In many developed countries, the concept of ra tioning healthcare services is treated as a taboo in the political debate. If someone argues in favor of certain types of explicit rationing, s/he immediately encounters fierce reactions by politicians and medical leaders and is sometimes even treated as if s/he had proposed euthanasia. The quotation above from the former German Health Minister Rös...

regarding the phrasing of a few of the sentences in the article. Moreover, in a small number of cases the author, while properly citing the source, should have used quotation marks around material written verbatim from that source. Although this was found to be in honest error, rather than issue a correction, the author has decided to retract the article.

The Exorcist (1971; “E”) by William Peter Blatty, one of horror’s all time greatest bestsellers, starts off with three quotations and three names. The first quotation is from the Bible, from the famous possession narrative in the gospel of Luke (8:27-30). The second is an excerpt from a FBI recording of two Mafia killers laughing and discussing how they had hung their victim on a meat hook and ...

In the electricity market environment, thermal power units have changed from executors of production under monopoly mechanism to decision-makers and operation competitive environment. The merits demerits bidding schemes for are directly related self-interest themselves. decisions plants not only affected by economic factors, but also technical factors peculiar system electric generator. recent ...

After publication of article [1], we became aware of the fact that sections of this article were taken verbatim without quotation from [2] and [3] listed below. In addition, ‘example 2’ and ‘algorithm 4.1’ as presented in this article are identical to ‘example 3.3’ from [3] and ‘algorithm 4.1’ from [2]. In light of these problems and in consultation with the journal's Section Editor for Mathema...

When firms operate in a make-to-order environment, they must set due dates (or lead times) which are both relatively soon in the future and can be met reliably in order to compete effectively. This can be a difficult task, since there is clearly an inherent tradeoff between short due dates, and due dates that can be easily met. Nevertheless, the vast majority of due date scheduling research ass...

Consider a familiar example of deferred ostention: pointing to a parked car just dented by a runaway driver, one says ‘he is going to have a bad day’, succeeding in referring thereby to the car’s owner. In deferred ostention, a demonstration picks out from the context an object or event; this is not the referent of the indexical to which the demonstration is associated, but an auxiliary with wh...