Visiting hospitals in Africa and meeting with clinicians, pathologists, and laboratory directors, it rapidly becomes apparent that confidence in any diagnostic services is lacking. Clinicians cite many reasons. Some days complete blood cell counts and chemistries are available, while on other days, because there are no reagents available, physicians have no results to guide treatment for their ...

Citizens of modern societies need access to information infrastructures that are reliable, secure, non-interruptible, and fault-tolerant. In October of 1997, President Clinton’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) announced that the United States’s infrastructure, which is responsible for relaying information and communications, is vulnerable to information warfare attacks ...

It has been shown that to provide a high standard of care general practitioners probably need to book consultations at intervals of at least 10 minutes. In this study the maximum list size for which a general practitioner might be expected to provide a high standard of care was determined from calculations of the time spent consulting, based on various consultation rates and list sizes and assu...

Systems The first speaker was Colonel Peter Kovats, United States Air Force, Chief of Aerospace Medicine at RAF Lakenheath UK. He spoke on Aeromedical Evacuation – ‘from point of wounding all the way home’. Colonel Kovats gave an extensive review of intra/inter-theatre air-evacuation and discussed 7656 patients injured in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2010. 15% were military coalition casualtie...

Time series data on cropping pattern at disaggregated level were analysed and its implications on geospatial drought assessment were demonstrated. An index of Cropping Pattern Dissimilarity (CP-DI) between a pair of years, developed in this study, proved that the cropping pattern of a year has a higher degree of similarity with that of recent past years only and tends to be dissimilar with long...

One of the names associated with advertising which is known outside the business, in addition to Saatchi and Saatchi, is David Ogilvy. He is a legendary figure who built up an agency of world renown which has only recently been bought by WPP Group plc. It is too early to say whether the new ownership will change much but we do know that the old agency was a remarkable one that borc the stamp of...

Implementations of cryptographic algorithms often perform computations in non-constant time, due to performance optimizations. If such operations involve secret parameters, these timing variations can leak some information and, provided enough knowledge of the implementation is at hand, a careful statistical analysis could even lead to the total recovery of these secret parameters. This idea, d...