Artificial Intelligence: What it Was, and What it Should Be?

Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, and What It Should Be

What Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the current time is not what it should be. The mainstream works in the field are on domain-specific problems and solutions. Instead, AI should focus on general-purpose systems that are adaptive to its environment, and can work with insufficient knowledge and resources. AI in this sense is unified with Cognitive Science at a general level, with the latter ...

Corporate Democracy – What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Should Be

2 See, e.g., Stephen Deane, The ISS Institute for Corporate Governance, Majority Voting in Director Elections: From the Symbolic to the Democratic, at 1 (noting that advocates who favor majority voting in director elections view the issue as a “question of democratic principle” and, if implemented, majority voting “would transform the current symbolic process, in which shareholders can withhold...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

The ancestral human diet: what was it and should it be a paradigm for contemporary nutrition?

Awareness of the ancestral human diet might advance traditional nutrition science. The human genome has hardly changed since the emergence of behaviourally-modern humans in East Africa 100-50 x 10(3) years ago; genetically, man remains adapted for the foods consumed then. The best available estimates suggest that those ancestors obtained about 35% of their dietary energy from fats, 35% from car...

Tigecycline: what is it, and where should it be used?

Tigecycline is the first glycylcycline to be launched and is one of the very few new antimicrobials with activity against Gram-negative bacteria. It evades acquired efflux and target-mediated resistance to classical tetracyclines, but not chromosomal efflux in Proteeae and Pseudomonas. Cmax+ is low, but tissue penetration is excellent and the compound has shown equivalence to imipenem/cilastati...