Individual response to treatment: is it a valid assumption?

Strong-Cyclic Planning when Fairness is Not a Valid Assumption

We address the class of fully-observable nondeterministic (FOND) planning problems where non-deterministic actions are not guaranteed to display fair behaviour. Typical solutions to FOND planning problems either guarantee goal reachability with a bounded number of transitions (so-called strong acyclic solutions), or are predicated on a fairness assumption that presumes each action effect occurs...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Valence Shifting: Is It A Valid Task?

This paper looks at the problem of valence shifting, rewriting a text to preserve much of its meaning but alter its sentiment characteristics. There has only been a small amount of previous work on the task, which appears to be more difficult than researchers anticipated, not least in agreement between human judges regarding whether a text had indeed had its valence shifted in the intended dire...

Domenico solution--is it valid?

The Domenico solution is widely used in several analytical models for simulating ground water contaminant transport scenarios. Unfortunately, many textbook as well as journal article treatments of this approximate solution are full of empirical statements that are developed without mathematical rigor. For this reason, a rigorous analysis of this solution is warranted. In this article, we presen...

Estimating immunisation coverage: is the 'third dose assumption' still valid?

Immunisation coverage is calculated from Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) data using the 'third dose assumption'. This assumes that if the third in a series of vaccine doses has been recorded on the ACIR, the previous two doses have been received, whether or not they are recorded. The objectives of this study were to validate the 'third dose assumption', and measure the impact ...