Necessary but Illegitimate: On Democracy's Secrets

System based education in medical sciences: necessary but forgotten.

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Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...

Necessary but Insufficient

Present but Unreachable: Reducing Persistentlatent Secrets in HotSpot JVM

Applications that manage sensitive secrets, including cryptographic keys, are typically engineered to overwrite the secrets in memory once they’re no longer necessary, offering an important defense against forensic attacks against the computer. In a modern garbagecollected memory system, however, live objects will be copied and compacted into new memory pages, with the user program being unable...