MISSED DIAGNOSIS AND OVERTREATMENT OF COPD AMONG SMOKING PRIMARY CARE POPULATION IN CENTRAL GREECE: OLD PROBLEMS PERSIST

Missed diagnosis and overtreatment of COPD among smoking primary care population in Central Greece: old problems persist

Eirini Stafyla, Ourania S Kotsiou, Konstantina Deskata, Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis Department of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece Background: The diagnosis of COPD is not always consistent with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) strategy in daily c

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Identity-Based Linkable Ring Signatures From Lattices

Linkable ring signatures is a useful cryptographic tool for constructing applications such as ones relative to electronic voting (e-voting), digital cashes (e-cashes) as well as cloud computing.Equipped with linkable ring signatures, e-voting, e-cash systems can simultaneously enjoy the privacy and the unreusability properties thanks to the anonymi

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Revitalising South African City Centres Through ICT

The majority of South African city centres are in a state of degeneration and need revitalising.The factors that contributed to the degeneration and how the integration of information and communications technology (ICT) can be used to revitalise them were examined in three South African city centres.The research was grounded in place theory.A surve

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