A long-term follow-up study of 55 transsexual patients (32 male-to-female and 23 female-to-male) post-sex reassignment surgery (SRS) was carried out to evaluate sexual and general health outcome. Relatively few and minor morbidities were observed in our group of patients, and they were mostly reversible with appropriate treatment. A trend toward more general health problems in male-to-females w...

Oral estrogen administration decreases plasma levels of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), which may be explained by a decrease in endothelial tPA synthesis, an increase in its hepatic clearance, or both. In the present study, we determined (1) differences between oral (ie, via the liver) ethinyl estradiol and transdermal (ie, systemic) 17b-estradiol administration on plasma antigen level...

Oral estrogen administration decreases plasma levels of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), which may be explained by a decrease in endothelial tPA synthesis, an increase in its hepatic clearance, or both. In the present study, we determined (1) differences between oral (ie, via the liver) ethinyl estradiol and transdermal (ie, systemic) 17beta-estradiol administration on plasma antigen le...

Two experiments are described concerning voice characteristics of male-to-female transsexuals. In the speech production experiment isolated words and longer utterances were realized in a male and female mode by subjects. Speech samples were analyzed as to a number of acoustic parameters and compared intraindividually. It appeared that, in spite of anatomical constraints, subjects were able to r...

It can hardly be contradicted that there is a growing complaint about mismatch between the potential performance of CIM solutions available and the practical success score in implementing CIM in the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This paper assumes that one reason for this discrepancy lies in the heavy-handedness of the planning methods and tools available to consultants while plann...

In this paper we present an implementation of Schoofs algorithm for computing the number of i"2m-P°mts °f an elliptic curve that is defined over the finite field F2m . We have implemented some heuristic improvements, and give running times for various problem instances.