The objective was to describe the sexual life satisfaction of couples in the climacteric stage and determine whether there are differences between the perception of satisfaction and the sex life of each partner. We studied 142 couples obtained by stratified sampling of family health centers, Concepción, Chile. 66% of women and 84% of men reported being very or somewhat satisfied with their sex ...

BACKGROUND Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) is an effective strategy to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Studies conducted in the Dominican Republic (DR) suggest that acceptability of VMMC among men may be as high as 67%. The goal of this clinical trial was to assess the acceptability, uptake and safety for VMMC services in two areas of high HIV prevalence in the country. METHODS T...

This paper summarizes the literature on spatial filtering for analysis of spatial data, as proposed by Griffith (2000a). Given the scarcity of its application in transportation and its fledgling nature, preliminary case studies were conducted using continuous and discrete response data sets, for land values and land use, in comparison with results from spatial autoregressive models with distanc...

Recently, Brenner et al. proposed a symmetric somewhat homomorphic encryption scheme and applied it to solve some practical problems, such as the Millionaires’ problem, which only need to evaluate circuits of limited depth. It is claimed that the security of their scheme is built on the hardness of integer factorization. In this paper, we use the Euclidean Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) algorith...

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Here we present previously unpublished optical spectra of supernova (SN) 2001ig, a Type IIb SN, from about a week after explosion until nearly one year later. The earliest spectrum consists of only a few broad absorption features, but soon more common Type II SN features including hydrogen P-Cygni profiles and helium absorption become apparent. At later times, as the H features fade and the He ...

Strassen's 1969 algorithm for fast matrix multiplication 2] is based on the possibility to multiply two 2 2 matrices A and B by using 7 multiplications instead of the usual 8. The corresponding formulas are an important part of any algorithms course, but, unfortunately, even in the best textbook expositions (see, e.g., 1]), they look very ad hoc. In this paper, we show that the use of natural s...

Verifiable computing (VC) uses cryptography to delegate computation to untrusted workers. But in most VC schemes, the delegated program must first be arithmetized – expressed as a circuit with multiplication and addition over a finite field. Previous work has compiled subsets of languages like C, LLVM, and bespoke assembly to arithmetic circuits. In this paper, we report on a new DSL for VC, ca...