Part of the second goal of the project was to develop information that could help organizations hoping to develop and commercialize medical devices to understand the managed care market environment and to prepare accordingly. We asked interview respondents representing manufacturers to offer advice for such organizations. Interview respondents generally offered extensive and thoughtful answers ...

The present study investigates how advice writers employ move sequences and modal verbs to achieve intended discourse functions. This paper aims to testify two research hypotheses: 1. Advice writers of different topics employ different moves and modal verbs to achieve discourse function, and 2. The differences may imply writers’ intentions, emotion and expectancy of effects on the readers to in...

abstract background and objective: often, discharge of children against medical advice has a negative effect on the well-being of the patient. to determine the prevalence of discharge against medical advice (dama) among hospitalized children and examine the reasons given by parents/guardians for such discharges. methods: a retrospective 2-year medical records audit of children aged one day to 1...

Undergraduate students (N = 97) used an introductory text and a computer simulation to learn fundamental concepts about statistical analyses (e.g., analysis of variance, regression analysis and General Linear Model). Each learner was randomly assigned to one cell of a 2 (with or without instructional advice) x 2 (with or without time advice) x 2 (with or without learning questions) between subj...

Karp and Lipton introduced advice-taking Turing machines to capture nonuniform complexity classes. We study this concept for automata-like models and compare it to other nonuniform models studied in connection with formal languages in the literature. Based on this we obtain complete separations of the classes of the Chomsky hierarchy relative to advices.

The value that brokers generate depends on both the quality of their investment recommendations and their clients’ counterfactual portfolios. To identify counterfactual portfolios inside a defined contribution retirement plan, we exploit time-series variation in access to brokers. When brokers are available, the correlations with age, income, and educational attainment suggest that brokers are ...

Adversarial multiarmed bandits with expert advice is one of the fundamental problems in studying the exploration-exploitation trade-off. It is known that if we observe the advice of all experts on every round we can achieve O (√ KT lnN ) regret, where K is the number of arms, T is the number of game rounds, and N is the number of experts. It is also known that if we observe the advice of just o...