BACKGROUND It is a struggle to identify the most adaptive coping strategies with disease-mediated stress. Here, we hypothesize that intensity of coping strategies, including denial, in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), varies with type of renal replacement therapy (RRT). MATERIAL AND METHODS We enrolled 60 in-center hemodialyzed patients (HD) and 55 patients treated with continuou...

Disruption-tolerant network (DTN) is an intermittently connected network where the traditional end-to-end data communication between a source-destination pair is hardly possible. Instead, nodes opportunistically replicate the same packet several times and try to deliver them through multiple paths. Due to this multi-copy forwarding scheme, denial of service (DoS) attacks in DTN is believed to b...

For many years, privacy has not been considered as a critical issue in the field of software development. Recent events have led to discussions how the privacy of the user can be protected in information systems. While most approaches do only focus on increasing the security of the systems to protect private information against uncontrolled access, the aspect of enhancing privacy itself has bee...

OBJECTIVE Twenty-three million people, accounting for >58% of Medicaid enrollees, are enrolled in Medicaid managed care programs. Although the expectation of management in Medicaid managed care programs necessitates restrictions in use of some services sought by patients and families, the circumstances surrounding care denial and related access problems in vulnerable populations of children hav...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) could be a rapidly growing drawback. The multitude and sort of each the attacks and the defense approaches is overwhelming. This paper is a survey on the drawback of denial-of-service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and projected ways in which to deal with it. we tend to describe the character of the matter and look for its root causes...

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions.WSN is a fluorishing network that has numerous applications and could be used in diverse scenarios. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attack where a number of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causin...

Despite extensive evidence of climate change and environmental destruction, polls continue to reveal widespread denial and resistance to helping the environment. It is posited here that these responses are linked to the motivational tendency to defend and justify the societal status quo in the face of the threat posed by environmental problems. The present research finds that system justificati...

Today, internet and web services have become an inseparable part of our lives. Hence, ensuring continuous availability of service has become imperative to the success of any organization. But these services are often hampered by constant threats from myriad types of attacks. One such attack is called distributed denial of service attack that results in issues ranging from temporary slowdown of ...

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...