Introduction The year 2007 marks the 15th anniversary of the landmark Rogers v Whitaker case, a watershed in Australian medico-legal history. When the decision was handed down in 1992, it caused a stir in the medical and associated health professions over the shift in emphasis from the standard of a reasonable doctor to that of a reasonable patient in terms of information provided to patients o...

This paper discusses whether recent proposals for so-called hypercomputation would, if realised in practice, invalidate the Church–Turing thesis. 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Geoff Spurling and colleagues report findings of a systematic review looking at the relationship between exposure to promotional material from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of prescribing. They fail to find evidence of improvements in prescribing after exposure, and find some evidence of an association with higher prescribing frequency, higher costs, or lower pres...

In the last several decades, policy makers have paid increasing attention to issues of environmental justice – the idea that the health burdens and risks of poor air quality and proximity to hazards are inequitably distributed by race and income. In 1994, for example, the Clinton administration adopted an executive order that made environmental justice a lens through which all federal environme...

OBJECTIVE The authors discuss empirical studies of human-automation interaction and their implications for automation design. BACKGROUND Automation is prevalent in safety-critical systems and increasingly in everyday life. Many studies of human performance in automated systems have been conducted over the past 30 years. METHODS Developments in three areas are examined: levels and stages of ...

Group communication is used in many file systems and storage controller systems. Ideally, there could be a single group communication system that serves the needs of all these various projects—software that was built once, tested once, and deployed everywhere. In reality, each project builds its own custom group services component. There are three reasons for this: most systems require only a f...

everal years ago, online 3D technology was expected to change the face of the Web. Industry observers said the technology would transform the Web from a static two-dimensional world into a dynamic, interactive 3D world ideal for commercial applications. However, the technology never found a killer app, never caught on with many users, and thus never became commercially successful, outside of vi...