TOO BUSY TO CARE?

Too Busy to Learn

The goal of this research is to analyze how individual learning interacts with an evolutionary algorithm in its search for best candidates for the Busy Beaver problem. To study this interaction two learning models, implemented as local search procedures, are proposed. Experimental results show that, in highly irregular and prone to premature convergence search spaces, local search methods are n...

Too busy to relax?

Today I am going to exercise. Finally! I plan to leave my offi ce early and go to the gym on my way home. I just need to complete a few telephone calls and I will be on my way. Suddenly, the emergency department calls. Mrs S. is back with congestive heart failure and will likely need admission. There goes my new resolution. By the time I leave the emergency department, it is time to go home, ha...

Are we too busy to be happy?

Too busy: why time is a health and environmental problem.

Time pressure is emerging as a modern malaise. It is linked to changes in working life, with longer work hours and faster work pace, and it is compounded in families; nowadays both parents must combine working with caring. Time pressure also challenges urban, health and environmental policy because many interventions have an unacknowledged time dimension. People need time to keep healthy, to ex...

Too many patients, too few cardiologists to care?

1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto; 2Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute; 3Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Ottawa, Ontario; 4Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; 5Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Correspondence: Dr H Ross, Toront...