BACKGROUND The Turkish Association of Medicine founded a Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee in 1993 to evaluate and accredit scientific meetings and publications. The aims of this project were to raise the standards of meetings and to introduce compulsory revalidation and re-certification for physicians in Turkey. DISCUSSION Since the year 1994, 2348 applications to the Cont...

Packet and flow scheduling algorithms for WiMAX has been a topic of interest for a long time since the very inception of WiMAX networks. WiMAX offers advantages particularly in terms of Quality of service it offers over a longer range at the MAC level. In our work, we propose two credit based scheduling schemes one in which completed flows distributes the left over credits equally to all higher...

Standard setting has gathered great attention in the academic and policy circles recently. At the heart of the focus are concerns around standard setting organizations and standards essential patents. Questions have been raised about whether there are “too many” standards essential patents, on how and when to access the value of these patents, and whether their owners can cause a potential hold...

European governments aim to raise labour supply, cut unemployment rates and, at the same time, maintain social cohesion. Yet, economists have always stressed the trade-off between these objectives. This paper explores whether the frontier of the equity-efficiency trade-off can be shifted outwards in the Netherlands by using an applied general equilibrium model. In particular, we consider variou...