“Risk management” is a common phrase when managing information, used by everyone from the chief information security officer to the programmer to explain how we identify, assess, and prioritize risks. It thus reflects how we manage uncertainty as we attempt to control the probability and effect of unfortunate events. Depending on your IT-related experience and area of work, your view of risks w...

Catastrophic risks are rare events with major consequences, e.g. catastrophic climate change or extinction of a species. The article summarizes decision theory involving catastrophic risks within Von Neumann’s axiomatic theory of choice under uncertainty, and within new extensions of the theory that are speci…cally designed for rare events of major consequences. The classic expected utility the...

Background: Thus far important findings regarding the dementia syndrome have been implemented into patients' medical care only inadequately. A professional training accounting for both, general practitioners' (GP) needs and learning preferences as well as care-relevant aspects could be a major step towards improving medical care. In the WIDA-study, entitled "Knowledge translation on dementia in...

s we stand poised on the frontiers of biomedical science, populations worldwide face a broad range of health concerns as well as many different issues related to the conduct of clinical trials in international health research. The multiple contexts within which biomedical research proceeds call for an array of research designs in order to forge scientific developments and advance clinical knowl...