The causal factors of mental disorder or maladjustment are either in the individual himself, or environmental. It is with this later case that the author chiefly deals, and calls to our attention some of the factors in our social organization which touch upon the problem of the formation of habits of adjustment, and which determine the nature of the environment to which the individual must adju...

That such an unnatural use (and so misuse) of one’s sexual attributes is a violation of one’s duty to himself and is certainly in the highest degree opposed to morality strikes everyone upon his thinking of it . . . However, it is not so easy to produce a rational demonstration of the inadmissibility of that unnatural use, and even the mere unpurposive use, of one’s sexual attributes as being a...

When searching carefully in contemporary documents, as letters, posters, diaries, written testimonies, we can learn a lot about what and how Mozart himself sang: from his first public performance as a 5-years old choir-boy in Sigismundus Rex Hungariae to the rehearsal of the unfinished Requiem at his home a few hours before his death, where he sang himself the alto part, forced to stop after th...

In this paper, we propose to replace the national identity card, currently used in many countries, by a personal device that allows its user to prove some binary statements about himself while minimizing personal information leakage. The privacy of the user is protected through the use of anonymous credentials which allows him to prove binary statements about himself to another entity without h...

Ulcers, and Abscesses. By W. Watson Cheyne, M.B., F.R.S. Pp. xii., 197. Edinburgh : Young J. Pentland. 1894. In this small book the author does not attempt to discuss the whole subject of the treatment of wounds, or the various plans which are used by different surgeons, but contents himself with describing in simple language the method which he himself employs, and has found to be the simplest...

Ring signcryption is an anonymous signcryption which allows a user to anonymously signcrypt a message on behalf of a set of users including himself. In an ordinary ring signcryption scheme, even if a user of the ring generates a signcryption, he also cannot prove that the signcryption was produced by himself. In 2008, Zhang, Yang, Zhu, and Zhang solve the problem by introducing an identity-base...