Public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, elucidate the strengths, weaknesses, and significant gaps in infrastructure, compatibility and consistency in communication systems, as well as the quality of collaborative relationships, and provider and workforce capacity.They also expose longstanding patterns of mistrust in the government
On the Existential side of the Eternalism-Presentism Dispute
Supplemental Feeding ABSTRACT The current analytical debate on time is full of attempts to adjudicate from a purely theoretical standpoint among competing temporal ontologies.Little attention has instead been devoted to the existential attitudes -- emotional or ethical -- that may lurk behind, or ensue from, the endorsement of one of them.Some inte
Accelerated maximum likelihood parameter estimation for stochastic biochemical systems
Abstract Background A prerequisite for the mechanistic simulation of a biochemical system is detailed knowledge of its kinetic parameters.Despite recent experimental advances, the estimation of unknown parameter values from observed data is still a bottleneck for obtaining accurate simulation results.Many methods exist for parameter estimation in d
Preparations to commit a crime<br> The Dutch approach to inchoate offences
In combating (organised) crime and terrorism, the emphasis is not placed on responding to committed offences, but on the thwarting thereof.For that reason, criminal law includes inchoate offences, which permit law enforcement intervention before the Golf Mat intended substantive offence is completed.In the last few years, inchoate offences have bee