Charity wins BRCA2 patent

Canada. Monsanto wins split decision in patent fight over GM crop.

Charity ratings

How do charitable donors respond to the third party ratings that signal the quality of charities? I investigate this question using a novel data set from Charity Navigator which provides quality ratings for 5400 charities. Since Charity Navigator prominently displays a charity’s star rating which is assigned based on its overall rating, one can identify the causal impact of a one star increase ...

"Logic Wins!"

Clever algorithm design is sometimes superseded by simple encodings into logic. We apply this motto to a few case studies in the formal verification of security properties. In particular, we examine confidentiality objectives in hardware circuit descriptions written in VHDL.

Gambling, Who Wins

Gambling, Who Wins? Who loses?, edited by Gerda Reith, Ph.D, examines several wide-ranging yet important topics related to gambling. This multidisciplinary compilation of essays, some written by prominent scholars in their fields, examines such questions as: How can the alluring economic benefits of gambling be balanced against the potential harm caused to a significant minority? Is problem or ...

Charity and context

«Though truth and falsehood bee Neare twins, yet truth a little older is.» I Much of the contribution of contemporary philosophy to the problem of interpretation in anthropology is not a contribution to anthropology, but to what might be called a priori anthropology (Cooper 1986). This is an armchair speculation, far from the field, about the general requirements of the interpretation of belief...