Questioning ‘fees must fall’

Must doctors disclose their fees before treatment?

The bioethical principles of patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice or fairness require doctors to disclose their fees before treating patients. The provisions regarding disclosures about fees in the Health Professions Act and National Health Act are in conflict. Those in the National Health Act are likely to be applied by the courts to impose a legal duty on healthcare prac...

Ola: What Goes Up, Must Fall Down

We have made a robot soccer model using LEGO Mindstorms robots, which was shown at RoboCup98 during the World Cup in soccer in France 1998. For the robot soccer model, we constructed a stadium out of LEGO pieces, including stadium light, rolling commercials, moving cameras projecting images to big screens, scoreboard and approximately 1500 small LEGO spectators who made the “Mexican wave” as kn...

Indistinguishability Obfuscation vs. Auxiliary-Input Extractable Functions: One Must Fall

We show that if there exist indistinguishability obfuscators for all circuits then there do not exist auxiliary-input extractable one-way functions. In particular, the knowledge of exponent assumption with respect to adversaries with auxiliary input is false in any group where computing discrete logarithms is intractable. The proof uses the “punctured programs” technique of [Sahai-Waters 2013].

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Clinical trials of Ebola vaccine must continue despite fall in number of cases.

Clinical trials of a vaccine against Ebola virus disease being conducted in west Africa must continue even if there are not enough definitive data on the vaccine’s effectiveness, a report by a panel of international experts has said. The panel, convened by theWellcome Trust and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, urged the continuation of the trials ...