Are patents a tool for promoting the development of medical treatments for patients or merely a roadblock to access to health care? This is a perennial question to which there are often strenuous opinions. This Symposium Issue complements the Second Annual Beazley Symposium on Access to Health Care, "Perspectives on Patents and Patients: Can They Coexist?," by providing a variety of perspective...

This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core. Using a case study entitled "The forgetful mourner" to introduce the tensions between each of these positions, I go on to explain the central tenets of both principlism and narrative ethics. Rathe...

We propose a new encryption primitive, commitment consistent encryption (CCE), and instances of this primitive that enable building the first universally verifiable voting schemes with a perfectly private audit trail (PPAT) and practical complexity. That is: – the audit trail that is published for verifying elections guarantees everlasting privacy, and – the computational load required from the...

‎in this article‎, ‎we introduce a new type iterative scheme for‎ ‎approximating common fixed points of two asymptotically‎ ‎nonexpansive mappings is defined‎, ‎and weak and strong convergence‎ ‎theorem are proved for the new iterative scheme in a uniformly‎ ‎convex banach space‎. ‎the results obtained in this article‎ ‎represent an extension as well as refinement of previous known‎ ‎resu...

In this paper, we apply Legendre wavelet collocation method to obtain the approximate solution of nonlinear Stratonovich Volterra integral equations. The main advantage of this method is that Legendre wavelet has orthogonality property and therefore coefficients of expansion are easily calculated. By using this method, the solution of nonlinear Stratonovich Volterra integral equation reduces to...