Cytotec in Brazil: ‘At least it doesn't kill’

IT Does Matter (At Least When It Is Properly Managed)

The works of (Ackoff, 1967), (Dearden, 1972), and more recently (Carr, 2003) argue that IT is becoming a commodity. From their perspective, IT is not so much a source of competitive advantage, but more of a mundane requirement of the environment similar to electrical service and other utilities. Carr presents several compelling arguments to support his commodity view of IT. We feel that such a ...

When you least expect it.

Factors associated with breastfeeding practice for at least six months in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

INTRODUCTION Despite the scientific consensus on the benefits that breastfeeding provides for the mother, the baby, the family and the environment, and also the recommendation to breastfeed exclusively for six months, this practice is far from being achieved. OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for at least six month, as opposed to weaning up to the ...

Whatever Does Not Kill Deep Reinforcement Learning, Makes It Stronger

Recent developments have established the vulnerability of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) to policy manipulation attacks via adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we investigate the robustness and resilience of deep RL to training-time and test-time attacks. Through experimental results, we demonstrate that under noncontiguous trainingtime attacks, Deep Q-Network (DQN) agents can recover a...

Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: what does it mean? (or it takes at least two to tango).

Shared decision-making is increasingly advocated as an ideal model of treatment decision-making in the medical encounter. To date, the concept has been rather poorly and loosely defined. This paper attempts to provide greater conceptual clarity about shared treatment decision-making, identify some key characteristics of this model, and discuss measurement issues. The particular decision-making ...