We present a new certificate revocation system for both on-line and off-line use, which is targeted to mobile-commerce systems. It allows to use certificates from any certificate issuer and to apply a proprietary revocation strategy. Our approach is well suited especially for location-aware services and mobile devices, because 1) our protocol reduces the amount of online communication, 2) the r...

CONTEXT Public Health Ontario (PHO) publishes various infectious disease surveillance reports, but none have yet been formally evaluated. OBJECTIVE PHO evaluated its monthly and annual infectious disease surveillance reports to assess public health stakeholders' current perception of the products and to develop recommendations for improving future products. DESIGN An evaluation consisting o...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate levels of public awareness and knowledge about early signs and risk factors of oral cancer among a group of dental patients in Turkey. METHODS AND MATERIALS This study included 1022 participants. Sociodemographic information of patients was obtained. A questionnaire about awareness and knowledge of oral cancer and early signs and risk factors related ...

INTRODUCTION Recent initiatives aim to improve public awareness of health disparities. However, little research has actually documented the US public's awareness of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities. We sought to determine 1) whether the US public is aware of racial, educational, and income disparities in health, 2) whether awareness differs across these disparity domains, and ...

This paper presents possibilities offered by public intelligent environment to foster learning through serendipitous interaction among uncoupled users. Four possible situations of how serendipitous interaction may occur and lead to learning activities are presented. In these situations capturing the right information, modeling it and providing awareness information back to the users plays a maj...

9.30-10.30 Room1 Awareness systems Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University and Computer Technology Institute Social connectedness: concept and measurement Daan van Bel Media Services in Ambient Environments Bashar Altakrouri and Andreas Schrader Awareness for Fostering Serendipitous Interaction in Public Intelligent Environments Ilaria Canova Calori Raising Awareness of Energy Consumption in ...