Certificate transparency (CT) is an elegant mechanism designed to detect when a certificate authority (CA) has issued a certificate incorrectly. Many CAs now support CT and it is being actively deployed in browsers. However, a number of privacy-related challenges remain. In this paper we propose practical solutions to two issues. First, we develop a mechanism that enables web browsers to audit ...

BACKGROUND Licensed physicians in Alberta are required to participate in the Physician Achievement Review (PAR) program every 5 years, comprising multi-source feedback questionnaires with confidential feedback, and practice visits for a minority of physicians. We wished to identify and classify issues requiring change or improvement from the family practice visits, and the responses to advice. ...

If an antitrust authority chooses policies to maximize the number of successfully prosecuted cartels, when do those policies also serve to minimize the number of cartels that form? When the detection and prosecution of cartels is inherently difficult, we find that an antitrust authority’s policies minimize the number of cartels, as is socially desirable. But when the detection and prosecution o...

The link structure of the web is analyzed to measure the authority of pages, which can be taken into account for ranking query results. Due to the enormous dynamics of the web, with millions of pages created, updated, deleted, and linked to every day, timeliness of web pages and links is a crucial factor for their evaluation. Users are interested in important pages (i.e., pages with high author...

Authority is best defined as a relation that exists between individuals. A relation of authority exists when one individual, prompted by his or her circumstances, does as indicated by another individual what he or she would not do in the absence of such indication. This I will refer to as the authority relation. The legitimacy of an authority relation is what keeps the relationship from breakin...

The proposal that psychologists should pursue prescriptive authority was first put forth 25 years ago, and it has been an official goal of the American Psychological Association for 15 years. Since then some form of prescriptive authority has been approved by three states, the Territory of Guam, and three branches of the military. Psychologists are also eligible to prescribe in the Public Healt...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relative impact on publication bias caused by multiple publication, selective publication, and selective reporting in studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. DESIGN 42 placebo controlled studies of five selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors submitted to the Swedish drug regulatory authority as a basis for marketing approval for treating major depression ...

Data up to 1995 on the survival of 3-yr cohorts of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) born in the UK in the period 1968–1992 have previously been published. The present study reports survival data up to the end of 2003 together with a 2003 population estimate. All subjects with CF born in the UK in the period 1968–1992 were identified up to 1997 by active enquiry through recognised CF clinics a...