Promoting generic medicines to increase access to essential medicines is relevant to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) and post 2015 goals. There are several barriers to encouraging wider use of generic medicines in health systems, e.g. the widely-held perception that low price equals low quality and misalignment of provider and consumer incentives. Overcoming the complex barriers ...

A nuclear war between Russia and the United States, even after the arsenal reductions planned under New START, could produce a nuclear winter. Hence, an attack by either side could be suicidal, resulting in selfassured destruction. Even a ÒsmallÓ nuclear war between India and Pakistan, with each country detonating 50 Hiroshima-size atom bombsÑonly about 0.03 percent of the global nuclear arsena...

An analytical investigation of a half-car model including passenger dynamics, subjected to random road disturbances is performed, and the advantage of active over conventional passive suspension systems are examined. Two diierent performance indices for optimal controller design are proposed. The performance index is a quantiication of both ride comfort and road handling. Due to practical limit...

This paper describes VServ, a prototype architecture for a virtual private network (VPN) service, which builds and manages VPNs on demand. It allows each VPN to have guaranteed resources and customized control, and supports a highly dynamic VPN service where creation and modification operations can take place on fast timescales. These features are contingent on the automated establishment and m...

P ublic concern about ethics in HIV-prevention trials intensifi ed in the last 18 months, reaching a fl ashpoint that resulted in the halting of two clinical trials to test the effi cacy of tenofovir as a possible method of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) against HIV infection. A reverse transcriptase inhibitor, tenofovir is viewed as a promising candidate for PREP because it is already being w...

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) has been studied extensively for its full potential in enabling exact-match queries on encrypted records. Yet, situations for similarity queries remain to be fully explored. In this paper, we design privacy-assured similarity search schemes over millions of encrypted high-dimensional records. Our design employs locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) and SSE, wher...