IN THE Western medical tradition, fever and fevers loom large. Yet medical historians have, on the whole, fought shy of such a diffuse and difficult subject, preferring the investigation of more speculative and general theories of medicine to a careful examination of what, to judge from the surviving literature, was the most common disease or group of diseases that a doctor encountered in his p...

This research examines how traditional regulatory and voluntary approaches affect motivations foraddressing potential harms to water quality. The traditional approach consists of governmentalenforcement of mandatory requirements. The voluntary approach consists of government callingattention to potential harms and facilitating actions to address them. These approaches are best t...

With information technology progressing on a nearly day-to-day basis with respect to technical feasibility, general availability and individual familiarity, challenges of eLearning at the workplace no longer reside in technical impediments. Whereas bulky, unhandy software, weak network connections or low usability used to present the major obstacles, it is now the missing integration of eLearni...

any of the security properties that are outlined repeatedly in the newer regulations and standards can easily be side-stepped. Too often the culprits are unsophisticated software development techniques, a lack of securityfocused quality assurance, and scarce security training for software developers, software architects, and project managers. To meet future needs, opportunities, and threats ass...

In this paper we argue that the literature underestimates the value of primaries, because it focuses on overall average effects. The value of primaries is likely to vary across situations. We argue that primary elections are most needed in safe constituencies, where one party’s candidate will have a large advantage in the general election – even if that party’s candidate is “low quality”. In sa...

Power consumption and power-related issues have become a first-order concern for most designs and loom as fundamental barriers for many others. And, while the primary method used to date for reducing power has been supply voltage reduction, this technique begins to lose its effectiveness as voltages drop to sub-one volt range and further reductions in the supply voltage begin to create more pro...