Line-Item Veto: Where Is Thy Sting?

Cell death--where is thy sting?

Fish mutant, where is thy phenotype?

The field of genetics emerged as a study of the inheritance of desirable or otherwise interesting traits. Mutations were characterized as recessive or dominant, assigned to complementation groups, mapped, and finally, the affected genes were identified. By default, recessive mutations could only be isolated in genes that played an important role in the biological process of interest, be it pea ...

where is the problem?

where is the problem? health scientists are constantly trying to support people by diagnosing, managing the diseases, and improving health in all possible dimensions. attention has been drawn to all aspects of health including biological, psychological, social and spiritual. the problem may lay in behavior, clinical issues, organ cites, genome and epigenome. thus it falls on us, the medical soc...

Veto is Impossible in Secret Sharing Schemes

Beutelspacher considered a secret sharing scheme having a veto capability such that quali ed minorities can prevent any other set of participants from reconstructing the secret. In this paper, we prove that there exist no such schemes if we do not assume that the reconstruction machine is trustworthy.

Prosecuting psychiatric inpatients--where is the thin blue line?

Violence by psychiatric inpatients is under-reported and the involvement of the police is limited. No research has specifically investigated the views of the police force in this area. Ten senior police officers were interviewed using a semi-structured format to elucidate their views. A thematic analysis of the results highlighted training needs, and concerns around the public interest and evid...