Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) offered by cloud service providers is a paid facility that enables organizations to outsource their data to be stored on remote servers. Thus, SaaS reduces the maintenance cost and mitigates the burden of large local data storage at the organization’s end. However, the fact that data owners no longer physically possess their sensitive data raises new challenges to th...

In this position paper we discuss the application of personalization in persuasive technology design in light of the Personalized Design Process model (PDP-model). The PDP-model defines personalization as aligning a persuasive product to the end-user by stakeholder involvement (i.e. designers, endusers, domain experts and family/relatives) across the Problem Definition-, the Product Designand/o...

RATIONALE Pachydermoperiostosis (PDP) is a rare hereditary disorder that affects the skin and bones. PDP is characterized by periostosis, digital clubbing, and pachydermia. Previous studies demonstrated that increased prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) levels resulting from defective protein degradation pathways play a crucial role in PDP pathogenesis, and males were more commonly and severely affected th...

OBJECTIVE As the literature for the treatment of functional (psychogenic) movement disorders (FMD) is sparse, we assessed clinical outcomes in patients with FMD who underwent treatment with psychodynamic psychotherapy (PDP). METHODS A retrospective analysis of the data of patients with FMD who were referred for PDP from 2008-2014 at Emory University Medical Center was performed. RESULTS Thi...

Plagiarism is described as the reuse of someone else’s previous ideas, work or even words without sufficient attribution to the source. This paper presents a method to detect external plagiarism using the integration of semantic relations between words and their syntactic composition. The problem with the available methods is that they fail to capture the meaning in comparison between a source ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and concomitants of Parkinson disease (PD)-associated psychosis (PDP) in a population-based prevalent cohort. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Community-based study in southwestern Norway. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred thirty community-based PD patients were followed up prospectively for 12 years. Reassessme...

Photoluminescence (PL) phosphor can be divided into different types according to the different excitation wavelengths, and they have different applications. The region from 100 to 200 nm is the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region and the phosphors excited by VUV light are usually used for plasma display panels (PDPs) and Hg-free lamps.1 Nowadays, the PDP and liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) are the t...

Cloud storage is now an important development trend in information technology. However, information security has become an important problem to impede it for commercial application, such as data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In this paper, we propose designated verifier provable data possession (DV-PDP). In public clouds, DV-PDP is a matter of crucial importance when the client ...

the proline-rich β-casein was digested in vitro with trypsin, and the oligopeptides producedwere then isolated by rp-hplc and subsequently identified by amino acid analysis and ion massspectrometry. the peptide fractions from the complete digestion were then treated with purified x-prolyldipeptidyl peptidase (x-pdp) extracted from lactobacillus casei ssp. casei llg. two bitter peptides (f53-97a...

This article deals with a special type of ePortfolio, the Learning and Personal Development Planning Portfolio (PDP). It explores the technical challenges deriving from pedagogical requirements of PDP processes and discusses how semantic web technologies can contribute to an integrated “ePortfolio-PDP System”.