President's message: We must remain committed to scientific integrity

Why Pakistani Medical Graduates Must Remain Free to Emigrate

Student Forum T he current debate about the brain drain of health professionals from low-income countries such as Pakistan to the rich world often demonizes medical graduates who choose to leave their countries. Such graduates are sometimes considered to be insensitive to the plight of their country's struggling health sector. But what is forgotten in this debate is that some doctors who emigra...

Must we remain blind to undergraduate medical ethics education in Africa? A cross-sectional study of Nigerian medical students

BACKGROUND As the practice of medicine inevitably raises both ethical and legal issues, it had been recommended since 1999 that medical ethics and human rights be taught at every medical school. Most Nigerian medical schools still lack a formal undergraduate medical ethics curriculum. Medical education remains largely focused on traditional medical science components, leaving the medical studen...

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Reasoning about Message Integrity

We propose an approach for reasoning about message integrity protection in cryptographic protocols. The set of axioms presented herein relate design parameters and assumptions of message integrity protection mechanisms to generic message integrity threats. Comparison of threat properties derived using these axioms with the policy goals for integrity protection aids in assessing the strength (or...

Must Tool Building Remain a Craft? (Position Paper)

The building of tools is an important part of many research efforts, especially in the reverse engineering domain. However, despite the fact that many researchers build tools, it is still done in an ad hoc fashion, resembling a craft rather than professional engineering. In this paper, we give examples of why we believe that tool building is pursued in an ad hoc manner. We argue that in order t...