Reactions to Victimisation: Why has Anger been Ignored?

Why have Pneumocystis carinii trophozoites been ignored?

Why has Not There been More Research of Concern?

Amid the renewed concern in the last several years about the potential for life science research to facilitate the spread of disease, a central plank of the policy response has been to enact processes for assessing the risks and benefits of "research of concern." The recent controversy regarding a proposed redaction of work on the modification of a H5N1 avian influenza virus is perhaps the most...

Why Optimistic Message Logging Has Not Been UsedIn

Much of the literature on message logging and checkpointing in the past decade has been based on a so-called optimistic approach 1] that places more emphasis on failure-free overhead than recovery ee-ciency. Our experience has shown that most telecommunications systems use a pessimistic approach because the main purpose of using message logging and checkpointing is to achieve fast and localized...

Collaborative Access Decisions: Why Has My Decision Not Been Enforced?

With the increasing popularity of collaborative systems like social networks, the risk of data misuse has become even more critical for users. As a consequence, there is a growing demand for solutions to properly protect data created and used within these systems. Enabling collaborative specification of permissions, while ensuring an appropriate levels of control to the different parties involv...

Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved?

While the scientific evidence for climate change grows, the policy responses have so far had little or no impact on the build-up of emissions. Current trends in emissions are adverse. The paper considers why the disconnect between science and policy exists and, in particular, why the Kyoto Protocol has achieved so little. Some contributing factors considered are: the focus on carbon production ...