BACKGROUND Personality traits affect human relationships, social interactions, treatment procedures, and essentially all human activities. The purpose of this study is to investigate the personality traitsincluding sensation seeking, flexibility, and happiness among a variety of infertile women who were apt to choose assisted reproductive technology (ART) or surrogacy. MATERIALS AND METHODS T...

BACKGROUND Surrogacy is one of the new techniques of assisted reproduction technology in which a woman carries and bears a child for another woman. In Iran, many Shia clerics and jurists considered it permissible so there is no religious prohibition for it. In addition to the risk of physical complications for complete surrogate mothers, the possibility of psychological complications resulted f...

BACKGROUND In vitro fertilization (IVF) surrogacy makes it possible for women who do not have a functional uterus to have their own genetic offspring. We describe here our experience of IVF surrogacy in Finland over a 10-year period. METHODS This retrospective study included 17 women who underwent ovarian stimulation in connection with surrogacy in 1991-2001 at four clinics. The surrogate mot...

OBJECTIVES India is fast becoming the most prominent player in the global industry of reproductive tourism, in which infertile people cross international borders to seek assisted reproduction technologies. This study was conducted to better understand the extent and manner in which Indian clinics seek foreign clients. METHODS A systematic search of official Indian assisted reproduction techno...

Credential-based authorization offers interesting advantages for ubiquitous scenarios involving limited devices such as sensors and personal mobile equipment: the verification can be done locally; it offers a more reduced computational cost than its competitors for issuing, storing, and verification; and it naturally supports rights delegation. The main drawback is the revocation of rights. Rev...

In recent years, there have been several proposals for anonymous communication systems that provide intentional weaknesses to allow anonymity to be circumvented in special cases. These anonymity revocation schemes attempt to retain the properties of strong anonymity systems while granting a special class of people the ability to selectively break through their protections. We evaluate the two d...

Membership revocation is practically necessary for group signature schemes. At present, most revocable group signature schemes are based on ROM model and many standard model group signature schemes do not support revocation. We present a novel and general revocation method for standard model group signature scheme based on length-reducing commitment and GrothSahai proof system, and demonstrate ...

This paper presents a model for the distribution of revocation information using certificate revocation lists (CRLs). This model is used to highlight inefficiencies in the “traditional” method of distributing certificate status information using CRLs. Two alternative CRL-based revocation distribution mechanisms, over-issued CRLs and segmented CRLs, are then presented. The original model is then...

In the cloud computing, attribute-based encryption and public key encryption with keyword search are two popular issues. Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption is famous for its fine-grained access control. Keyword Search over encrypted files is an important function in the actual situation. We particularly concern the problem of revocation. Additionally, several solutions of the dynamic ...