The rationale for dividing the clinical spectrum of DSM-III-R male heterosexual gender identity disorder into three types was examined. The DSM-III-R category of fetishism for female attire, was included in the analysis. There were 266 male participants divided into three groups: 172 fetishists for female attire or gender identity patients, 52 androphiles, and 42 gynephiles. A 16 item questionn...

This paper presents a first attempt to describe the relevance and importance of a Digital Learner Identity in the context of supporting lifelong learners. A Digital Learner Identity is an augmented user model that captures the traces lifelong learners leave in their digital, social and physical worlds, all combined in a single model. In this paper we start looking at the notion of offline ident...

The existing unified authentication schemes are based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)/Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI), WS-Security, Kerberos etc. But they can't support the developing Trusted Network Connect (TNC) environment. To solve the problem, a unified authentication scheme supporting multi-authentication modes based on Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) in trusted network named...

Solving the problems of digital identity in a holistic manner requires that we rethink how architect online. This paper presents architecture an metasystem called Sovrin Network aims to improve user experience, increase flexibility, and reduce overall costs while supporting better privacy security. We discuss online on modern internet, nature relationships, explore architectures systems, detail...

The management of identities on the Internet has evolved from the traditional approach (where each service provider stores and manages identities) to a federated identity management system (where the identity management is delegated to a set of identity providers). On the one hand, federated identity ensures usability and provides economic benefits to service providers. On the other hand, it po...

In mammals, cochlear sensory hair cells that are responsible for hearing are postmitotic and are not replaced after loss. One of the most promising strategies to regenerate hair cells is to identify and inhibit the factors preventing the conversion of adjacent non-sensory supporting cells into hair cells. Here we demonstrate that mammalian hair cells can be directly generated from supporting ce...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE Disability identity involves affirming one's status as a person with a disability and incorporating this group membership into one's identity. It is associated with well-being in populations of people with disabilities, but its relationship with depression and anxiety in multiple sclerosis (MS) has yet to be examined. It was hypothesized that disability identity would predict ...

We explicitly describe and analyse blind hierachical identity-based encryption (blind HIBE) schemes, which are natural generalizations of blind IBE schemes [20]. We then uses the blind HIBE schemes to construct: (1) An identity-based blind signature scheme secure in the standard model, under the computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) assumption, and with much shorter signature size and lesser commu...