A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

even though the use of enzymes as useful analytical reagents when immobilized onto a transducer such as an electrochemical device has been reported in the literature for nearly two decades, the direct, i.e. unmediated electrochemistry of enzymes is, nevertheless, a rather recent development. efforts will be made to introduce the fundamental basis for protein-surface interactions with emphasis o...

The ability to operate switches in order to communicate more effectively and to control leisure activities has greatly enriched Pam's life. The switches have opened up a world of entertainment that she can enjoy independently. Both her desire and her ability to explore and master her environment have increased--a major thrust of functional independence so important in occupational therapy.

This study investigated the relationships between self-rated attractiveness and self-reported sexual response changes (over the past decade) and current sexual satisfaction in 307 heterosexual, midlife women. Results indicated that regardless of the woman's specific age, she was more likely to consider herself more attractive when she was 10 years younger and her self-perceived attractiveness d...

Aging has a powerful impact on the quality of relationship and sexual functioning. The psychological impact of aging after midlife is a particularly timely topic, given improved medical and psychological understanding of sexuality in both women and men as well as significant improvement in the conceptualization of female sexuality and evolving treatment advances for female sexual dysfunctions. ...

Abstract In this paper we present a sufficient condition for the existence of a solution for an equilibrium problem on an Hadamard manifold and under suitable assumptions on the sectional curvature, we propose a framework for the convergence analysis of a proximal point algorithm to solve this equilibrium problem. Finally, we offer an application to the necessity for an agent to escape to a suc...

objective: hypoactive sexual desire disorder (hsdd) is a common sexual problem among women. sexual interest and desire inventory –female (sidi-f) has been widely validated and used to measure sexual desire in women. the aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the persian version of sidi-f for iranian population. method: this was a methodological study on the psychometr...