The development and evolution of any system–person, organization–nation depends on how the system succeeds to bridge the gap between what the system knows and what the system does (with the knowledge). We call this the gap between knowing and doing or the knowing-doing gap. If the system does not do what it knows, it will lose out in competition with other systems, its relative performance in...

This poem is commentary on our dominant paradigm of epidemiological knowledge production racial health inequities. The core animating concern here structural racism—not just as a thing ‘out there’ to study in relation inequities, but also ‘in here’ that shapes how we do what and who gets it—that is, epistemic methodological norms, matters inclusion representation raise questions about procedura...

Although much work in NLP has focused on simply determining what a document means, we also must know whether or not to believe it. Fact-finding algorithms attempt to identify the “truth” among competing claims in a corpus, but fail to take advantage of the user’s prior knowledge and presume that truth itself is universal and objective rather than subjective. We introduce a framework for incorpo...

To enhance communication among users through technology, we propose a framework that communicates ‘pure experience.’ This framework can be achieved by providing emotionally charged communication. To initiate this undertaking, we propose to explore materials for communicating human emotions. Research on emotion mainly focuses on emotions that are relevant to utilitarian concerns. Besides the com...

Page In the knowing approach, rather than study knowledge as something that people have, the authors focus the process of knowing regarded as something that people do. The social dimension of knowing, enhanced the tacitness of collective knowledge instead of individual mastery within communities of practices and communities of knowing. The assumption of a coherent research perspective based on ...

THE aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under 'things in the broadest possible sense' I include such radically different items as not only 'cabbages and kings', but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve su...

Everyone experiences bereavement but few give prior thought to it. Knowing something about the possible reactions and repercussions of bereavement is the best preparation for it.