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How the WTO Could Be Improved

AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

Should new antimalarial drugs be subsidized?

Malaria kills over a million people each year. The loss of chloroquine due to the spread of parasite resistance is largely responsible for the resurgence of malaria. A new class of antimalarial drugs called artemisinins are available, but are unaffordable to most people in malaria-endemic countries and may quickly face the same fate as chloroquine unless they are combined with a partner drug. S...

Could SFLASH be Repaired?

The SFLASH signature scheme stood for a decade as the most successful cryptosystem based on multivariate polynomials, before an efficient attack was finally found in 2007. This attack belongs to a new generation of cryptanalysis which targets geometrical properties of multivariate functions. It works particularly well on SFLASH due to its simple structure but further applications are emerging. ...

Could platelet indices be new biomarkers for inflammatory bowel diseases?

BACKGROUND AND AIM Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are chronic inflammatory diseases. Many serum biomarkers have been studied for diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Platelets play an important role in inflammation. The aim of the present study is to determine whether platelet indices; mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribut...

Strange Bedfellows Could HR be marketing ’ s new best friend ?