Near the end of her sports physical examination, a 16-yearold girl seems worried. The physician offers her some time without her mother in the room. Once in private, the girl quickly requests a pregnancy test. Although the test result is negative, this is a perfect teaching opportunity. Adolescents are generally healthy, but they commonly present with high-risk behaviors that are often missed b...

An enhancement is suggested to make Bitcoin transaction amounts hidden to all but the sender and receiver. In each transaction, the output amounts are encrypted with the public keys of the respective receivers. Only the transaction fee is publicly revealed, to allow miners to prioritise transactions. A homomorphic commitment for each transaction proves that the sum of the transaction inputs mat...

BACKGROUND Most surveys on adolescents' use of health services rely on parental report, and this may underestimate adolescents' use of confidential services. OBJECTIVE To investigate adolescents' report of their own use of health services, access to care, and knowledge and use of confidential services. METHOD A random digit-dialed survey of 14- to 19-year-old adolescents was conducted in Mo...

We used an expectancy theory framework to predict rating inflation. Managers (N=106) provided confidential ratings of subordinates as well as measures of rating goals, valences and instrumentalities. Rating inflation (operationalized in terms of differences between confidential ratings and public ratings obtained from personnel files) varied as a function of ratee performance levels, with highe...

PURPOSE Private and confidential health care is an important indicator of the quality of health care for adolescents. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of health care utilization and private and confidential health care among a nationally representative population of high school students. METHODS A two-stage cluster sample of 9,107 students (grades 8-12, response rat...

OBJECTIVE To describe the impacts of participating in confidential enquiry panels for the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy. DESIGN Qualitative interview study. SETTING The former northern health region of England. SAMPLE Eighteen health professionals who had participated in at least one confidential enquiry panel. METHODS Semistructured one-to-one interviews u...

Protecting sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure is a major concern of every organization. As an organization’s employees need to access such information in order to carry out their daily work, data leakage detection is both an essential and challenging task. Whether caused by malicious intent or an inadvertent mistake, data loss can result in significant damage to the organization...

Social science researchers increasingly make use of data that is confidential because it contains linkages to the identities of people, corporations, etc. The value of this data lies in the ability to join the identifiable entities with external data, such as genome data, geospatial information, and the like. However, the confidentiality of this data is a barrier to its utility and curation, ma...

The demand for confidential conferences is increasing, for example on Internet and Intranets. This paper deals with aspects of handling confidential multimedia conferences and in particular pursues a method of utilizing E-mail for this