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objective: sexual addiction is a psychiatric disorder with unpleasant personal, inter-personal, legal, social, and physical outcomes for the patients. the cycle of this disorder is based on a false belief system known as early maladaptive schemas. this study aimed to examine and compare maladaptive cognitive schemas in sex addicts and normal people. methods: in the present study, a causal-compa...

As networked systems become more complex, and they support more critical applications, there is a compelling need to augment the Red Team approach to vulnerability analysis with more formal, automated methods. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Planning, with its welldeveloped theory and rich set of tools, offers an attractive approach. By adopting this approach we have been able to generate attack g...

In this thesis, we develop techniques for vulnerability analysis and defense that only require access to vulnerable programs in binary form. Our approach does not use or require source code. We focus on a binary-centric approach since everyone typically has access to the binary code for the programs they run. Thus, our approach is applicable to a wider audience than previous approaches that req...

Dietary restriction (DR) extends lifespan in multiple species from various taxa. This effect can arise via two distinct but not mutually exclusive ways: a change in aging rate and/or vulnerability to the aging process (i.e. initial mortality rate). When DR affects vulnerability, this lowers mortality instantly, whereas a change in aging rate will gradually lower mortality risk over time. Unrave...

Assessing and quantifying atmospheric vulnerability is a key issue in urban environmental protection and management. This paper integrated the Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), fuzzy synthesis evaluation and Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial analysis into an Exposure-Sensitivity-Adaptive capacity (ESA) framework to quantitatively assess atmospheric environment vulnerability in the B...

BACKGROUND Social vulnerability is related to the health of elderly people, but its measurement and relationship to frailty are controversial. The aims of the present study were to operationalize social vulnerability according to a deficit accumulation approach, to compare social vulnerability and frailty, and to study social vulnerability in relation to mortality. METHODS AND FINDINGS This i...