Editor’s choice: the best of 2011–2012

Editor’s choice: the best of 2011–2012

Correspondence: Roger M Pinder 2 St Wilfrid’s Court, Monkgate, York YO31 7UQ, UK Tel +44 190 464 6684 Email [email protected] There were three papers in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment that attracted the most attention in the last year, all recording more than 10,000 hits since publication. Varying widely in subject matter, by far the most popular of the trio, with almost 30,000 hit...

Analyzing the Best Choice of Qatar Foreign Policy Towards Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Framework of Game theory

Since developments of the Arab world in 2011, Qatar has sought to introduce itself an important regional actor. Qatar's desire to engage in regional equations has contrasted with the policies of traditional actors such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. These paper tries to explain Qatar's foreign policy toward its regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia, through statistical and mathematical data, by lin...

Best Choice from the Planar Poisson Process

Various best-choice problems related to the planar homogeneous Poisson process in finite or semi-infinite rectangle are studied. The analysis is largely based on properties of the onedimensional box-area process associated with the sequence of records. We prove a series of distributional identities involving exponential and uniform random variables, and resolve the Petruccelli-Porosinski-Samuel...

Is Option B+ the best choice?

I was surprised to read the Editorial on Palestinian minors in Israeli prisons (March 16, p 876), in which there was no room given for any comment from the Israeli side. As a result, it turned out to be completely one-sided and unbalanced. Checking the facts with the Israeli authorities might have clarifi ed that the UNICEF report in question is already being reviewed in Israel, and many change...

Making the Best First Choice Antibiotic Selections