We Faithful Few

Trust, entrustment decisions and a few things we shouldn’t forget

For many decades, medical educators have been struggling with assessment, as illustrated by the predominance of assessment in medical education research as well as the ongoing profound and sometimes heated discussions about how to best assess trainees’ competence and development [1–3]. In any event, efforts to change assessment systems are oriented towards the goal of improving health care qual...

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Practicing What We Preach: Understanding Inhibitors to the Faithful Use of Project Management Practices

Effective management of software development efforts is one of the most challenging aspects within the IT discipline today. Literature has greatly extended our understanding of project management (PM) practices that enhance the likelihood of software development project success, such as the use of scope change control to manage project changes or structured walkthroughs to enhance product congr...

Faithful Squashed Entanglement

Squashed entanglement is a measure for the entanglement of bipartite quantum states. In this paper we present a lower bound for squashed entanglement in terms of a distance to the set of separable states. This implies that squashed entanglement is faithful, that is, it is strictly positive if and only if the state is entangled. We derive the lower bound on squashed entanglement from a lower bou...

Cytosine Methylation: Remaining Faithful

DNA methyltransferase-1 (DNMT1) has a higher specific activity on hemimethylated DNA than on unmethylated DNA, but this preference is too small to explain the faithful mitotic inheritance of genomic methylation patterns. New genetic studies in plants and mammals have identified a novel factor that increases the fidelity of maintenance methylation.