Hutchinson et al offer a compelling argument for greater attention to and work in corruption in healthcare. We indeed need to talk about corruption, to understand and to grasp how to prevent and address it. This paper lays out some of the rationale for how to define the research questions, how best to address corruption – arguing that governance rather than corruption may offer a preferred star...

Low-level attacks often rely on guessing absolute or relative memory addresses. Layout randomization aims to thwart such attacks. In this paper, we study layout randomization in a setting in which arrays and functions can be stored in memory. Our results relate layout randomization to language-level protection mechanisms, namely to the use of abstract locations (rather than integer addresses). ...

We explicitly construct soliton operators in D < 2 (or c < 1) string theory, and show that the Schwinger-Dyson equations allow solutions with these solitons as backgrounds. The dominant contributions from 1-soliton background are explicitly evaluated in the weak coupling limit, and shown to agree with the nonperturbative analysis of string equations. We suggest that fermions should be treated a...

Utmost care of human related issues are essentially required for sustainable growth of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of India, as these MSMEs are contributing enormously to socio-economic development of country. In this research, aspects related to human factors and functioning of MSMEs of India were studied. The investigation, based on a survey of 84 MSMEs of India cited that the...

In the last years, network measurements have shown a growing interest in active probing techniques. Recent works propose approaches based on the IP prespecified timestamp option and consider its support to be enough for their purposes. On the other hand, other works found that IP options are usually filtered, poorly implemented, or not widely supported. In this paper, to shed light on this cont...

Temporary organizations are known to provide flexibility for industries that rely on them, but we know little about their implications for how work is accomplished and coordinated. In this paper, I propose that common portrayals of temporary organizations as ephemeral and unstable are inaccurate: Temporary organizations are in fact organized around structured role systems whose nuances are nego...

The World Health Organization estimates that malaria annually causes hundreds of millions of illnesses, and more than half a million deaths. Surely these transaction costs of mosquito bites vastly exceed the value of the blood actually taken. In payment instruments, of course, a major goal is to reduce transaction costs, and intuitively cutting those costs seems especially urgent when they are ...