Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

Evidence is not sufficient for selecting the subvastus approach in total knee arthroplasty.

Evidence is Not Sufficient for Selecting the Subvastus Approach in Total Knee Arthroplasty To the Editor: We read the article “Subvastus and Medial Parapatellar Approaches in TKA: Comparison of Functional Results”1 in the June 2011 issue of Orthopedics with interest. The authors reported that patients in the subvastus group achieved better functional results and had less pain at 12 days postope...

Selecting parental materials for hybridization by measuring genetic diversity

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...

Concealing Block Sizes Is Not Sufficient

correctly noted that blocked randomiza-tion has a disadvantage that " the executer can predict the next assignment " and this is clearly incompatible with allocation concealment. So we can agree that permuted blocks with a fixed block size should never be used in ran-domized trials. 2) But what is the solution to this problem? Kim and Shin 1) indicated that " To solve this problem, the allocato...

Intel SGX Remote Attestation is not sufficient

Intel SGX enclaves provide hardware enforced confidentiality and integrity guarantees for running pure computations (i.e., OS-level side-effect-free code) in the cloud environment. In addition, SGX remote attestation enables enclaves to prove that a claimed enclave is indeed running inside a genuine SGX hardware and not some (adversary controlled) SGX simulator. Since cryptographic protocols do...