Vet Med Today: Public Veterinary Medicine 1271 I has been estimated that 64% of the more than 1,400 recognized human pathogens are zoonotic, and that 73% of 177 emerging or reemerging pathogens have originated in animals. Recently, agricultural professionals in routine contact with animals have been shown to have increased risks of contracting various zoonotic infections, with infected individu...

JAVMA, Vol 234, No. 5, March 1, 2009 M than 90% of all laboratory-confirmed cases of rabies in Texas each year occur in wildlife species, with skunks and bats typically being the most commonly affected species. An analysis of reports of laboratory-confirmed cases of rabies in Texas revealed that skunks were the most commonly affected species during 14 of the 20 years from 1988 through 2007, and...

This essay focuses on the pioneer activities of public health dentistry in Brazil and its evolution in the 20th century with emphasis on the emergency of a landmark, the sanitary dentistry. Social and preventive dentistry and market dentistry, with reference to the main theoretical works representative of these trends, are presented. The essential characteristics of collective oral health (Braz...

In the real world, insurance is used to mitigate-nancial risk to individuals in many settings. Similarly, it has been suggested that insurance can be used in distributed systems, and in particular, in authentica-tion procedures, to mitigate individual's risks there. In this paper, we further explore the use of insurance for public-key certiicates and other kinds of statements. We also describe ...

An incidental error has occurred in the acknowledgment included in the footnote on the front page of the article (page 241). The correct version is presented below. We sincerely apologize to the authors for this inconvenience. We would like to thank Prof. Miroslaw Kutylowski and anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions to improve this paper. We also thank Ph. D Xiangfa Guo for his many...

Public Health Dentistry is a speciality which is targeted towards the larger benefit of community and society. Dental health surveys in specific population groups should be planned adequately and the data should be analyzed in such a way so that it may help in making strategies for the intervention to improve the existing status. This could be only done with the help of proper planning, analysi...

A special study conducted by public assistance agencies in 20 States in 1946 gave answers for thefirst time to questions about the types and amount of medical services the agencies were able to provide to assistance recipients and the costs of the various services. An article in the Bulletin for June 1952 discussed medical services for aged recipients. This article deals with the costs of such ...

In an intrusion-resilient cryptosystem [10], two entities (a user and a base) jointly evolve a secret decryption key; this provides very strong protection against an active attacker who can break into the user and base repeatedly and even simultaneously. Recently, a construction of an intrusion-resilient public-key encryption scheme based on specific algebraic assumptions has been shown [6]. We...

A certificate issued by a user u for another user v enables any user that knows the public key of u to obtain the public key of v. A certificate dispersal D assigns a set of certificates D.u to each user u in the system so that user u can find a public key of any other user v without consulting a third party. In this paper, we present a stabilizing certificate dispersal protocol that tolerates ...

We discuss here some of the issues that must be considered to build evidence in an appropriate way in a public-key infrastructure (PKI). Despite the fact that one of the most recurrent motivation by papers advocating the necessity of a PKI, is to support electronic commerce , all the new proposals of PKIs do not deene any procedure to specify which evidence must be collected and in which form, ...