Carswell Partners, London, Ontario Correspondence: Mr Norman H Tiffin, 22551 Jury Road, Kamoka, Ontario N0L 1R0. Telephone 226-376-1414, e-mail [email protected] Tobacco smoking has no health benefits. None. It can be argued that nicotine, one of the thousands of compounds in tobacco smoke, can have positive effects on some cognitive functions and may even confer some neuroprotection (1), but gett...

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Trust models have been used widely in the literature in a number of different contexts. We examine an emotive scenario where trust would be extremely useful: online dating. We explore the use of a semiring-based trust model with online dating in a social network. Introductions are facilitated by friend-of-a-friend connections in the network in a manner similar to some real world scenarios. We s...

The economic analysis of property rights proceeds in two steps. The Ž rst distinguishes rival from nonrival goods. The second contrasts the welfare effects of property rights for these two types of goods. For rival goods, strong property rights lead to efŽ cient outcomes. For nonrival goods, property rights involve the trade-off formalized by William Nordhaus (1969): Weak property rights lead t...

*Correspondence: Baskiran Adil, Elazig Road, 15th km, Inonu University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Malatya, Turkey 44280 Tel: +90-422-341-06 60-6416 Fax: +90-422-341-0660 E-mail: [email protected] The intra-operative death of a liver transplant recipient is a devastating complication that occurs very infrequently. If the liver graft is exactly procured from the living do...

Some features of computer programs can make the programs easier to use by enabling users to interact with them in the familiar ways they interact with other people. Including these features is hard, however, and doing a good job at it is even harder. We present some of these features, and compare the pros and cons of including them in a computer program. We conclude with criteria designers can ...

The model to be used depends on what our students want to use and what we are able to provide as teachers. Most AMEP clients are aiming to settle in Australia, and many AMEP teachers speak some variety of Australian English, and so this is a reasonable model for the AMEP. But familiarity with other accents – so-called native (eg New Zealand, British) and non-native (eg Chinese, German) – is als...