Acquiring genetic literacy is one of the most important things a person can do to promote their own and their family's health. Family history-genetics and the shared environment-is a significant risk factor for cancer as well as other common diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. A good understanding of family health history should increasingly be used to personalise health mess...

Magic tricks offer powerful tools to manipulate people’s attention and conscious experience. Using realworld eyetracking we can investigate how different misdirection cues drive people’s eye movements. Moreover, by measuring people’s susceptibility to the trick, we can evaluate how these cues influence people’s conscious experience. We used a magic trick to explore the way in which spoken quest...

Scapegoating is a source of ine¢ ciency in organizations. This is a commonly held view. But despite its commonality and its use as a justi…cation for reforms designed to reduce scapegoating, no formal model has been developed to explain why and when this is the case. We propose an explanation by focusing on how superiors make decisions inside an organization when they only care about reputation...

Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may have an incentive to avoid information indicating that voluntary contributions are socially valuable. The reason is that such information can increase these individuals’perceived burden of responsibility. An increase in the believed social value of contributions a¤ects neither behavior nor the utility of Homo Economicus and of the ...

The unforgeability of conventional digital signatures is necessarily based on complexity theoretic assumptions, i.e. even the most secure schemes can be broken by an adversary with unexpected computing abilities. Thus we introduce fail-stop signatures: They are as unforgeable as the best conventional signatures, but if a signature is forged nevertheless, the supposed signer can prove the forger...

A prop-03 de la tetanie de l'cnfant: presentation de quelques cas, reYue de la. litterature.  Parmi les diverses etiologies de la tetanie in­fantile, le rachitisme et la malabsorption sont les causes les plus frequentes en Iran.  La tetanie s'observe plus volontiers au debut du rachitisme et dans des stades avances. Un seul cas de tetanie fut obse:rve chez un enfant de trois mo:is, ancien pre...