Dismissed researcher wins court battle

Coors Wins Battle Over Beer Labels

Establishing the Irish Critical Care Trials Group: 'who wins in battle makes many calculations before the battle is fought'

Quality research, requiring large numbers of participants, in the intensive care unit (ICU) population requires multicentre collaboration. Although logistically challenging, this methodology reduces the influence of individual units and has greater validity and broader relevance to patients and practitioners. The nascent Irish Critical Care Trials Group opens additional such opportunities. In t...

Mario Ullrich Wins the 2015 Joseph F. Traub Information-Based Complexity Young Researcher Award

Mario Ullrich, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, is the winner of this annual award. The award is given for significant contributions to information-based complexity by a young researcher who has not reached their 35th birthday by September 30th the year of the award. The award consists of $1000 and a plaque. The plaque will be presented at the IBC Conference in Bedlewo, Poland, August...

The Battle of Taste Buds and Environmental Convictions : Which One Wins ?

Much has been said about ecolabeling in the last few years, with several studies investigating hypothetical consumer demand for ecolabeled seafood products, where the label indicates no overfishing of the stocks. Most studies have focused on consumers choosing between labeled and unlabeled products of the same species. In a recent survey done in the US, consumers were asked to trade-off amongst...

Worm Versus Alert: Who Wins in a Battle for Control of a Large-Scale Network?

Consider the following game between a worm and an alert over a network of n nodes. Initially, no nodes are infected or alerted and each node in the network is a special detector node independently with small but constant probability. The game starts with a single node becoming infected. In every round thereafter, every infected node sends out a constant number of worms to other nodes in the pop...