What should a scientist do with an anomalous experimental result (one which flies in the face of prevailing theories), which is statistically significant (at the five sigma + level), yet which cannot be repeated at will? This is the problem which plagued us early on in our non-plasma or "cold" fusion experiments which began in spring 1986 at Brigham Young University, 2.5 years before we heard o...

This thesis is composed by three independent essays on the limits of political accountability. In the first essay I analyze an extremely stylized model of political agency with two dimensional outcomes. I show that the non-contractible nature of rewards to the agent (the politician) is especially taxing when the voters want to control outcomes in more than one dimension. I compare and contrast ...

Nodes in distributed systems can become faulty due to multiple reasons: software or hardware bug, node misconfiguration or node being compromised by an attacker. Often such faulty nodes can be difficult to detect and localize. An approach to solve this problem is to hold each node accountable for its actions i.e. each node is required to provide verifiable evidence for its actions and detect a ...

citizen relationship management: study of its relationship with public participation, public accountability and transparency in 3’s region of city of tehran.this research seeks to study the role of citizen relationship management in the promotion of public participation, accountability and transparency of the public.this study aimed to identify the effect of increasing citizen relationship mana...

OBJECTIVE In health, accountability has since long been acknowledged as a central issue, but it remains an elusive concept. The literature on accountability spans various disciplines and research traditions, with differing interpretations. There has been little transfer of ideas and concepts from other disciplines to public health and global health. In the frame of a study of accountability of ...

While the patient safety field has emphasised 'systems thinking' as its central theme, experts have pointed to the need to balance this 'no blame' approach with the need for accountability in certain circumstances, such as failure to heed reasonable safety standards. Our growing appreciation of the importance of accountability raises several new questions, including the relative roles of person...

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