“Oriental affairs secretary” Semyon Avramov

Opening Remarks Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs

The Secretary-General expressed his intention last year to institute a Steering Group as a successor to the high-level Task Force that was established as a follow-up to the International Conference on Disarmament and Development, held at United Nations Headquarters in September 1987. In line with his intention, the Steering Group held its inaugural meeting in May and agreed on a programme to hi...

A message from the ERS President and the ERS Secretary for EU Affairs.

We would like to emphasise to European Respiratory Society (ERS) members and to all physicians and researchers dealing with respiratory diseases the importance of the editorial written by Adoración Navarro-Torné and distinguished colleagues from the Health Directorate of DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission. The authors rightly note that chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) (par...

Perspectives on coordination from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs.

Many teams from each of the different military services, as well as numerous civilian agencies, were involved in providing care to the victims, survivors, and family members of the September 11th attacks. However, the different teams initially had difficulties with communication and command and control issues. This article describes the perspective from Health Affairs on coordination of those e...

Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs: a history.

The secretary returns

In the online random-arrival model, an algorithm receives a sequence of n requests that arrive in a random order. The algorithm is expected to make an irrevocable decision with regard to each request based only on the observed history. We consider the following natural extension of this model: each request arrives k times, and the arrival order is a random permutation of the kn arrivals; the al...