourishing well-known based on cultural policies from Kuomintang’s ...

BAC THIS DISPOSITION IS NOT CITABLE AS PRECEDENT OF THE TTAB AUG. 18, 99 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________ Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ________ In re Liebel-Flarsheim Company ________ Serial No. 75/094,858 ______ Donald F. Frei of Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. for LiebelFlarsheim Company. Jennifer Stiver Chicoski, Trademark Examining Attorney, Law Office 105 (...