T he March 16, 2003, edition of The New York Times Magazine’s cover reads, “Half of What Doctors Know Is Wrong.” Inside, the lead story, entitled “The Biggest Mistake of Their Lives,” chronicles the struggles of four survivors of medical errors. The article also makes a projection that in 2003, as many as 98,000 people in the United States would die as a result of medical errors (Burton 2003). ...

How do we solve a problem like Elizabeth? This might well have been the title of Elizabeth Wurtzel’s ‘depression memoir,’ Prozac Nation (1994); or rather, it if book had memoir, rather than piece first-person gonzo-style reporting from field chemical imbalance. reading forms basis deeper reconsideration position in popular imagination as ‘voice generation.’ In public imagination, mid-’90s cultu...

Due to resource constraint of WSNs, it may be unnecessary or impossible to provide full coverage in many applications. Instead, partial coverage is enough to satisfy user requirements. Meanwhile, by applying partial coverage, network lifetime can be prolonged remarkably which is a primary goal of WSNs. In this paper, we investigate the pPercent Coverage Problem which only requires that p% of th...