Reaching Consensus on Organ Donation

Reaching Consensus on Decisions

We investigate how like-minded agents can reach consensus on their decisions even if they receive different information. The model used here was introduced by Aumann, and subsequently refined by Geanakoplos and Polemarchakis, Bacharach, Cave, Parikh and Krasucki ([Aum76,GP82,Cav83,Bac85,PK]). The main result is that when any number of like-minded agents communicate according to some fair protoc...

A primer on organ donation.

Reaching Consensus on Social Networks

Research in sociology studies the effectiveness of social networks in achieving computational tasks. Typically the agents who are supposed to achieve a task are unaware of the underlying social network except their immediate friends. They have limited memory, communication, and coordination. These limitations result in computational obstacles in achieving otherwise trivial computational problem...

Organ donation.

Transplantation is now an established form of treatment for organ failure in childhood. Much has been published on the outcome and management of children with organ transplants, the ethical issues have been widely discussed, and the criteria for the diagnosis of brain death have been established. Most transplanted organs are taken from donors who are brain dead but have a circulation and are be...

SURGEON GENERAt’S WORKSHOP ON lNCREAS.lNG ORGAN DONATION INTRODUCTION Historical Perspective on Organ Transplantation and Donation

Successful organ transplantation is one of the many medical miracles that have occurred in our extraordinary century. The dream is ancient. The well-known story of Cosmos and Damian, the martyred twin physicians who replaced the gangrenous limb of a white sacristan with that of a dead Moor, is visually recorded by. many artists. However, it was not until the 1900s that scientifically documented...