Cardiologists and patients contemplate the risk of proposed operations. Surgeons typically report outcomes on operations performed. Emergency intraoperative crossover from off- to on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting occurs uncommonly but has substantial rates of mortality and morbidity. Much of the reported perioperative benefit of off- compared with on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting ...

This book outlines the underlying pathophysiology of heart failure, summarises standard pharmacological and device therapy, and sets the context of the challenges resulting from an unpredictable course of disease. In easily digestible summaries, this book presents practical advice about how and when to integrate a palliative care approach alongside standard heart failure management, how to comm...

Darwin introduced the idea that ornamental secondary sexual traits have evolved in response to female preferences for showy males. Among such traits, yellow and red carotenoid-based ornaments have been considered as particularly good candidates for explaining why and how females would benefit from mating with showy partners. Because carotenoids can be used for promotion of both health and appea...

Two divisions of a firm, overarched by a headquarters, are engaged in a decision problem. Division one obtains information and informs division two who has the formal authority to make the decision. Headquarters guides the decision process by affecting the quality of information that division one obtains. In equilibrium, division one honestly communicates the inferences drawn from...

Professionals offer (and, we hope, deliver) honest and competent judgment. Perspectives has devoted many issues to the first of these, honesty, what we tend to call "professional ethics:' We have had little to say about the second, technical competence, what makes honest judgment professional. We have, it seems, simply taken it for granted. Yet, an engineer without engineering judgment, a lawye...

This paper describes how wealth inequality may distort public resource allocation. A government seeks to allocate limited resources to productive sectors, but sectoral productivity is privately known by agents with vested interests in those sectors. They lobby the government for preferential treatment. The government—even if it honestly seeks to maximize economic efficiency—may be confounded by...

From the “passive-sports” point of view, football (soccer) is the number 1 sport in Austria. Unfortunately, the Austrian national football team is anything but well known for playing football, and honestly, from time to time I thought about starting a public opinion poll to abolish the national Austrian football team. However, we (the Austrians) are doing our best to compensate for this annoyan...

In this paper, we propose a novel game-theoretical solution to the multi-path routing problem in wireless ad hoc networks comprising selfish nodes with hidden information and actions. By incorporating a suitable traffic allocation policy, the proposed mechanism results in Nash equilibria where each node honestly reveals its true cost, and forwarding subgame perfect equilibrium in which each nod...

Undergraduate students were administered the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) and the Structured Inventory of the Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) and asked to respond honestly, or instructed to feign cognitive dysfunction due to head injury. Before both instruments were administered, symptom-coached feigners were provided with some information about brain injury, while feigners who received a...

This book outlines the underlying pathophysiology of heart failure, summarises standard pharmacological and device therapy, and sets the context of the challenges resulting from an unpredictable course of disease. In easily digestible summaries, this book presents practical advice about how and when to integrate a palliative care approach alongside standard heart failure management, how to comm...