BACKGROUND Multiple laboratory tests are used in the diagnosis and management of patients with diabetes mellitus. The quality of the scientific evidence supporting the use of these assays varies substantially. APPROACH An expert committee compiled evidence-based recommendations for the use of laboratory analysis in patients with diabetes. A new system was developed to grade the overall qualit...

BACKGROUND Multiple laboratory tests are used in the diagnosis and management of patients with diabetes mellitus. The quality of the scientific evidence supporting the use of these assays varies substantially. APPROACH An expert committee compiled evidence-based recommendations for the use of laboratory analysis in patients with diabetes. A new system was developed to grade the overall qualit...

The workshop was chaired by Barrie Margetts and attended by about twenty people. The purpose was to share information about the International Committee of The Nutrition Society (ICONS) and the progress of the Information Sheets, and to discuss other ways of supporting overseas members. Barrie outlined the structure and role of ICONS which has taken over the functions of the Task Force on Overse...

OBJECTIVE The authors discuss the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed for a resident to be competent in supporting and working with families, as mandated by the residency review committee (RRC) core competencies. METHODS The RRC core competencies, as they relate to patients and their families, are reviewed. The Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) presents an operational version of t...

We consider approval-based committee voting, i.e. the setting where each voter approves a subset of candidates, and these votes are then used to select a fixedsize set of winners (committee). We propose a natural axiom for this setting, which we call justified representation (JR). This axiom requires that if a large enough group of voters exhibits agreement by supporting the same candidate, the...

This paper studies both theoretically and experimentally a committee decision-making problem. Committee members are career oriented, they care about taking the right decision and may be biased towards one of the alternatives. We investigate how the interaction between career concerns and bias a↵ects the behavior of members and how this e↵ect depends on transparency of individual votes. We show ...

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We present theoretical investigations via the replica theory of the storage capacities of committee machines with a large numberM of hidden units and spherical weights. Difficulties arise in the solution of this problem in the limit of large M . In the case of overlapping receptive fields, as the number of patterns increases, both permutation symmetry and replica symmetry are broken, which lead...

This paper studies both theoretically and experimentally a committee decision-making problem. Committee members are career oriented, they care about taking the right decision and may be biased towards one of the alternatives. We investigate how the interaction between career concerns and bias a↵ects the behavior of members and how this e↵ect depends on transparency of individual votes. We show ...

1.2 Development The preliminary guidelines were compiled from the literature and a first document was drafted by Dr J Nightingale and modified by members of the Small Bowel and Nutrition Committee under the chairmanship of Dr B Jones. A section on ‘‘intestinal transplantation’’ was written by Dr Woodward and added with the approval of the Small Bowel and Nutrition Committee. The resulting docum...