To comprehend the results of a randomized, controlled trial (RCT), readers must understand its design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation. That goal can be achieved only through complete transparency from authors. Despite several decades of educational efforts, the reporting of RCTs needs improvement. Investigators and editors developed the original CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporti...

The study of judgment under uncertainty has revealed that people judge the probability of an event to be higher when the event is described as a disjunction of constituent events or when they judge constituent events separately. These observations have motivated the development of support theory (Y. Rottenstreich & A. Tversky, 1997; A. Tversky & D. J. Koehler, 1994), a descriptive model of judg...

Does the abstract follow the required format? Is there a description of what was studied and why? Is the question, hypothesis, or goal stated? Do the authors indicate how the study was performed? Does the abstract include the important results? Does the abstract include the answer to the question posed? Does the abstract include the authors’ conclusions? Does the abstract stand on its own in te...

This past year, Judge Richard Posner published a pair of essays endorsing the common law method of constitutional interpretation. “David Strauss is right,” he wrote, in a contribution to Slate’s annual Supreme Court Breakfast Table. “The Supreme Court treats the Constitution like it is authorizing the court to create a common law of constitutional law, based on current concerns, not what those ...

In this article author explores the law regulation of institute special pre-trial investigation criminal offenses considering changes. The light is shed on role public prosecutor in context motion trial during investigation. issue introducing changes to Chapter 241 Criminal Procedure Code Ukraine considered. grounds for conducting or court proceeding are analyzed. legislative consolidation poss...

Named entities in text are persons, places, companies, etc. that are explicitly mentioned in text using proper nouns. The process of finding named entities in a text and classifying them to a semantic type, is called named entity recognition. Resolution of named entities is the process of linking a mention of a name in text to a pre-existing database entry. This grounds the mention in something...

The robotic soccer is one of the complex multi-agent systems in which agents play the role of soccer players. The characteristics of such systems are: real-time, noisy, collaborative and adversarial. Because of the inherent complexity of this type of systems, machine learning is used for training agents. Since the main purpose of a soccer game is to score goals, it is important for a robotic so...