The Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) has numerous applications including in cryptography. In a striking example of this utility, we demonstrate how the CRT facilitates making one additive homomorphic encryption scheme viable and making another more flexible. First we show that the CRT may be used to turn an intractable problem into a tractable one. Specifically, using the CRT to replace a single...

Symptoms are important patient-reported outcomes (PRO), which help to evaluate the impact of diseases and treatments and assess quality of care. Thorough symptom assessment is a challenge, as patients in palliative settings are often polysymptomatic and easily fatigued. There is no consensus about standardization of symptom assessment in palliative medicine. The available research provides some...

The book covers such things as definitions, cost, safety, regulation, legal and ethical issues and a range of practical issues, diagnostic techniques, and risk-benefit assessments of complementary therapies and medicines. The main part of the book is organized by condition, outlining for each the CAM treatments available, ranked according to level of evidence of effectiveness, followed by a con...

Plant species have long been used as principal ingredients in traditional medicine. Different surveys showed that ethnomedicinal plant species used by the inhabitants of Jordan for the treatment of cancer are inadequately screened for their therapeutic/chemopreventive potential and phytochemical findings. In this mini review, traditional herbal medicines pursued indigenously with their methods ...

Son yıllarda yapılan çalışmalar hava kirliliğine maruz kalmanın çeşitli yaş gruplarında farklı hastalıklara sebebiyet verdiğini göstermektedir. Hava kirliliği, kardiyovasküler hastalıklar, solunum yetersizliği, kanserler ve obezite görülme sıklığı ile ilişkilendirilmektedir. Çeşitli kirletici partikül maddeler (PM2,5, PM10), azot dioksit kükürtdioksidin ayrı veya birlikte, popülasyonda artan il...