Computer Science is Alive and Well on Planet Earth

Well-Being on Planet Earth

The Gallup World Poll allows a look at how humanity is flourishing, based on the answers of survey respondents sampled from across the globe. Several conclusions are clear. First, how people are doing depends enormously on the society in which they live, and nations vary from doing very well to extremely poorly. In terms of subjective well-being, nations vary greatly, in both judgments of overa...

Distributed Earth Science Validation Centers for Mission to Planet Earth

Causal understanding in reasoning about the world p. 13 How to make intelligent digital libraries p. 27 Some methodology and representation problems for the semantics of prosaic application domains p. 39 Recognizing credible experts in inaccurate databases p. 46 Fuzzy logic or Lukasiewicz logic: a clarification p. 56 Logic systems for approximate reasoning: via rough sets and topology p. 65 Sig...

The impact bias is alive and well.

A substantial body of research on affective forecasting has found that people often overestimate the affective impact of future events. Levine, Lench, Kaplan, and Safer (2012) argued that whereas people may overestimate the duration of their emotional responses, they do not overestimate the initial intensity of these responses as much as previous research has suggested. We suggest that Levine e...

The Yentl syndrome is alive and well.

More women than men die annually from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in the developed world. This represents a reversal of fortune from previous decades and places women firmly as the new majority now impacted. Notably, the adverse IHD gender gap is the widest in relatively young women, where myocardial infarction (MI) mortality is 2-fold higher in women under 50 years compared with age-matched ...

Authority Control is Alive and ... Well ? Richard