These brief reflections from 4 University of Cape Town (UCT) medical graduates who chose to make their careers in rural practice are written in narrative style to try to capture something of the lived experience of working in rural areas. Although still the career choice of a minority of UCT graduates, those who have chosen to practise in rural areas have found a solid base of competence and co...

In May 2005, hackers broke into Stanford University’s Career Development Center, gaining access to Social Security numbers, résumés, financial data, credit card information, and government information for 10,000 students and recruiters. In the same month, 380,000 students, alumni, faculty, employees, and applicants of San Diego State University were affected when hackers broke into four of the ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the female-headed household empowerment based on social-cognitive career counseling and its impact on promoting their career self-efficacy and future orientation (time perspective, anticipation of future consequences, planning ahead). This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest control group follow-up design. The statistical population of the...

In a functional encryption (FE) scheme, the owner of the secret key can generate restricted decryption keys that allow users to learn specific functions of the encrypted messages and nothing else. In many known constructions of FE schemes, such a notion of security is guaranteed only for messages that are fixed ahead of time (i.e., before the adversary even interacts with the system). This is c...

We describe two encoding methods: EMSA-PSS, for signing with appendix, and EMSR-PSS, for signing with message recovery. These encodings are appropriate for signatures based on the RSA or Rabin/Williams primitive. The methods are as simple and e cient as the methods in the current P1363 draft (based on X9.31 and ISO 9796), but they have better demonstrated security. In particular, treating the u...

There is a large gender gap in the probability of being “top job” mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings, and also have more job security better career trajectories. Recent literature has raised possibility that some this may be attributable to women not “leaning in” while men are overconfident their abilities. We use longitudinal data from childhood into mid-career construct measure overco...

In a functional encryption (FE) scheme, the owner of the secret key can generate restricted decryption keys that allow users to learn specific functions of the encrypted messages and nothing else. In many known constructions of FE schemes, security is guaranteed only for messages that are fixed ahead of time (i.e., before the adversary even interacts with the system). This so-called selective s...