BACKGROUND Little information is currently available concerning young medical students desire to pursue a career in oncology, or their career expectations. METHODS This project is a cross-sectional epidemiological study. A voluntary and anonymous questionnaire was distributed to all young oncologists studying in France between the 2nd of October 2013 and the 23rd of February 2014. RESULTS T...

In this paper we use the nonrepresentable ring E (m) p to introduce public key cryptosystems in noncommutative settings and based on the Semigroup Action Problem and the Decomposition Problem respectively.

This paper presents a new framework for constructing fully CCA-secure predicate encryption schemes from pair encoding schemes. Our construction is the first in the context of predicate encryption which uses the technique of well-formedness proofs known from public key encryption. The resulting constructions are simpler and more efficient compared to the schemes achieved using known generic tran...

We present three examples of finitely repeated games with public monitoring that have sequential equilibria in private strategies, i.e., strategies that depend on own past actions as well as public signals. Such private sequential equilibria can have features quite unlike those of the more familiar perfect public equilibria: (i) making a public signal less informative can create Pareto superior...

We present three examples of finitely repeated games with public moni­ toring that have sequential equilibria in private strategies, i.e., strategies that depend on own past actions as well as public signals. Such private sequential equilibria can have features quite unlike those of the more fa­ miliar perfect public equilibria: (i) making a public signal less informative can create Pareto supe...

in defining the term social management strategy information, we can say, in short, that it is to organize social action aimed at solving problems of strategic policymaking and strategic planning of social services. direct service to the public not only means social welfare but also calls for constructive strategic policies in international atmosphere. smsi is the organized efforts of the societ...

Our goal is to extend agent communication languages for persuasion dialogues. We distinguish action commitments from propositional commitments, because both limit future moves, but an action commitment is fulfilled when the hearer believes that the action is performed, whereas a propositional commitment is fulfilled only when the hearer concedes to the proposition – where concessions are the ab...

BACKGROUND Because both public health surveillance and action are crucial, the authors initiated meetings at regional and national levels to assess and reform surveillance and action systems. These meetings emphasized improved epidemic preparedness, epidemic response, and highlighted standardized assessment and reform. METHODS To standardize assessments, the authors designed a conceptual fram...

We completely characterize deterministic strategy-proof and group strategy-proof mechanisms on singlesinked public policy domain. The single-sinked domain can be used to model any allocation problem where a single output must be chosen in an interval with the assumption that agents’ preferences have a single most loathful point (the sink) in the interval, and the preferences are increasing as o...

BACKGROUND In the past few decades many countries have worked to increase the number of women delivering in facilities, with the goal of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia to understand where and with whom women deliver. Furthermore, we aim to test potential drivers of facility ...