The U niversity’s Board of T rus tees will convene on campus today, tom or­ row and S a tu rd a y for its t r i a n n u a l meeting to discuss and vote on policy issues within the University. The agenda for the closed meetings has not been publicized, but tradition and statements made by University offi­ cials have highlighted various issues that will doubtlessly be discussed. E a r l ie r in t...

A new fair electronic cash system is proposed based on group blind signature and secret sharing scheme. Our proposed system is dynamic: we propose a method to delete the dishonest banks that maybe attack the system, which was not mentioned in the previous literatures. Our proposed scheme does not need a trusted third party to trace users: a shop owning suspicious ecoin and the bank having issue...

Today’s international organizations are characterized by a fundamental deficit in democracy. We therefore propose institutional measures to increase the direct participation possibilities of the citizens in international organizations. In order to reduce the number of citizens involved in decision-making to a manageable size, a representative sample of trustees is selected using a random mechan...

T he termination of the estrogen-progestogen trial of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study in July 2002 was a milestone in the history of postmenopausal hormone therapy. In response, The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) convened an expert Hormone Therapy (HT) Advisory Panel to prepare a report on hormone therapy. After approval from the 2001-2002 NAMS Board of Trustees, the report w...

Abstract: Inequity aversion and reciprocity have been identified as two primary motivations underlying human decision making. However, because income and wealth inequality exist to some degree in all societies, these two key motivations can point to different decisions. In particular, when a beneficiary is less wealthy than a benefactor, a reciprocal action can lead to greater inequality. In th...

Strong reciprocity is characterized by the willingness to altruistically reward cooperative acts and to altruistically punish norm-violating, defecting behaviours. Recent evidence suggests that subtle reputation cues, such as eyes staring at subjects during their choices, may enhance prosocial behaviour. Thus, in principle, strong reciprocity could also be affected by eye cues. We investigate t...

Strong reciprocity is characterized by the willingness to altruistically reward cooperative acts and to altruistically punish norm-violating, defecting behaviours. Recent evidence suggests that subtle reputation cues, such as eyes staring at subjects during their choices, may enhance prosocial behaviour. Thus, in principle, strong reciprocity could also be affected by eye cues. We investigate t...

l The Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Fund is financed on a year-by-year basis and is adequately financed. The Trustees urge the Congress to take additional actions designed to control SMI costs through specific program legislation and as a part of enacting comprehensive health care reform. The Boards of Trustees of the four trust funds issued a joint summary of their 1993 a...