: Sudanese Ethics . Tore Nordenstam.

Disagreement and Authority by Tore

Can two negotiators fail to agree when both the size of the surplus and the rationality of the negotiators are common knowledge? We show that the answer is affirmative. When the negotiators can make irrevocable commitments at a low but positive cost, the unique symmetric equilibrium entails disagreement with high probability. In the unique pair of pure strategy equilibria, one party gets all th...

From Voicing to Naming Tore-humanization

Rickets in Sudanese Children

1. Vitamin D-Defficiency or Infantile Rickets: This is extremely rare in the Sudan owing to the availability of sun-shine throughout the year. Since infantile rickets is common in some other African countries where sun-shine is also constant throughout the year, other factors, which obstruct the natural ultraviolet irradiation e.g. crowded housing and overprotection of infants must be operating...

Assessing patient satisfaction with Sudanese doctors

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...

Coeliac disease in Sudanese children.

Coeliac disease has not hitherto been documented in Sudanese children. This report describes seven Sudanese children with coeliac disease of whom two are siblings. They all had evidence of impaired intestinal absorption, severe histological changes of their jejunal mucosa with clinical and histological improvement on gluten free/sorgham free diet. Subsequently one patient had a clinical relapse...