Applying the Charter to Discretionary Authority

Health Canada contemplates providing food industry with "discretionary" authority to fortify junk foods.

Legitimacy and the empowerment of discretionary legal authority: the United States Supreme Court and abortion rights.

PBFT vs Proof-of-Authority: Applying the CAP Theorem to Permissioned Blockchain

Permissioned blockchains are arising as a solution to federate companies prompting accountable interactions. A variety of consensus algorithms for such blockchains have been proposed, each of which has different benefits and drawbacks. Proof-of-Authority (PoA) is a new family of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus algorithms largely used in practice to ensure better performance than tradit...

Applying lightweight directory access protocol service on session certification authority

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service is a new technology being applied on the Internet. On largescale network systems using Transmission control protocol (TCP)/Internet protocol (IP), there is no standard suggested for single directory––certainly without one to be routinely used on the scale of intranets. LDAP service has many great features, such as providing quick and advanced...

Charter on medical professionalism: putting the charter into practice.

The following letters from the readers of Annals represent just the kind of debate about professional ethics we had hoped the physician charter would engender. Seven members of the Medical Professionalism Project have responded accordingly. Although we could not hope to address every issue raised, one does seem salient throughout: the apparent conflict between a patient-centered ethic of care a...