One-time Programs Research Articles

Discussion Guide for the Rushton Article

Discussion Guide for the Rushton Article

Responding flexibly to the complex problem of chronic pelvic pain: Incorporating patient needs into program development.

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is both common and disabling, and access to interdisciplinary care is limited. Patient education programs may represent a pragmatic approach to delivering interdisciplinary care, but to date the specific educational needs of patients with CPP are unknown. We surveyed 136 patients at a tertiary CPP treatment center to identify their educational needs and preferences; 71 (52%) completed surveys. Based on the results, we developed an interdisciplinary educational program, including expert presentations and an extensive participant handbook. We modified our program to a webinar format following the advent of COVID-19. Participants registered for the webinar only or for our study involving completion of three measures of pain-related functioning before and 2 months after the webinar. Our survey results indicated that CPP patients were most interested in learning about the diagnosis and treatment of CPP, coping with CPP, and diet and exercise in the context of CPP; patients also indicated a preference for brief, one-time programs. Of the 164 webinar participants, 64 (39%) enrolled in the study and completed baseline measures; 20 (31%) of those returned follow-up measures 2 months after the webinars. Participants who completed follow-up measures reported significant reduction in pain-related interference; no other significant differences were observed. Participants who completed feedback surveys were positive in their evaluation of the program. Patients with CPP desire more knowledge about their complex symptoms. Addressing their specific needs through educational supports may enhance their ability to manage their symptoms independently. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

A Study on the Building of Lifelong Education Platforms Based on Digital Literacy Education

Digital transformation is being promoted most rapidly by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The tools (language) that move and communicate the world are changing. Lifelong education must also learn new languages and communicate through them. It is an era in which the level of national digital literacy is the adaptability and competitiveness of the future society. In line with these times, studies on various literacy education and programs are being actively conducted in the field of lifelong education. However most of them are fragmentary event education or one-time programs. It is difficult to say that it is an education for continuous improvement of digital literacy capabilities. Lifelong education must realize social responsibility and public values. And we must foster the right citizens of the future society. For this it is necessary to change the paradigm of lifelong education and change communication tools and contents. In this study we propose a methodology for establishing a lifelong education platform based on digital literacy education.

Probabilistic one-time programs using quantum entanglement

Quantum technology allows for unparalleled levels of data and software protection. Probabilistic one-time programs harness these capabilities for quantum-assisted classical computations by encoding classical software in small quantum states resulting in computer programs that can be used only once. Such self-destructing one-time programs facilitate a variety of applications reaching from software distribution to one-time delegation of signature authority. Whereas previous experiments demonstrated the feasibility of such schemes, the practical applications were limited. Here we present an improved protocol for one-time programs that resolves major drawbacks of previous schemes, by employing entangled qubit pairs. This results in four orders of magnitude higher count rates and the ability to execute a program long after the quantum information exchange has taken place. We implement a one-time delegation of signature authority over an underground fiber link between university buildings in downtown Vienna, emphasizing the compatibility of our scheme with prepare-and-measure quantum internet networks.

Towards Quantum One-Time Memories from Stateless Hardware

A central tenet of theoretical cryptography is the study of the minimal assumptions required to implement a given cryptographic primitive. One such primitive is the one-time memory (OTM), introduced by Goldwasser, Kalai, and Rothblum [CRYPTO 2008], which is a classical functionality modeled after a non-interactive 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer, and which is complete for one-time classical and quantum programs. It is known that secure OTMs do not exist in the standard model in both the classical and quantum settings. Here, we propose a scheme for using quantum information, together with the assumption of stateless (i.e., reusable) hardware tokens, to build statistically secure OTMs. Via the semidefinite programming-based quantum games framework of Gutoski and Watrous [STOC 2007], we prove security for a malicious receiver making at most 0.114n adaptive queries to the token (for n the key size), in the quantum universal composability framework, but leave open the question of security against a polynomial amount of queries. Compared to alternative schemes derived from the literature on quantum money, our scheme is technologically simple since it is of the "prepare-and-measure" type. We also give two impossibility results showing certain assumptions in our scheme cannot be relaxed.

Cryptography with Disposable Backdoors

Backdooring cryptographic algorithms is an indisputable taboo in the cryptographic literature for a good reason: however noble the intentions, backdoors might fall in the wrong hands, in which case security is completely compromised. Nonetheless, more and more legislative pressure is being produced to enforce the use of such backdoors. In this work we introduce the concept of disposable cryptographic backdoors which can be used only once and become useless after that. These exotic primitives are impossible in the classical digital world without stateful and secure trusted hardware support, but, as we show, are feasible assuming quantum computation and access to classical stateless hardware tokens. Concretely, we construct a disposable (single-use) version of message authentication codes, and use them to derive a black-box construction of stateful hardware tokens in the above setting with quantum computation and classical stateless hardware tokens. This can be viewed as a generic transformation from stateful to stateless tokens and enables, among other things, one-time programs and memories. This is to our knowledge the first provably secure construction of such primitives from stateless tokens. As an application of disposable cryptographic backdoors we use our constructed primitive above to propose a middle-ground solution to the recent legislative push to backdoor cryptography: the conflict between Apple and FBI. We show that it is possible for Apple to create a one-time backdoor which unlocks any single device, and not even Apple can use it to unlock more than one, i.e., the backdoor becomes useless after it is used. We further describe how to use our ideas to derive a version of CCA-secure public key encryption, which is accompanied with a disposable (i.e., single-use, as in the above scenario) backdoor.

A Study of Intervention Strategy and Efficiency of Therapeutic Recreation Program for Family Supporting Senior with Dementia

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to seek the intervention strategy of therapeutic recreation by practice analysis of support program usage for dependents of the elderly patients with dementia. Methods/Statistical analysis: The survey was conducted in 205 subjects and personal interviews were conducted in 20 subjects by random sampling. For the investigation of program participations and needs, the programs in 10 family support centers currently operating (refer to Project Report in 2014 and web-site) and the tools developed by this investigator were used upon literature review and classifying the questionnaires. Findings: The study results are as follows. First, the limitation of the family support program was detected demonstrating low mean values in the family strength, family requests, and partnership of family and specialist. Second, it could understand that the participants’ needs did not apply to the programs entirely in the practice domain of family support program participation since the needs of family support programs were shown the highest in hobby and leisure activities. Third, top three reasons of difficulty in participating in the program were “there are few to provide (operate) the program,” followed by “there are many one-time programs,” and “there is no favorite program,” in the domain of activation plan for family support program. Improvements/Applications: A family support program can provide the empirical data for expanding the scope of social welfare. It will also contribute to the understanding, specialization, and institutionalization of the potential value of the therapeutic recreation which has not yet established as a specialized field in South Korea.

Quantum advantage for probabilistic one-time programs

One-time programs, computer programs which self-destruct after being run only once, are a powerful building block in cryptography and would allow for new forms of secure software distribution. However, ideal one-time programs have been proved to be unachievable using either classical or quantum resources. Here we relax the definition of one-time programs to allow some probability of error in the output and show that quantum mechanics offers security advantages over purely classical resources. We introduce a scheme for encoding probabilistic one-time programs as quantum states with prescribed measurement settings, explore their security, and experimentally demonstrate various one-time programs using measurements on single-photon states. These include classical logic gates, a program to solve Yao’s millionaires problem, and a one-time delegation of a digital signature. By combining quantum and classical technology, we demonstrate that quantum techniques can enhance computing capabilities even before full-scale quantum computers are available.

Hierarchy for classes of garbling schemes

The methods for secure outsourcing and secure one-time programs have recently been of great research interest. Garbling schemes are regarded as a promising technique for these applications while Bellare, Hoang and Rogaway introduced the first formal security notions for garbling schemes in [3, 4]. Ever since, even more security notions have been introduced and garbling schemes have been categorized in different security classes according to these notions. In this paper, we introduce new security classes of garbling schemes and build a hierarchy for the security classes including the known classes as well as classes introduced in this paper.

Campus programming for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: An investigation of stigma, help-seeking, and resource knowledge

This study investigated the effectiveness of on-campus programming for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAwareness Week). The aim was to investigate the impact of a campus-wide, week-long series of psycho-educational and awareness programs designed for NEDAwareness Week. The study sought to determine whether students who attended programming, when compared to students who had not attended campus programming, would report (a) higher levels of help-seeking behaviors, (b) lower levels of stigma, and (c) greater knowledge of available on-campus resources for students experiencing body image issues and eating disorders. Results indicated that students who attended one-time intervention programs knew more about available on-campus resources for students experiencing body image issues and eating disorders than students who did not attend programming. The findings suggest that students who attended one-time intervention programs for NEDAwareness Week had higher levels of factual knowledge of available campus resources for body image issues and eating disordered behaviors than students who did not attend campus programming for NEDAwareness Week.

Applications of Music Therapist-Composed Songs in Creating Participant Connections and Facilitating Goals and Rituals During One-Time Bereavement Support Groups and Programs

ABSTRACT: As members of interdisciplinary bereavement and grief counseling teams, music therapists may have opportunities to be involved in designing and facilitating one-time grief-related support groups and programs. aim of these groups and programs is not to replace or to substitute for on-going or in-depth grief counseling for persons. Rather, they are designed as one-time group experiences to aid in the grieving processes of persons who have experienced the death of a loved one. These participants may or may not have taken part previously in organized grief therapy. These one-time programs may take place in health, professional, school, and community-at-large facilities and settings. This article describes how music therapist-composed original songs have been used to help meet the goals of such programs. article begins with a brief overview of some common tasks and processes of grieving. An example of how a music therapy department supports the bereavement department in an interdisciplinary approach to designing and implementing such programs at a hospice organization in the southeastern U.S. is described. Several different types of one-time grief-related programs and groups are outlined. An introduction to the use of precomposed original songs in one-time brief grief programs is given, focusing on the use of song metaphors to create participant connections, introduce and explore session themes and topics, and in particular to help facilitate one-time group rituals. Examples of four original therapist-composed songs using metaphor in group programs are shared. Grieving has been described as an active process of coping directed at remaking reality (Attig, 1991, 1996, 2004). events that lead to or result in a person experiencing grief may include a variety of types of personal losses (Bright, 2002). Among those losses may be the death of a family member, friend, loved one, or other person of significance. term bereaved is often used to describe one who has experienced the death of a loved one, including a significant person such as a family member or other loved one (Katz, 1994; O'Toole, 1985; Walter, 2003). Each person's grieving experiences are unique, and there can be enormous variation in individual responses to loss (Bright, 1999; Hedtke & Winslade, 2004). However, there are some common aspects, and phases of grieving that have been described in the bereavement literature (Krout, 2003). In addressing commonalities in the grieving processes of persons, O'Toole (1985) outlines what she termed The Grief Wheel. She describes five progressive phases of grieving following death of a significant person in one's life (which would be the event resulting in the person entering the wheel). A wheel was used to suggest that a person enters the grief process in motion (from their life before the loss) and exits again into their resumed healthy life following their grief process. These phases include loss, shock, protest, disorganization, and reorganization (O'Toole, 1985). In another model, Worden (2001) describes what he termed the Four Tasks of Grief. It is interesting that the author used the term tasks, which may imply that grieving requires attention and work-it doesn't just happen. Worden's tasks include: 1. Accept the reality of the loss 2. Experience the pain of the grief 3. Adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing 4. Withdraw emotional energy from the deceased and reinvest without the guilt. Rando (1984) delineated Six of Grieving. Again, these R's were described as active processes, and include: 1. Recognize the loss-acknowledge the death and understand its ramifications 2. React to the separation of the loss-both the primary and resulting secondary losses 3. Recollect and re-experience the deceased and the relationship-review and remember 4. Relinquish attachments to the deceased and the old assumptive world 5. …

Tribal Rhythms®: A Thematic Approach to Integrating the Arts into the Curriculum

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Barbara Beckwith, W. Thompson Garfield, Charles Holley, J. Curtis Jones, Susan Porter; Tribal Rhythms®: A Thematic Approach to Integrating the Arts into the Curriculum. Harvard Educational Review 1 September 1991; 61 (3): 252–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.61.3.x8232150hv15pg0k Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest Search

Break Up the Programming Groups?

As one who has general direction over an “in-house programming group” as well a Management Science department in a large corporation, I have come to the conclusion that there is no one best organization of programming activity—even for Engineering, Research or Management Science. Let us restrict our consideration to programming support for Management Science. There are two types of extreme environments, among countless others, that one can visualize: (1) The Management Scientists use no real data, request programming assistance for “one-time programs” and solve particular problems with no attempt to build problem-solving systems, (2) The Management Scientists make extensive use of real data and attempt to develop, perhaps in a modular fashion, problem-solving systems. I doubt that there is any Management Science department that corresponds to either of the extremes listed above. My experience tells me, however, that there are tendencies on the part of Management Science departments to move in one or the other of the above directions.