We investigate how the behaviors of malicious trusted parties affect participants of optimistic non-repudiation protocols. We introduce a notion of risk balance for exchange protocols. Intuitively, risk balance refers to fairness in the amount of protection a protocol offers to the participants against malicious trustees. We explore how risk balance relates to the notions of accountable trustee...

Higher education systems in Europe are currently undergoing profound transformations. At the macro-level, there is an increase in the number of students enrolled, subjects of study offered, and university missions that have gained legitimacy over time. At the second level changes are evident at the level of university governance. New Public Management reforms have put into question the traditio...

Academic health centers (AHCs) have long been the exemplars of medicine in the United States. They produce “breakthrough” research, pioneer new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and train the best and brightest future physicians with emphasis on specialists and subspecialists. Today, they face a perilous future because the health care economic system that supports this enterprise is fad...

On July 1, 2006, the Medical University of Ohio officially merged with the University of Toledo and became the third largest public institution of higher education in the state of Ohio. The combination of the two neighboring institutions occurred through the efforts of a number of individuals who recognized the potential advantages of a merger and worked quickly through challenges by early enga...

A Catalogue ofPrinted Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. II-Books printed from 1641 to 1850 A-E, London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. xi, 540, £10 10s. The second part of the Wellcome Catalogue of Printed Books, of which this volume is the first instalment, covers a period much less fully explored by bibliographers and historians than the first volume which ...

I open with the simple observation that large amounts of information about the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world are becoming available online. While grounded in specific examples, this chapter is interested in the sources of that information and how diverse entities contribute to, link to, copy or otherwise reuse resources that are discoverable on the public Internet. The mai...

The leadership and boards of trustees of all healthcare organizations are the ultimate stewards of the limited resources available to best meet community needs. The strategic planning process leads the organization down a clear path of setting priorities, making choices, and taking action. The day a new cancer center opens or the latest technology arrives is an exciting one for the community. A...

These are exciting times to be at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). The size and diversity of databases at MCHP provide an unprecedented opportunity to conduct population health and health services research and research into the determinants of health. Current holdings now represent over 90 databases of health, education, social services, survey and clinical data, as well as instrum...

After a period of financial losses in the University of Pennsylvania Health System stemming from a combination of internal decision making and negative external market forces, the university set out to make substantial changes in the governance and administrative organization overseeing its health system and medical school. The changes were designed to assure the university and its trustees tha...