Despite improvements in the living conditions of population, there has not been a significant change income disparities. Since growth left-wing parties and political competition as per median voter hypothesis do stand Brazilian case, what could explain tenacity inequality country? To answer this, paper, grounded new institutionalism theory, employed process-tracing method to explore causes cont...

Statistical tests are very important in biomedical research.1 Several factors play a role in selecting the most appropriate statistical test.2 The misuse or inaccurate use of a statistical test may navigate the research in the wrong direction, and hence incorrect conclusions. Because it is probably the most commonly used statistical test, Student’s t-test is considered “the bread and butter” of...

This study assessed smokers' beliefs about nicotine and the safety of nicotine medications and examined how these beliefs influence the use of nicotine medications. The data for this paper came from a nationally representative, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of 1,046 adults (18 years of age and older) current cigarette smokers conducted between May and September 2001. Respondents were que...

Autoantibodies to cellular constituents are the serological hallmark in systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (1). They are often associated with certain diagnosis, clinical features, or disease activity and considered as clinically useful biomarkers. Autoantibody immunoassays have been used extensively for over 50 years with continuous changes in technologies and antigens used. While standard...

Online services are used for all kinds of activities, like news, entertainment, publishing content or connecting with others. But information technology enables new threats to privacy by means global mass surveillance, vast databases and fast distribution networks. Current news full misuses data leakages. In most cases, users powerless in such situations develop an attitude neglect their online...

School Operational Assistance (SOA) Fund is one of the educational funds in Indonesia. Based on APBN Financial Note, management SOA fund still not optimal, and there are many misuses by various parties. Therefore, it necessary to apply good governance principles fund. This study aims analyze effectiveness fund, which influenced governance, namely transparency, accountability, participation, res...

ABSTRACT In order to improve patient care, OMEDIT (Observatory of drugs, medical devices and therapeutic innovation) Alsace, conducted a study to develop a Preferential list of Drugs adapted to the Elderly (PDE list) in nursing homes. The study conducted from December 2011 to June 2012 was organized in 4 phases: 1) creation of a preliminary list of drugs from those currently used in nursing hom...

We revisit the traditional framework of wireless secret key generation, where two parties leverage channel randomness to establish a key. The essence in is quantify into bit sequences for generation. Conducting tests on such has been common practice provide confidence validate whether they are random. Interestingly, despite different settings tests, existing studies interpret results same: pass...

We introduce an abstraction known as an intelligent software decoy for protecting objects within a component-based architecture from egregious and malicious use by mobile agents. If an agent misuses or tries to circumvent the published interface specification of an object, then the object switches from its nominal operating mode to a deception mode. While serving as a decoy, an object attempts ...

The process through which an insider to an organization can be described or classified is lined within the orthodox paradigm of classification in which an organization considers only subject with requisite employee criterion as insider to that organization. This is further clouded with the relative rigidity in operational security policies being implemented in organizations. Establishing invest...