Being the Very Best

Being the Best Bearer of Bad Tidings

Giving bad news is an unpleasant task, and the medical literature provides numerous guidelines for giving bad news well. However, what people mean by “giving bad news well” is less clear. What should be the goal when communicating bad news? The authors suggest that the goal of news-givers should be to guide recipients toward a desired response and the authors propose a theoretical framework, th...

On being very, very old: an insider's perspective.

When I began to think about my perspective as a very very old person, I found that I was writing both from my perspective as a gerontologist and from my perspective as an individual grown old. The reason for my dual perspective is that I was born in 1922, at a time when the aging population was growing rapidly, and I lived through several ensuing macroprocesses that would have major effects on ...

A study on: the quiddity of the absolute Truth is just the same as Its very Being

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The Best Way to Instil Confidence Is by Being Right

Instilling confidence in the abilities of machine learning systems in end-users is seen as critical to their success in real world problems. One way in which this can be achieved is by providing users with interpretable explanations of the system’s predictions. CBR systems have long been understood to have an inherent transparency that has particular advantages for explanations compared with ot...

Hepatitis A vaccine: is it being used to best advantage?