The Relentless Business of Treaties

The relentless therapeutic imperative.

many helpful comments; and the Thai teachers and students who received us with such great friendliness. We also thank Ronald Frankenberg for supervision of AW's fieldwork and Kimberly Rosegger for help with the manuscript. Contributors and sources: Both authors have a German medical background and currently teach anatomy to medical students. This paper arose from AW's MSc dissertation in medica...

The relentless flu drug.

238 men with diagnoses other than testicular cancer attending the same radiotherapy centres as those attended by the cases, and 251 hospital in-patients not attending radiotherapy departments. Logistic regrcssion analyses were performed, after stratifying by age and region of residence, to estimate the relative risks (RRs) associated with various aspects of prior medical history. The risk of te...

Counterfeit Drugs: The Relentless War in Africa

In Nigeria, it was reported in 2009 that 84 children were killed as a result of toxic chemicals that were laced with teething medications for babies [1]. In 2012, Angolan custom agents busted counterfeiters importing what turned out to be the largest fake medicine imports in history, when containers shipped from China to Luanda were filled with over 1.4 million packets of fake antimalarial drug...

Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties

Relentless Congestion Control

Relentless congestion control is a simple modification to AIMD congestion control: instead of halving cwnd after a loss, cwnd is reduced by the number of lost segments. It can be modeled as a strict implementation of Van Jacobson’s Packet Conservation Principle. Relentless congestion control has exactly unity gain, which is expected to make it much easier for network devices to accurately contr...