The suicide safety plan is a plan of action created by the clinician and patient that essentially charts the course of what the patient should do if he/she begins to experience suicidal urges. It is important for clinicians to learn how to implement a safety plan so that they can offer this service to their patients and teach their colleagues and associates about suicide safety planning. The sa...

Interface agents aim at collaborating with a user in the use of a software application. An interface agent needs to understand what the user is doing to act always in the context of the users intention. Moreover, the agent should gradually learn how to better assist the user, adapting to his interests, habits and preferences. Acting in this way, the agent would not bother the user in an imprope...

In the present Part I, we will present some fundamental notions frequently used in economics. The sequence of the ideas to be discussed is not chosen arbitrarily. On the contrary, the discussion of each concept will generate a question leading directly to the following one. At the beginning of our journey through economic thinking we refer to the observation that human beings are endowed (and b...

In the present Part I, we will present some fundamental notions frequently used in economics. The sequence of the ideas to be discussed is not chosen arbitrarily. On the contrary, the discussion of each concept will generate a question leading directly to the following one. At the beginning of our journey through economic thinking we refer to the observation that human beings are endowed (and b...

In the present Part I, we will present some fundamental notions frequently used in economics. The sequence of the ideas to be discussed is not chosen arbitrarily. On the contrary, the discussion of each concept will generate a question leading directly to the following one. At the beginning of our journey through economic thinking we refer to the observation that human beings are endowed (and b...

Intelligent agents assisting users with repetitive tasks learn how these users perform these tasks and then they help users by making suggestions and, sometimes, by executing tasks on behalf of the users. Making queries to a relational database system is a repetitive and time-consuming task in which intelligent agents can be very helpful. In this work we present QueryGuesser, an intelligent age...

Bioethics is now taught in every Canadian medical school. Canada needs a cadre of teachers who can help clinicians learn bioethics. Our purpose is to encourage clinician teachers to accept this important responsibility and to provide practical advice about teaching bioethics to clinicians as an integral part of good clinical medicine. We use 5 questions to focus the discussion: Why should I tea...