In the study, it was aimed to determine coping methods used by health school students for dysmenorrhea management. The population of cross-sectional and descriptive study consisted midwifery (N=280) studying at a public university. Volunteer (n=240) participants who met sampling criteria were recruited.Data collected with Descriptive Information Form, VAScale, Menstrual Symptom Severity Scale (...

Institut national de santé publique du Québec I ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This study is an initiative of the Quebec public health association (ASPQ) and could not have been completed without the financial support of the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS). The authors would especially like to thank Renald Bujold, President of the ASPQ, for having initiated this study, and the f...

A digraph D is strong if it contains a directed path from x to y for every choice of vertices x, y in D. We consider the problem (MSSS) of finding the minimum number of arcs in a spanning strong subdigraph of a strong digraph. It is easy to see that every strong digraph D on n vertices contains a spanning strong subdigraph on at most 2n− 2 arcs. By reformulating the MSSS problem into the equiva...

Purpose To evaluate whether corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) detects axonal degeneration and whether this is associated with retinal nerve fiber degeneration and clinical disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods Twenty-five patients with MS and 25 healthy control subjects underwent CCM, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and assessment of neurological disability using th...

The broadband wireless access (BWA) network, such as IEEE 802.16e, becomes more and more popular in recent years. According to the IEEE 802.16e specifications, mobile subscriber stations (MSSs) with energy constraints are allowed to switch to the sleep mode to reduce their power consumption. Considering a number of service connections on the MSS with different traffic characteristics and reques...

Cloud Computing is a popular computing technique via the Internet. The data owner outsources local data to the public cloud server to reduce the cost of the data management. Sensitive data has to be encrypted to ensure privacy before outsourcing. All traditional Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) schemes search only over encrypted data through keywords,hence they do not provide effective dat...

Molecular skin surface (MSS), proposed by Edelsbrunner, is a C2 continuous smooth surface modeling approach of biological macromolecules. Compared to the traditional methods of molecular surface representations (e.g., the solvent exclusive surface), MSS has distinctive advantages including having no self-intersection and being decomposable and transformable. For further promoting MSS to the fie...

Mobile computing systems are made up of different components among which Mobile Support Stations (MSSs) play a key role. This paper proposes an efficient MSS-based non-blocking coordinated checkpointing scheme for mobile computing environment. In the scheme suggested nearly all aspects of checkpointing and their related overheads are forwarded to the MSSs and as a result the workload of Mobile ...

Mobile Distributed systems (MDSs) are made up of Mobile host (MH), Base Station (BS) and Mobile Support Station (MSS). Among which MSSs play a key role in mobile environment. This paper presents a low overhead Proxy MSS based framework to handle the fault in mobile distributed Systems. In the proposed scheme, one MSS lot of proxy MSS works as per the workload. One proxy MSS handles the specific...

This edition of the Public policy and Health series is a summary of a report written by Pascale Bergeron and Stefan Reyburn from the Direction du développement des individus et des communautés of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), under the scientific coordination of Johanne Laguë. It was produced at the request of the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS)...