Mosquito researchers deny plotting secret biowarfare test

Deny-Guarantee Reasoning

Rely-guarantee is a well-established approach to reasoning about concurrent programs that use parallel composition. However, parallel composition is not how concurrency is structured in real systems. Instead, threads are started by ‘fork’ and collected with ‘join’ commands. This style of concurrency cannot be reasoned about using rely-guarantee, as the life-time of a thread can be scoped dynami...

In the complement of 'deny'

Epidemiology of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism

*Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Service Corps, US Army Reserve; Chief, Biodefense Epidemiology and Education and Training Programs, Operational Medicine Department, Division of Medicine, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1425 Porter Street, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702 †Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army; Graduate Student, Uniformed Services University of the Healt...

Biowarfare as a biopolitical icon

Nuclear warfare threat has been one of the main drive for cultural, political, economical and social changes in the late twentieth century, biological warfare threat is about to take it over. However, while nuclear warfare was a concrete possibility, biological warfare is just an elusive risk. This paper will explore some reasons for this apparent inconsistency by discussing biowarfare from a s...

To deny or not to deny surgical resection for pancreatic cancer to elderly patients?

Background Population over 65 years old represents the fastest growing group of overall population. Considering that almost 70% of pancreatic cancer patients are over 65 years old, therefore an increasing number of elderly patients should be considered for pancreatic resective surgery. The aim of our study is to compare the outcome after pancreatic resective surgery for cancer between young (un...