How they make the Time Tables

Opioid Conversion Tables: How Accurate Are They?

There are a number of reasons why physicians might want to switch from one opioid to another. Rotating opioids can reduce the risk of developing tolerance to the analgesic effects of any single drug and of developing hyperalgesia (where the extended use of an opioid can actually reduce the pain threshold, resulting in a worsening of the pain).2 Thus, changing to another opioid can be quite bene...

How IRBs make decisions: should we worry if they disagree?

There is at present, far too little empirical research into the actual decision-making process of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and it is sobering to be reminded by Robert Klitzman’s article that while theoretical debates might rage and prove fertile ground for new theories and better ways of approaching research ethics; ethics committee members must try to make sense of these concepts and...

How to Make Envy Vanish Over Time

We study the dynamic fair division of indivisible goods. Suppose T items arrive online and must be allocated upon arrival to one of n agents, each of whom has a value in [0, 1] for the current item. Our goal is to design allocation algorithms that minimize the maximum envy at time T , EnvyT , de€ned as the maximum di‚erence between any agent’s overall value for items allocated to another agent ...

How to Make the T-ARGUS Modular Method Applicable to Linked Tables

The software package τ-ARGUS offers a very efficient algorithm for secondary cell suppression known as either HiTaS or the Modular approach. The method is well suited for the protection of up to 3-dimensional hierarchical tables. In practice, statistical agencies release multiple tabulations based on the same dataset. Usually these tables are linked through certain linear constraints. In such a...

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