A Future Not/To Come

Promotion of cooperation when benefits come in the future: A water transfer case

A country with a surplus river basin cooperates with a country with a deficit river basin in a joint investment project to build a water canal. The benefits from the existence of the canal are realized when cooperation halts and countries will have the opportunity to engage in a non-cooperative water market game. We define an imputation distribution procedure to share the “burden” from cooperat...

We've come a long way.

Freddie Mercury died in 1991. I was a nursing student at the time and one of my colleagues said Freddie deserved what happened to him because of his gay lifestyle. I was shocked, but this was not an isolated incident - as a student I experienced both overt and subtle homophobia.

Come Together

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Cloning human beings and the consumer of the future: a worthwhile endeavor or a nightmare come true?

If you build it, they will come: unintended future uses of organised health data collections

BACKGROUND Health research increasingly relies on organized collections of health data and biological samples. There are many types of sample and data collections that are used for health research, though these are collected for many purposes, not all of which are health-related. These collections exist under different jurisdictional and regulatory arrangements and include: 1) Population bioban...