Managing the Minefields in Optimal Treatment

Navigating the Minefields of Medicine and Journalism.

Despitehermanyprofessionalaccomplishments,NancySnyderman,MD— head and neck surgeon, network medical correspondent for nearly 25 years— might best be remembered for the take-out soup incident of 2014. Snyderman was caught violating her self-imposed21-dayquarantineafter returning from reporting on theEbola epidemic in Liberia for NBC News in October. She was spied waiting in a car while a compani...

Detecting Mines in Minefields With Linear Characteristics

We consider the problem of detecting minefields using aerial images. A first stage of image processing has reduced the image to a set of points, each one representing a possible mine. Our task is to decide which ones are actual mines. We assume that the minefield consists of approximately parallel rows of mines laid out according to a probability distribution that encourages evenly spaced, line...

Negotiating the Minefields of Corporate Vote-Buying

Corporate vote-buying has received significant attention in the last decade, in several legal cases that illustrate the fine line between legitimate use of vote harnessing as a useful corporate strategic tool on one hand, and its negative connotations as a potential instrument of fraud that attempts to disfranchise shareholders on the other hand. After a brief outline of the legal history of co...

The aftermath of war: in the minefields of Mozambique.

The Messenger of God, Managing the Quarrels in Medina

Conflict and quarrel may be counted essential for human societies. In some cases, lack of wise management leads quarrels to crisis in such a way that its foundation comes to be destroyed. The importance of the problem has led scholars in the field of management to deal with it and study to find a solution. This paper has studied the solutions of the Prophet for the quarrels of peoples in Medina...