Ten years ago, Holm's highly influential paper "Goodbye to the simple solutions: the second phase of priority setting" was published [Holm S. Goodbye to the simple solutions: the second phase of priority setting in health care. British Medical Journal 1998;317:1000-7]. Whilst attending the 2nd International Conference on Priorities in Health Care in London, Holm argued that the search for a rat...

It is allowed that data of the content producer is cached anywhere in Content Centric MANET (CCMANET). This scheme decoupling of data from the data source make traditional end-end authentication transmission unavailable in CCMANET. So, it is a challenge how to ensure content publishing or subscribing only by legitimate users. In this paper, we firstly design a new Yaksha system on Elliptic Curv...

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is a candidate future Internet architecture that gives favorable promises in MANET environment. It is allowed that data of content producer is cached anywhere in Content Centric MANET (CCMANET). This scheme decoupling of data from the source make traditional end-end authentication transmission unavailable in CCMANET. To ensure high availability of the cached dat...

In practice, votes cast in parliamentary and related elections receive more weight as they are more representative. That practice is difficult to rationalize either from a juridical constitutional-democratic, or an economist preferential-choice point of view. On an applied-psychometric basis, the author presents a rationale by which voters are conceived as evaluators of political parties’ progr...

supreme jurists have focused on sixth verse of sura tobeh to legitimize refuge in islam and assigned it to unbelievers. however, deliberating on other verses of holy quran, traditions and juristically regulations we can justify new issues which haven’t mentioned by supreme jurists. referring to the juridical books and various interpretations of holy quran to develop the concept of refuge this e...