Achieving better institutional self-study

Probiotics: achieving a better regulatory fit.

The development and marketing of new probiotic products, substances containing live microorganisms that have a beneficial effect on the human body, have dramatically increased over the last few years. This article examines how the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission currently regulate probiotics and makes recommendations as to changes that might be made to ensure that prob...

How better informed are the institutional investors?

Article history: Received 7 December 2008 Received in revised form 23 November 2009 Accepted 4 December 2009 Available online 24 December 2009

Achieving Goals in Collaboration: Analysis of Estonian Institutional Calls

Estonian institutional calls are analyzed with the further aim to develop a dialogue system. The analysis is based on the Estonian Dialogue Corpus. Four types of dialogues are considered: calls to travel agencies and outpatients’ offices, ordering a taxi, and directory inquiries. A customer’s goal is either to get information or to trigger an action by the operator. This goal is achieved in col...

Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care

Achieving Better Privacy for the 3GPP AKA Protocol

Proposed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a standard for 3G and 4G mobile-network communications, the AKA protocol is meant to provide a mutually-authenticated key-exchange between clients and associated network servers. As a result AKA must guarantee the indistinguishability from random of the session keys (key-indistinguishability), as well as clientand server-impersonation...