US biologists adopt cloning moratorium

Should Argentina Adopt the US Dollar?

This paper examines the pros and cons of the recent proposal that Argentina should adopt the US dollar as its official currency, rather than have a currency board system in which the units of domestic currency issued are backed “one-to-one” by dollar reserves. The motivation for adopting the dollar seems to be that it could guarantee credibility in monetary policy and eliminate the risk premium...

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

Generalizing ADOPT and BnB-ADOPT

ADOPT and BnB-ADOPT are two optimal DCOP search algorithms that are similar except for their search strategies: the former uses best-first search and the latter uses depth-first branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we present a new algorithm, called ADOPT(k), that generalizes them. Its behavior depends on the k parameter. It behaves like ADOPT when k = 1, like BnB-ADOPT when k = ∞ and like a...

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...

Falling litigation rates in the US: could Ireland adopt similar measures.

Medical litigation has halved in the US over the last 10 years 1 . Rates of paid claims have decreased from 18.6 to 9.9 per 1000 physicians between 2002 and 2013. The median payment awards have reduced from $ 218,400 to $195,000 between 2007 and 2013. The consequence of this improved medico-legal environment is that the insurance premiums for doctors have lowered. In some states the premiums fo...