Eric Claeys’s monograph, Natural Property Rights, offers a comprehensive and thoughtful articulation of general theory property rights rooted in the natural law tradition. This detailed review compares work with consequentialist economics perspective on property. After contrasting their objectives, assumptions, methodologies this article concludes that, unlike more absolutist approaches, flavor...

This paper investigates effects of interface style and cognitive style on problem solving performance. It is often assumed that performance improves when information is externalized onto the interface. Although relieving working memory this may discourage planning, understanding and knowledge acquisition. When information is not externalized, it must be internalized, stored in the user’s memory...

To the Editor: Donald McRae’s failure to adequately acknowledge Barnard’s brilliance, leadership and great contributions in his book entitled Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart1 is disappointing. This and Peter Folb’s thoughtful and well-researched ‘Special Review’ on the book2 led me to document some of my personal experiences with Barnard in the 40th anniversary...

Transformer model architectures have garnered immense interest lately due to their effectiveness across a range of domains like language, vision, and reinforcement learning. In the field natural language processing for example, Transformers become an indispensable staple in modern deep learning stack. Recently, dizzying number “X-former” models been proposed—Reformer, Linformer, Performer, Long...

We would like to thank the authors of “Response to a Proposal for an Integrative Medicine Curriculum.”1,2 We share their commitment to respectful collaboration among diverse health professionals, and are grateful for the thoughtful, detailed, constructive concerns and suggestions expressed in the paper. The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) (www.imconsortiu...

This article presents a new real-time heuristic search method for planning problems with distinct stages. Our multistage nested rollout algorithm allows the user to apply separate heuristics at each stage of the search process and tune the search magnitude for each stage. We propose a searchtree compression that reveals a new state representation for the games of Klondike Solitaire and Thoughtf...

In the standard numerical anchoring paradigm, the influence of externally provided anchors on judgment is typically explained as a result of elaborate thinking (i.e., confirmatory hypothesis testing that selectively activates anchor-consistent information in memory). In contrast, theories of attitude change suggest that the same judgments can result from relatively thoughtful or non-thoughtful ...

Guest Editors’ introduction For this special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics we have assembled articles that reflect some of the newer issues or fresh perspectives. There is a mix of approaches including forward looks, present dilemmas and reflections on the past, now that suYcient time has elapsed to allow a considered view. We are most grateful to our wide range of contributors for the...

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 ...