AIMS While strong correlations exist between medication adherence and health economic outcomes in type 2 diabetes, current economic analyses do not adequately consider them. We propose a new approach to incorporate adherence in cost-effectiveness analysis. METHODS We describe a theoretical approach to incorporating the effect of adherence when estimating the long-term costs and effectiveness ...

Over the years, formal methods have been developed for the analysis of security and privacy aspects of communication in IT systems. However, existing methods are insufficient to deal with privacy, especially in identity management (IdM), as they fail to take into account whether personal information can be linked to its data subject. In this paper, we propose a general formal method to analyze ...

Security issues in cloud computing are shown to be the biggest obstacle that could lower the wide benefits of the cloud systems. This obstacle may be strengthened when cloud services are accessed by mobile devices. Mobile devices could be easily lost or stolen and hence, they are easy to compromise. Additionally, mobile users tend to store access credentials, passwords and other Personal Identi...

This paper investigates the performance of two diversity techniques for relay networks with the Amplify-Forward (AF) protocol. A distributed Interleave-Division-Multiplexing Space-Time Code (IDM-STC) is compared with Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) in an OFDM based system. The aim of this paper is to figure out advantages and drawbacks of these two quite different approaches for various scenarios....

To cite: Castro Conde JR, González González NL, González Barrios D, et al. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2013;98: F493–F498. ABSTRACT Objetive To determine whether full-term newborn infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) present immature/ disorganised EEG patterns in the immediate neonatal period, and whether there was any relationship with maternal glycaemic control. Design and setting Cohort st...

The effects of indomethacin (IDM) and aspirin (ASA) on ACh (10 microM) -stimulated exocytotic events were studied in guinea pig antral mucous cells by using video optical microscopy. IDM or ASA, which inhibits cyclooxygenase (COX), decreased the frequency of ACh-stimulated exocytotic events by 30% or 60%, respectively. The extent of inhibition induced by ASA (60%) decreased by 30% when IDM or a...

OBJECTIVE Maternal glycaemia and anthropometry-derived newborn adiposity are strongly correlated. The children of mothers with diabetes are at greater risk of adverse metabolic health, and increased adiposity is a plausible mediator. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare adiposity in infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) and infants of mothers without diabetes (NIDM). DESI...

This contribution focuses on two-party negotiation over continuous issues. We firstly prove two drawbacks of the jointly Improving Direction Method (IDM), namely that IDM is not a Strategy-Proof (SP) nor an Information Concealing (IC) method. Thus we prove that the concurrent lack of these two properties implies the actual nonefficiency of IDM. Finally we propose a probabilistic method which is...

With the growing amount of personal information exchanged over the Internet, privacy is becoming more and more a concern for users. In particular, personal information is increasingly being exchanged in Identity Management (IdM) systems to satisfy the increasing need for reliable on-line identification and authentication. One of the key principles in protecting privacy is data minimization. Thi...

PHP354 Considering evidenCe From HealtH eConomiCs WitHin immunization deCision-making a semi multiPle Criteria deCision aPProaCH using tHe deCide tool Ultsch B, Wichmann O, Harder T Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany BAckground: mmunization decision-making (IDM) should draw on high quality evidence from various sources such as health economics (HE). Objective of this study was to test the a...