The objectives of this study were to estimate the risk of illness for raw milk consumers due to Listeria monocytogenes in raw milk sold by permitted dealers, and the risk for people on farms who consume raw milk. Three scenarios were evaluated for raw milk sold by dealers: raw milk purchased directly from bulk tanks, from on-farm stores, and from retail. To assess the effect of mandatory testin...

The acquisition of information prior to sale gives rise to a hold-up situation quite naturally. Yet, while the bulk of the literature on the hold-up problem considers negotiations under symmetric information where cooperative short-cuts such as split the di¤erence capture the outcome of bargaining, in the present setting, parties negotiate under asymmetric information where the outcome must be ...

The purpose of this document is to verify attendance of the author to the Scientific Computing course, at the Danish Technical University (DTU). A study of cache usage and its impact on computational performance of matrix multiplication is presented, where experiments are conducted on various combinations of algorithms for performing such multiplication, and datastructures for storing the matri...

Two security domains that want to exchange information securely may need to agree on translations of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) labels of their information, if their MAC labels have a different syntax or semantics. It is desirable that these translations do not introduce any confidentiality violations. In this paper we present a property, the Security Level Translation Property (SLTP), whic...

BACKGROUND There is little information regarding commonalities, differences, and trends in the regulation of minimally invasive cosmetic procedures (MICP) across different state medical boards in the United States. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess current state medical board regulations regarding MICP, so as to better understand current and emerging trends in rules regarding delegation, and mana...

Safety Integrity Levels as defined by IEC 61508 provide the plant designer with the opportunity to optimise the design of protection system against potential hazards based on knowledge of the consequences of failure. This paper details the reasons behind the development of the standard, and describes the techniques that can be used for integrity level evaluation. A case study is then presented ...

This paper focuses on the key human rights consequences of the HIV screening policy that applies to all permanent and some temporary resident applicants to Canada. This mandatory policy was introduced in early 2002 by Citizenship and Immigration Canada after consultation with Health Canada. The policy has yet to be evaluated and, until recently, the actualities of the medical encounters where t...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health appointed an Expert Panel to assess the problem of health care-associated infections (HAI) in the state and make recommendations regarding mandatory reporting. At the Expert Panel's request, a cost-of-illness study was conducted using available data sources. In Massachusetts, the excess hospital costs attributed to HAIs were estimated at approximate...

Sir—In their article on the value of mandatory testing for HIV in a sub-Saharan hospital population, Palmer et al. [1] argue that their study shows the advantages of routine and mandatory HIV testing of all hospitalized patients. However, the authors offer no data on how such testing affects patients, since the patients in their study were not aware that they were being tested and were not info...