Dangerous Encounters, Ambiguous Frontiers

Configuring the caller in ambiguous encounters: volunteer handling of calls to Samaritans emotional support services.

This paper discusses volunteer strategies for handling and assessing calls to Samaritans emotional support services for the suicidal and despairing. It presents findings from the qualitative components of a two-year mixed methods study based on an online caller survey, branch observations and interviews with volunteers and callers throughout the U.K. A thematic analysis of the qualitative data ...

Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription

We conduct a two-phase laboratory experiment, separated by several weeks. In the first phase, we conduct urn games intended to measure ambiguity aversion on a representative population of undergraduate students. In the second phase, we invite the students back with four different solicitation treatments, varying in the ambiguity of information regarding the task and the payout of the laboratory...

Do Ambiguous Reconstructions Always Give Ambiguous Images?

In many cases self-calibration is not able to yield a unique solution for the 3D reconstruction of a scene. This is due to the occurrence of critical motion sequences. If this is the case, an ambiguity is left on the reconstruction. In this paper it is derived under which conditions correct novel views can be generated from ambiguous reconstructions. The problem is first approached from a theor...

Close encounters.

IN THE November issue of Nursing Management, airline pilot Chris Mann asked: 'Safety Culture? What safety culture?' ( Mann 2004 ). His paper summarises the training undertaken in the aviation industry particularly in relation to human factors, in recognition of their part in aviation safety. He posed the following questions of the NHS.

Dangerous Drugs