Consumer Brand Engagement in Social Media: Conceptualization, Scale Development & Validation Abstract In the last three decades an influential research stream has emerged, which highlights the dynamics of focal consumer/brand relationships. Specifically, more recently the ‘consumer brand engagement’ (CBE) concept has been postulated to more comprehensively reflect the nature of consumers’ parti...

In proxy re-encryption, a proxy can transform a ciphertext computed under Alice’s public key into one that can be opened under Bob’s decryption key. In 2007, Matsuo proposed the concept of four types of proxy re-encryption schemes: CBE(Certificate Based Public Key Encryption) to IBE(Identity Based Encryption)(type 1), IBE to IBE(type 2), IBE to CBE (type 3), CBE to CBE (type 4). We observe that...

BACKGROUND Competency-based education (CBE) has emerged in the health professions to address criticisms of contemporary approaches to training. However, the literature has no clear, widely accepted definition of CBE that furthers innovation, debate, and scholarship in this area. AIM To systematically review CBE-related literature in order to identify key terms and constructs to inform the dev...

BACKGROUND Computer-based examinations (CBE) ensure higher efficiency with respect to producibility and assessment compared to paper-based examinations (PBE). However, students often have objections against CBE and are afraid of getting poorer results in a CBE.The aims of this study were (1) to assess the readiness and the objections of students to a CBE vs. PBE (2) to examine the acceptance an...

The certificate-based encryption (CBE) is a new PKC paradigm which combines traditional public-key encryption (PKE) and identity based encryption (IBE) while preserving their features. CBE provides an efficient implicit certificate mechanism to eliminate third-party queries for the certificate status and to simply the certificate revocation problem. Therefore, CBE can be used to construct an ef...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that clinical breast examination (CBE) rates may vary according to patient, provider and health care system characteristics. OBJECTIVE To examine the locations where U.S. women received a CBE and other general preventive health, and to examine predictors of location of receipt of general preventive health care (including a recent CBE). DESIGN Age-spe...

Hyperglycemia is a major risk factor for diabetic cataract formation. Effective regulation of glucose transport by the ciliary body epithelium (CBE) is pivotal to normal glycemic control in the anterior eye, which in turn affects the glucose level of the crystalline lens. The present study aimed to characterize the glucose transport mechanisms across the bovine blood-aqueous barrier (BAB) repre...

BACKGROUND Endotoxin has been reported to be associated with chronic bronchitis or emphysema (CBE) at high occupational exposures. However, whether levels found in domestic environments have similar effects is unknown. OBJECTIVES We aimed to study the association between house dust endotoxin and CBE in a sample representative of the U.S. population. METHODS We analyzed data from 3,393 parti...