Transcendent Professionalism

Transcendent professionalism: keeping promises and living the questions.

Wynia and colleagues propose a definition of professionalism as a belief system by which to shape health care rather than a list of values and behaviors. The belief that professionalism is the best way to organize and deliver health care constitutes a promise to society. The notion that the medical profession as a whole as well as its individual members should be held accountable to standards o...

Transcendent communities

Online communities are potential arenas for informal and lifelong learning. Even though technology fosters internal sharing and collaboration in online communities, it also presents excessively strong external boundaries. These silo-like structures lead to fragmentation, counteracting cross-community collaboration and interdisciplinary learning. We are revising our own online community software...

Professionalism.

Asymptotic behavior of the Lerch transcendent function

For complex parameters λ and s, consider the Lerch transcendent Φ(λ, s, z) = ∑∞ k=0 λ (k + z)−s as a function of the complex variable z. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of this function as Re s→ −∞.

Finding the self in self-transcendent emotions.

E motion research has something in common with a drunk searching for his car keys under a street lamp. ‘‘Where did you lose them?’’ asks the cop. ‘‘In the alley,’’ says the drunk, ‘‘but the light is so much better over here.’’ For emotion research, the light shines most brightly on the face, whose movements can be coded, compared across cultures, and quantified by electromyography. All of the ‘...