If You Love Arbitration, Set it Free: How 'Mandatory' Undermines 'Arbitration'

Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is It Just?

Fixing the Mandatory Arbitration Problem: We Need the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009

Margaret McCartney: politicians: if you love the NHS then set it free from your non-evidence based meddling.

The leaders of all UK political parties profess great love for the NHS. Everyone has ideas about its weaknesses and how to fix them. Many political commentators see the service as key to the imminent general election: it’s the closest thing we have to a national religion, which—at least in public—we all agree to believe in. Danny Boyle’s dancing nurses at the Olympics’ opening ceremony gave us ...

Arbitration (or How to Merge Knowledge Bases)

Knowledge-based systems must be able to “intelligently” manage a large amount of information coming from different sources and at different moments in time. Intelligent systems must be able to cope with a changing world by adopting a “principled” strategy. Many formalisms have been put forward in the AI and DB literature to address this problem. Among them, belief revision is one of the most su...

If You Own It, It Exists; If You Love It, That Says Something about You, Not It: Semantically Conditioned Case in Finnish

In Finnish, the object of a transitive verb is case marked in one of two ways: with the ACCUSATIVE or PARTITIVE case. Generally speaking, all Finnish transitive verbs are compatible with both accusative and partitive marked objects. Basically, which case is assigned can affect the interpretation assigned to a verb or its object. This suggests an instance of free variation in Finnish; that there...