Similar to many other endocrinologic disease states, hypogonadism is a multifactorial disorder with clinical sequelae that reach well beyond those of just androgen deficiency. This syndrome results from failure of the testes to produce physiological levels of testosterone due to disruption of 1 or more levels of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. The condition affects 2 to 4 million men i...

Home and Building Automation (HBA) systems are traditionally concerned with the control of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, as well as lighting and shading systems. Services from the safety and security domain are typically provided by separated, application specific subsystems. An integration with the core HBA systems is done (if at all) at the management level. Nowadays, the rising des...

OBJECTIVE To examine the shorthand publications of Sir William Richard Gowers. BACKGROUND Gowers developed an almost obsessional interest in Pitman shorthand. During the later part of his active career (1894-1910), the bulk of his professional writing, comprising nearly 100 articles, was printed entirely in Pitman shorthand in the Phonographic Record of Clinical Teaching and Medical Science. ...

In his most recent series of paintings titled Kiʻi Kupuna: ʻO ʻAilāʻau (Ancestral Images: Forest Eater), Native Hawaiian artist Carl Franklin Kaʻailāʻau Pao reflects on the volcano deity ʻAilāʻau, who predates more popularly known goddess Pele in pantheon. Over last century, ʻAilāʻau’s story has largely fallen into obscurity. However, eruption Kīlauea Hawaiʻi Island 2018 heralded what many kūpu...

Risks generally lead to Protecting Behavior. However, it is still unknown which specific Protecting Behavior results from Perceived Privacy Risk in Social Network Sites (SNSs). In this article, we draw from the Protection Motivation Theory to postulate an influence of Perceived Privacy Risk (Threat Appraisal) on six Privacy Protecting Behaviors SNS members can use, which we identified in the li...

In order to run a game tactically, high level knowledge is required from and by coaches and analysis experts. Assessing tactical performance through statistic indicators has some drawbacks, however, it is not only difficult to prove reliability on the defined indicators, but those static indicators often hide the game's dynamics. New network-based approaches offer a promising way to improve fut...

Online social networks (OSNs) have formed virtual social networks where people meet and share information. Among all shared information, health related information (HRI) has received considerable attention from researchers and individual users. While considered beneficial, sharing HRI, which is personal in nature, comes with its privacy drawback. Privacy is a process of boundary regulation that...