The Iran Contra Affair: Reagan's Greatest Failure

The Boldt affair: correcting a collective failure.

Following this journal’s principled initiative [1], a process was initiated leading to the retraction of a considerable body of studies reported by the German anesthetist Joachim Boldt. As a result, eleven reports addressing the safety and efficacy of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) have been removed from the medical literature [2,3], as part of a retraction of eighty eight Boldt publications, in the...

The Alder Hey affair.

pricing unemployment insurance : the case of iran

employees always concern about losing their job , or in other word , losing their income resources. for this purpose, every government requires strong system for covering these concerns. the unemployment insurance (ui) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. in this thesis, we price ui based on the insurance history of employee and the duration of being unemployed. we use the weibull dis...

Greatest Lower Bounds for Consensus using Unreliable Failure Detectors

This paper takes place in the context of fault tolerant distributed computing. We investigate the eeciency of consensus algorithms using unreliable failure detectors. For this, we consider two measures using the longest message chain before the decision and give greatest lower bounds for the main classes of failure detector. In particular, we show that the longest message chain of all algorithm...

The monkey gland affair

His method of working involves very close study of the texts in order to uncover the medical concepts of their authors. For example, when he analyses the vocabulary of disease, showing how diseases are described and named, his conclusions illuminate the question of the extent to which individual characteristics ofthe patient are thought to influence the symptoms and course of the disease. One c...