Universal consent form might help

Why humans might help strangers

Humans regularly help strangers, even when interactions are apparently unobserved and unlikely to be repeated. Such situations have been simulated in the laboratory using anonymous one-shot games (e.g., prisoner's dilemma) where the payoff matrices used make helping biologically altruistic. As in real-life, participants often cooperate in the lab in these one-shot games with non-relatives, desp...

Ieee Copyright and Consent Form

The trend in architectural designs has been towards using simple cores for building multicore chips, instead of a single complex out-of-order (OOO) cores, due to the increased complexity and energy requirements of out of order processors. Multicore chips provide better performance when compared with OOO cores while executing parallel applications. However, they are not able to exploit the paral...

An IRB's consent form survey.

Recently, the University of Pittsburgh's Biomedical Institutional Review Board (IRB) undertook a survey to determine certain aspects of the informed consent procedure. We chose one new protocol from each principal investigator who submitted one or more protocols for IRB approval. The time period surveyed was July 1, 1982, to June 30, 1983, which should have uncovered research recently completed...

Ieee Copyright and Consent Form

This paper investigates the statistical detection of Jsteg steganography. The approach is based on the statistical model of Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) coefficients. The hidden information detection problem is case in the framework of Hypothesis testing theory. In an ideal context where all model parameters are perfectly known, the Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) is presented and its perfo...

Consent form versus doctor-patient relationship.