commentary

there are different commentaries on rumi’s masnavi, each focusing on it from different pints of view such as literary aesthetics, mysticism, philosophy and subject matter. these various commentaries – including those by reynold nicholson, jafar shahidi, mohammad estelami and karim zamani – make their comparison and contrast inevitable. despite their great affinity, they are different from each ...

This commentary on the recent think piece by Mannion and Exworthy reviews their core arguments, highlighting their suggestion that recent forces for personalization have emerged which may counterbalance the strong standardization wave which has been evident in many healthcare settings and systems over the last two decades. These forces for personalization can take very different forms. The comm...

This Commentary forms a response to Nikogosian’s and Kickbusch’s forward-looking perspective about the legal strength of international health instruments. Building on their arguments, in this commentary we consider what we can learn from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for the adoption of new legal international health instruments.

this commentary reflects upon the article along three broad lines. it reflects on the theoretical choices and omissions, particularly highlighting why it is important to adapt the multiple streams framework (msf) when applying it in a socio-political context like vietnam’s. the commentary also reflects upon the analytical threads tackled by ha et al; for instance, it highlights the opportunitie...

We present techniques which may be used to perform computations of very high accuracy using only straightforward oating point arithmetic operations of limited precision, and we prove the validity of these techniques under very general hypotheses satissed by most implementations of oating point arithmetic. To illustrate the application of these techniques, we present an algorithm which computes ...

We examine the cost for an attacker to pay users to execute arbitrary code—potentially malware. We asked users at home to download and run an executable we wrote without being told what it did and without any way of knowing it was harmless. Each week, we increased the payment amount. Our goal was to examine whether users would ignore common security advice—not to run untrusted executables—if th...

We introduce a new approach which facilitates the calculation of the covering radius of a binary linear code. It is based on determining the normalized covering radius p. For codes of fixed dimension we give upper and lower bounds on p that arc reasonably close. As an application, an explicit formula is given for the covering radius of an arbitrary code of dimension <4. This approach also sheds...