One of the fundamental challenges in anti-doping is identifying athletes who use, or are at risk of using, prohibited performance enhancing substances. The growing trend to employ a forensic approach to doping control aims to integrate information from social sciences (e.g., psychology of doping) into organised intelligence to protect clean sport. Beyond the foreseeable consequences of a positi...

This contribution attempts to provide a broad perspective to the psychological study of neuroenhancement (NE). It departs from the assumption that, as the use of performance enhancing substances in sport, the use of substances with the aim of improving one's cognitive, motivational and affective functioning in academic domains is a goal-directed behavior. As such, its scientific study may very ...

The increasing number of linkable vendor-operated databases present unique threats to customer privacy and security intrusions, as personal information communicated in online transactions can be misused by the vendor. Existing privacy enhancing technologies fail in the event of a vendor operating against their stated privacy policy, leading to loss of customer privacy and security. Anonymity ma...

A fundamental privacy principle, which is enforced in many privacy-enhancing technologies, is data minimization, i.e. the amount of personal data that are revealed to others and extend to which they are processed should be minimized. Privacy-enhancing identity management is important for processing personal data, the purpose of which is to protect personal data. This is especially relevant for ...

Privacy” is an ambiguous notion, encompassing personal autonomy, democratic participation, identity management, and social coordination. Each of these privacy ideals reflect different sets of social concerns. Laws operationalize privacy in terms of “personally identifiable information.” Technologies reify that definition. This has implications for the constitution of identity and social life. I...

Digital identity management (IdM) for citizen-life processes requires trusted relationship among the service providers and users. Current IdM systems tend to lack the trust component in particular for online transactions. We propose the use of ePassport as a globally interoperable trust token to bridge the gap between offline and online environments. The paper analyses trust attributes of the e...

As privacy issues have gained social salience, entrepreneurs have begun to offer privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) and the U.S. has begun to enact privacy legislation. But"privacy"is an ambiguous notion. In the liberal tradition, it is an individualistic value protecting citizens from intrusion into a realm of autonomy. A feminist critique suggests that the social utility of privacy is to e...

Parametric images can help investigate disease mechanisms and vital functions. To estimate parametric images, it is necessary to obtain the tissue time activity curves (tTACs), which express temporal changes of tracer activity in human tissue. In general, the tTACs are calculated from each voxel’s value of the time sequential PET images estimated from dynamic PET data. Recently, spatio-temporal...

Objectives: To analyze the whole PET/CT imaging protocol from patient’s registration to the end of the exam in order to optimize the use of such device. Methods: Data from June to July 2010 and from September to October 2010 were acquired, evaluating the time required by every step of the patient pathway. After the first data acquisition, we identified critical elements connected with the execu...

In this paper, we discuss privacy threats on the Internet and possible solutions to this problem. Examples of privacy threats in the communication networks are identity disclosure, linking data traffic with identity, location disclosure in connection with data content transfer, user profile disclosure or data disclosure itself. Identifying the threats and the technology that may be used for pro...