8 research outputs found
Pretty Understandable Democracy 2.0
The technological advance is entering almost all aspects of our everyday life. One interesting aspect is the possibility to conduct elections over the Internet. However, many proposed Internet voting schemes and systems build on unrealistic assumptions about the trustworthiness of the voting environment and other voter-side assumptions. Code voting -- first introduced by Chaum [Cha01] -- is one approach that minimizes the voter-side assumptions. The voting scheme Pretty UnderstandableDemocracy [BNOV13] builds on the idea of code voting while it ensures on the server-side an arguably practical security model based on a strict separation of duty, i.e. all security requirements are ensured if any two components do not collaborate in order to violate the corresponding requirement. As code voting and strict separation of duty realizations come along with some challenges (e.g. pre-auditing phase, usability issues, clearAPIs), the goal of our research was to implement Pretty UnderstandableDemocracy and run a trial election. This paper reports about necessary refinements of the original scheme, the implementation process, and atrial election among the different development teams (each team being responsible for one component)
Pretty Understandable Democracy 2.0
The technological advance is entering almost all aspects of our everyday life. One interesting aspect is the possibility to conduct elections over the Internet. However, many proposed Internet voting schemes and systems build on unrealistic assumptions about the trustworthiness of the voting environment and other voter-side assumptions. Code voting -- first introduced by Chaum [Cha01] -- is one approach that minimizes the voter-side assumptions. The voting scheme Pretty UnderstandableDemocracy [BNOV13] builds on the idea of code voting while it ensures on the server-side an arguably practical security model based on a strict separation of duty, i.e. all security requirements are ensured if any two components do not collaborate in order to violate the corresponding requirement. As code voting and strict separation of duty realizations come along with some challenges (e.g. pre-auditing phase, usability issues, clearAPIs), the goal of our research was to implement Pretty UnderstandableDemocracy and run a trial election. This paper reports about necessary refinements of the original scheme, the implementation process, and atrial election among the different development teams (each team being responsible for one component)
Effect of Ramadan on Emergency Department Attendances: A Retrospective Study
Aim: Changes in diet and lifestyle are often observed during Ramadan. These changes may affect visits to the emergency department (ED). However, it remains unclear how exactly visits to the ED are affected. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the effect of Ramadan on visits to the ED. Materials and Methods: Hospital records and files of patients aged >17 years who visited a university hospital ED just before, during and immediately after Ramadan from 2014 through 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Results: A total of 44146 ED visits were evaluated. It was found that ED visits were lower during Ramadan than during other months (p<0.001). Further, during Ramadan, there was a significant increase in ED visits one hour after iftar and one hour before sahur (p<0.001). The number of forensic cases significantly decreased during Ramadan (p<0.001). Conclusion: During Ramadan, the number of ED visits decreased and the timing of the ED visits was altered. There was a significant increase in visits one hour after iftar and one hour before sahur
Demographics of patients with heart failure who were over 80 years old and were admitted to the cardiology clinics in Turkey
WOS: 000468584300005PubMed ID: 30930455Objective: Heart failure (HF) has a high prevalence and mortality rate in elderly patients; however, there are few studies that have focused on patients older than 80 years. The aim of this study is to describe and compare the age-specific demographics and clinical features of Turkish elderly patients with HF who were admitted to cardiology clinics. Methods: The Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly Turkish population (ELDER-TURK) study was conducted in 73 centers in Turkey, and it recruited a total of 5694 patients aged 65 years or older. In this study, the clinical profile of the patients who were aged 80 years or older and those between 65 and 79 years with HF were described and compared based on the ejection fraction (EF)-related classification: HFrEF and HFpEF (is considered as EF: >= 50%). Results: A total of 1098 patients (male, 47.5%; mean age, 83.5 +/- 3.1 years) aged 80 years and 4596 patients (male, 50.2 %; mean age, 71.1 +/- 4.31 years) aged 65-79 years were enrolled in this study. The prevalence of HF was 39.8% for patients who were >= 80 years and 27.1% for patients 65-79 years old. For patients aged >= 80 years with HF, the prevalence rate was 67% for hypertension (HT), 25.6% for diabetes mellitus (DM), 54.3% for coronary artery disease (CAD), and 42.3% for atrial fibrilation. Female proportion was lower in the HFrEF group (p=0.019). The prevalence of HT and DM was higher in the HFpEF group (p= 80 years with HFrEF (p<0.01). Conclusion: HF is common in elderly Turkish population, and its frequency increases significantly with age. Females, diabetics, and hypertensives are more likely to have HFpEF, whereas CAD patients are more likely to have HFrEF.Turkish Society of CardiologyThis study was supported by Turkish Society of Cardiology
Demographics of patients with heart failure who were over 80 years old and were admitted to the cardiology clinics in Turkey
Objective: Heart failure (HF) has a high prevalence and mortality rate
in elderly patients; however, there are few studies that have focused on
patients older than 80 years. The aim of this study is to describe and
compare the age-specific demographics and clinical features of Turkish
elderly patients with HF who were admitted to cardiology clinics.
Methods: The Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly Turkish
population (ELDER-TURK) study was conducted in 73 centers in Turkey, and
it recruited a total of 5694 patients aged 65 years or older. In this
study, the clinical profile of the patients who were aged 80 years or
older and those between 65 and 79 years with HF were described and
compared based on the ejection fraction (EF)-related classification:
HFrEF and HFpEF (is considered as EF: >= 50\%).
Results: A total of 1098 patients (male, 47.5\%; mean age, 83.5 +/- 3.1
years) aged 80 years and 4596 patients (male, 50.2 \%; mean age, 71.1
+/- 4.31 years) aged 65-79 years were enrolled in this study. The
prevalence of HF was 39.8\% for patients who were >= 80 years and 27.1\%
for patients 65-79 years old. For patients aged >= 80 years with HF, the
prevalence rate was 67\% for hypertension (HT), 25.6\% for diabetes
mellitus (DM), 54.3\% for coronary artery disease (CAD), and 42.3\% for
atrial fibrilation. Female proportion was lower in the HFrEF group
(p=0.019). The prevalence of HT and DM was higher in the HFpEF group
(p<0.01), whereas CAD had a higher prevalence in the HFrEF group
(p=0.02). Among patients aged 65-79 years, 43.9\% (548) had HFpEF, and
56.1\% (700) had HFrEF. In this group of patients aged 65-79 years with
HFrEF, the prevalence of DM was significantly higher than in patients
aged >= 80 years with HFrEF (p<0.01).
Conclusion: HF is common in elderly Turkish population, and its
frequency increases significantly with age. Females, diabetics, and
hypertensives are more likely to have HFpEF, whereas CAD patients are
more likely to have HFrEF