LOOK, KNAVE

KNAVE-II: A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Visualization and Intelligent Exploration of Time-Oriented Clinical Data

Interpretation and exploration of longitudinal clinical data is a major part of diagnosis, therapy, quality assessment, and clinical research, particularly for chronic patients. KNAVE-II is an intelligent interface to a distributed architecture specific to the tasks of query, knowledge-based interpretation, summarization, visualization, interactive exploration of large numbers of distributed ti...

Evaluation of KNAVE-II: a Tool for Intelligent Query and Exploration of Patient Data

We present the results of a preliminary evaluation of KNAVE-II, a distributed knowledge-based computational framework for visualization, interpretation, and exploration of longitudinal clinical data and of multiple levels of concepts derivable from these data. KNAVE-II uses a distributed architecture to access at run-time clinical time-oriented data, a domain-specific knowledge base containing ...

Beyond the Bad Man and the Knave: Law and the interdependence of motivational vectors

Holmes' recommendation was that, as a positive matter, law as a social fact is constituted by the predictions of the bad man about the likely application of public force in cases that might involve his behavior. Coupled with David Hume's normative recommendation that “in contriving a system of government... every man ought to be supposed to be a knave and to have no other end, in all his action...

A look back and a look ahead.

The author reviews a series of predictions made more than two decades ago regarding nursing and nursing administration. These concerned the work of nursing, the workers involved in nursing, the environment surrounding practice, and the nurse's role. While many of the forecasts were right on target, others fell short of the mark; both are discussed in light of the challenges facing nurse adminis...

A look back, a look ahead.