Abstract In this article, I offer a novel account of why compromising in politics is likely to involve the kind politically admirable but morally wrongful behavior at stake dirty hands thesis. On view defend, politicians do not their just because they compromise on matters principle. Rather, when forging political compromise, negotiators can either comply with requirements ethical compromise-ma...

t is a challenging time to be taking up the reins of Sexually Transmitted Infections. After a prolonged period of decline, there are epidemics of bacterial STIs in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, including outbreaks of syphilis. HIV continues to escalate; the prevalence of HIV is escalating due to persistent or rising incidence combined with increased survival. Globally we face major epi...

The issue of doctors’ pay is once again under the spotlight. profession remains divided over how important is, debating whether proposed 1% rise just another kick in teeth. To put this into context, has failed to keep pace with inflation for successive years, extent that we are now facing a 7% cut real terms past 10 years.1 And it’s not been eroded. current NHS pension offering about half what …

This article uses seasonal integration and co integration techniques to test the hypothesis of neutrality of money, using data from the Iranian economy. Seasonal data for the three variables of money supply, output and prices show that (increase in) money supply and the price level are co integrated at zero frequency, but one does not see such a relationship between (increase in) money supply a...

There are two either explicitly or implicitly and widely accepted ideas about the distribution of land in Ethiopia after the reform of 1975. First, land distribution in rural Ethiopia is highly equitable, for example compared to other African countries where private ownership exists. Second, the land distribution pattern currently observed is basically explained by what happened after the refor...

The Research and Development Division (RDD) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has a remit to build research capacity and conduct policy relevant research. By being situated within the GHS, RDD has good access to directors and programme managers, within and beyond the Ministry of Health. This structure has been facilitating collaboration through research cycles for 20 years, from agenda setting ...

→ Security weakness (Kerckhoffs's framework). Code book estimable on a simplified version [2]. → High computational complexity of the Embedding part Lin et al. [3] solution is not enough satisfying in term of robustness-distortion tradeoff. → DCT artifacts. [1] “Applying Informed Coding and Informed Embedding to Design a Robust, High Capacity Watermark”, Miller, Doërr, and Cox, IEEE TIP 2004. [...