Level 6B: Defeat Day Zero, Part 2

The day after an electoral defeat: counterfactuals and collective action.

An intriguing question for scholars of collective action is how participants of unsuccessful actions become re-engaged in future collective activities. At an individual level, previous research has shown that after negative outcomes counterfactual thoughts ('if only … ') may serve to prepare for future action. In the current research, we investigated whether counterfactuals may also prepare for...

Observation from Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerability Examples

Zero-Day vulnerabilities are an intriguing and ever increasing problem. Microsoft has been one of the more exploited companies having Zero-Day vulnerabilities. This paper intends to identify some relationships within the ZeroDay vulnerabilities identified in nineteen news articles from 2010. We tried to collect data on vulnerability report date, attack report date, vulnerability patch date, vul...

Making Inconsistency Respectable: Part 2 - Meta-level handling of inconsistency

Inconsistency in a database, when viewed purely logically, seem undesirable. Indeed the traditional approach to dealing with inconsistency in data is to employ means to restore consistency immediately. However, it is important to study the larger environment containing such databases, and the circumstances surrounding the inconsistency. We argue that within the larger environment, an inconsiste...

Part II . Two - Person Zero - Sum Games

Bone Marrow Transplantation in Thalassemia (Part 2)

During the last two decades conventional therapy has improved the prognosis of thalassemia. However, despite such improvement it still remains a progressive disease with treatment-related complications such as hepatitis, liver fibrosis, and cardiac disease. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can prevent or delay progression of the aforementioned complications. The importance of clinical research...