OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of hypernatraemic dehydration and to assess the hydration and nutritional state of patients in a large hospital for the mentally and physically handicapped; also to assess the efficacy of an intervention programme to reduce the prevalence of hypernatraemic dehydration in the hospital. DESIGN Prospective study of patients admitted with hypernatraemic dehyd...

Several studies state that there might be a difference in the physical development and the motor performance of the mentally non-handicapped children and those with intellectual and development disabilities. The aim of our research was to compare the two groups from these aspects. The study included the assessment of the physical development and motor performance of altogether 225 primary schoo...

With the proliferation of physical attacks that may compromise even the theoretically strongest cryptographic schemes, the need for affordable physical protection of cryptographic devices becomes more visible by each day. In this context, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), a promising new technology, provide a low cost technique to realize tamper-resilient storage for secret keys in integr...