Reservations about Rushton

Some reservations about clinical guidelines.

Clinical guidelines are the current fashion. There are perhaps four main grounds for this. First, the realisation that the results of clinical research are not taken up promptly and translated into everyday clinical practice. For example, meta-analysis of all the trials for thrombolysis for myocardial infarction showed that there was good evidence that thrombolysis reduced mortality by the mid-...

Bounds: Expressing Reservations about Incoming Data

This paper introduces the Boundz vocabulary, an RDF vocabulary for expressing reservations about incoming data. We argue that the need for such a vocabulary is real and pressing, and that it is a useful validation tool for any recipient of RDF data that wishes to formulate restrictions on amendments in terms of the data it is already holding. The Boundz vocabulary has a simple mathematical theo...

Bounds: Expresssing Reservations about Incoming Data

This position paper presents generic constraints useful for expressing dependencies between source and target datasets in situations where the source is to be merged into the target and the target is particular with what data it is willing to accept. These constraints, which we call bounds, are based only on the graphlike triple structure of RDF graphs and draws ideas from of bisimulation from ...

Reservations about women: population policy and reproductive rights.

Assessing therapist reservations about exposure therapy for anxiety disorders: the Therapist Beliefs about Exposure Scale.

Exposure therapy is underutilized in the treatment of pathological anxiety and is often delivered in a suboptimal manner. Negative beliefs about exposure appear common among therapists and may pose a barrier to its dissemination. To permit reliable and valid assessment of such beliefs, we constructed the 21-item Therapist Beliefs about Exposure Scale (TBES) and examined its reliability and vali...