5HTTLPR: White Knight or Dark Blight?

Digital Rights Management: White Knight or Trojan Horse?

Due to its ability to solve all main problems associated with digital goods, Digital Right Management is the favourite option used by companies to tackle piracy. The aim of this article is to discuss the consequences of DRM for consumers, firms and society. The rationales of DRM are discussed and the expected benefits for firms are presented. It is shown that the advantages brought by DRM to fi...

Titanium dioxide: environmental white knight?

T itanium dioxide (TiO 2) is a multi-faceted compound. It's the stuff that makes toothpaste white and paint opaque. TiO 2 is also a potent photocatalyst that can break down almost any organic compound, and a number of companies are seeking to capitalize on TiO 2 's reactivity by developing a wide range of environmentally beneficial products. During the late 1970s, scientists began to realize th...

Coping with the White Knight in Planning

Recent Tweak-based planners replace the White Knight technique of a modal truth criterion by a simple heuristic for choosing the estab-lisher of a term in situation, empirically trading between the rigorous precision of a criterion and the computational complexity. In this paper , I argue that this WK technique does not rely on the opposition between mathematical rigour and eeciency of an imple...

Metamorphosis of medicine in the United States: is information technology a white knight or killer whale?

Surfactant replacement therapy in ARDS: white knight or noise in the system?

Although one would predict that surfactant replacement therapy would be effective in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a recent large trial proved unsuccessful, possibly reflecting the nature of the surfactant used. Given the importance of the unique proteins in the action of surfactant, these would seem vital components of any exogenous surfactant. The ability to identify patients at...