A few (million) dollars more can keep Galileo exploring

Drug-eluting stents: more dollars than sense?

Can you keep a secret?

The characteristics of a method for measuring cyclic AMP binding proteins in cytosols of human breast cancer are described. Using the assay, binding proteins were demonstrable in all of 100 tumour cytosols. Levels of binding in individual tumours varied from 0.8 to 15 pmol mg-1 cytosol protein (mean value 5 pmol mg-' cytosol protein) and the dissociation constant ranged from 0.5 to 5.2 x 10-8M ...

A few more business patterns

1 Abstract Author expands on earlier patterns of business strategy to investigate how patterns may cover the whole business domain. Having shown earlier how patterns may be used to characterise corporate strategy the author is now seeking to drill down into implementation, from large-scale patterns down to smaller ones.

How Not to Win a Million Dollars: A Counterexample to a Conjecture of L. Breiman

Consider a gambling game in which we are allowed to repeatedly bet a portion of our bankroll at favorable odds. We investigate the question of how to minimize the expected number of rounds needed to increase our bankroll to a given target amount. Specifically, we disprove a 50-year old conjecture of L. Breiman [1], that there exists a threshold strategy that optimizes the expected number of rou...

Keep a Few: Outsourcing Data While Maintaining Confidentiality

We put forward a novel paradigm for preserving privacy in data outsourcing which departs from encryption. The basic idea behind our proposal is to involve the owner in storing a limited portion of the data, and maintaining all data (either at the owner or at external servers) in the clear. We assume a relational context, where the data to be outsourced is contained in a relational table. We the...