Editorial: Mixed Blessings

Mixed Blessings. Intensive Care for Newborns

Newborn intensive care, a relatively new medical specialty, has recently become a very controversial one. It involves extremely complicated and expensive technology applied to cases of often uncertain benefit and considerable emotional investment. Many difficult issues remain unresolved, including whether newborn intensive care is an appropriate allocation of increasingly limited medical resour...

Ethics , Health Policy and ( Anti - ) Aging : Mixed Blessings

Intuitionism - Counting its Blessings

A brief survey of the impact of intuitionistic logic and mathematics on modern practice is presented. The main influence is via the so-called “BHK interpretation” (or “proof interpretation”). By somewhat relaxing the conditions on the notion of proof the familiar notions of ‘realizability’, ‘Curry-Howard isomorphism’ etc. are motivated. Also some attention is paid to the characteristic process ...

Some Strategic Y2K Blessings

Future system development and management efforts must strive to institutionalize these gains and provide ongoing, incremental improvement in these areas. With the growth of e-commerce and further socioeconomic reliance on IT, the organizations that have achieved these gains will be well positioned to outdistance those who were less aggressive. Figure 1 depicts the silver linings and competitive...

The mixed blessings of self-knowledge in behavioral prediction: enhanced discrimination but exacerbated bias.

Four experiments demonstrate that self-knowledge provides a mixed blessing in behavioral prediction, depending on how accuracy is measured. Compared with predictions of others, self-knowledge tends to decrease overall accuracy by increasing bias (the mean difference between predicted behavior and reality) but tends to increase overall accuracy by also enhancing discrimination (the correlation b...