Auditing postgraduate meetings

American Diabetes Association Postgraduate Meetings—2011

A t the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Postgraduate Meetings held 25–26 February 2011 in New York, a discussion of health-care reform and diabetes was opened by Herbert Pardes, chief executive officer of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who stated that “the focus on health care by the entire country . . . and the world has never been so great.” His medical center is one of the largest hospi...

Auditing overhead, auditing adaptation, and benchmark evaluation in Linux

Logging is a critical component of Linux auditing. However, our experiments indicate that the logging overhead can be significant. The paper aims to leverage the performance overhead introduced by Linux audit framework under various usage patterns. The study on the problem leads to an adaptive audit-logging mechanism. Many security incidents or other important events are often accompanied with ...

Postgraduate Medicine

THE most important and most costly industrial disease is contact dermatitis and the most common cause of that is chromate sensitivity. This collection of monographs, edited by Dr Desmond Burrows is timely and fills an important gap in our literature. Chrome is very widely used in industry and its use is increasing yearly, no less than 124 different jobs in industry where workers are exposed to ...

Postgraduate Quiz

A 37 year old gentleman with recurrent chest pain and dyspnoea on exertion was referred for cardiac CT examination after an equivocal exercise stress test.

Meetings reports